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WWF: ETS repeal to reduce renewable energy, increase prices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... won't meet renewable energy targets. Also, it's likely that electricity prices will increase not decrease of the carbon price is repealed. We're likely to have less wind energy - because it doesn't have any input costs, it's cheaper to run and that helps ...

Government drafts legislation to bring forward ETS timeline

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... bills to implement the changes required to bring forward the move to the flexible emissions trading scheme (ETS) carbon price period to 2014. Elisa de Wit, partner, Norton Rose Fulbright The changes proposed in Starting Emissions Trading on 1 July 2014 ...

ETS proposal put auctions, carbon hedging on tighter agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... quicker transition to lower emissions processes and technologies, Anderson said. "It also means that, because the carbon price is lower than it otherwise would have been, there will be less incentive to invest in lower emissions technologies," Anderson ...

Report: majority of businesses prefer floating carbon price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... aspects that is most controversial about the fixed price period is that it means that companies are paying a higher carbon price than the majority of other countries internationally. The other benefit of an emissions trading scheme is that it does give ...

Citi analyses impact of carbon price repeal on ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... miners and aluminium/alumina producers, Citi concluded. "Fugitive carbon emissions from coal mines currently incur a carbon price liability, as do emissions from power generation required for energy intensive aluminium smelters and alumina refineries," ...

Energy audit implementation yields cost savings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... and as a value add to our carbon and energy management services, has grown substantially," Smale said. See Also: Carbon price cost could have 0.1% impact on services sector

Companies advised to manage carbon price future uncertainty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... by the uncertainty of the carbon market's future - the unwinding of commercial arrangements around pass-through of carbon price costs, and long-term investments that hinge on the ongoing price of carbon and other measures in the government's Clean Energy ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... registered as quickly as possible and the credits issued as quickly as possible is to take advantage of the fixed carbon price period," she said. "The goal is to get the credits sold as close to the fixed carbon price as possible, whereas there's that ...

Woolworths poker machine vote fails, but push to continue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
Shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a motion demanding retailer Woolworths Limited to put $1 maximum bet limits on the poker machines they operate, but engagement advisers and active institutional investors say they do not believe the issue is dead ...

Fewer ASX companies see carbon price as a business risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
There has been a 12% drop in the number of listed Australian companies identifying a carbon price as a business risk, indicating their increasing comfort with the pricing regime, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project 's Australia and New Zealand ...