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POPSStaff Who Emit Over CO2 Limit Have Pay Docked
The maximum that an employee can earn or be fined has been capped at 100, but is likely to rise once staff have grown accustomed to the idea. WSP, the global engineering consultancy, has been conducting the rationing scheme among 80 of its British employees for almost two years. In the first year the overall carbon footprint of participants fell by 10 per cent. The company is discussing its scheme with several FTSE 100 companies. Related Links Passengers face new tax to halt rise in air travel Storing CO2 could be Britain’s next boom industry The idea of personal quotas for carbon emissions is being advocated by the thinktank the Institute for Public Policy Research. Everyone would be given a number of free “credits”, to buy gas and electricity for their homes, fuel for cars and plane tickets for holidays. Those who did not use all their credits could sell the excess to people who used more fossil fuels.Those who exceed their ration pay a fine for every . . .
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POPSFree Carbon Offsets Seven people have been arrested and 27 residence and office locations were raided by police over a suspected 38 million pounds (62.8 million dollars) fraud involving the trade of carbon credits to avoid paying the value-added tax (VAT) which is required in the UK. Read more here
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POPSNOT EVIL JUST WRONG After they are Finished Crashing the American Dollar The new Dollar The Amero will be Back by nothing else but the carbon credit.. the Carbon credit how the world is going to be forced to pay the Elites for nothing
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POPSGlobal Warming Scam - Roger Revelle and Al Gore Are the oil companies conspiring to keep us addicted to fossil fuels? No doubt. But Al Gore never talks about that, does he? Instead he talks about carbon taxes which keeps the oil companies in business - and further impoverishes an already struggling world population. Here's the real story on Al Gore and the so called global warming menace The founder of the Weather Channel has a message for you. Global warming is a scam - and Al Gore knows it. Fossil fuels are a bad idea, but there is no evidence they're responsible for the warming of the planet.
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POPS“Russ Carnahan voted to … close us and other … small business” David McArthur, vice president of the 52-year-old family operation, a Gateway City institution, is one of a growing number of business owners and taxpayers nationwide who are mobilizing against the so-called cap-and-trade bill . . . "We make (our product) with electricity, we bake it with gas, we refrigerate and freeze it with electricity and we distribute it with gas and oil," said McArthur, who said he worries that high prices could cost his company up to $15,000 a year in an industry with a very tight margin for profit. The legislation requires that the country reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020. Big energy plants and producers would have a cap on emissions like carbon dioxide, but could purchase "credits" from other companies that have met their reduction goals. The Obama administration says it will pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy. "Russ Carnahan voted to ... close us and other ... small business."
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POPSMan-Made Disaster (c) Auctioning of assigned amounts or emission allowances at the international and/or domestic level; ( More taxes ) (d) A uniform global levy on CO2 emissions, with exemption for LDCs; ( More taxes ) (e) Levies on emissions from international aviation and maritime transport; (More taxes) (f) A tax on air travel; ( More taxes ) (g) A share of proceeds from market-based mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol. ( More taxes ) (h) A global levy on international monetary transactions. ( More taxes ) Gee, I detect pattern. Well, that should help pay off the country-killing deficit caused by the Obama Depression Budget. Investors Business Daily calls the EPA's finding -- that carbon dioxide is toxic, and therefore should be regulated -- "Man-Made Disaster" http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=330822830678035
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POPSCap and Trade H.R. 2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 Contact your Senator here: http://www.theorator.com/senate.html Phone numbers are listed first, followed by fax and local district. NOTE: You CAN call other State senators as long as you say you are from a City in their State, so ensure you are armed with a city and zip code of the State you are calling. Tell them to vote NO for Cap and Trade H.R. 2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
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POPSAl Gore Enrichment Act
other businesses that stand to profit from greenhouse gas regulation? If you have not contributed significant amounts of your own capital to these businesses, what, then, is your role in them? Are you a lobbyist? Are you the face of their public relations efforts? Is your job to run around scaring politicians and the public into enacting greenhouse gas regulation? 4. Is Kleiner-Perkins’ business plan to have you press for legislation and regulation favorable to its clients in order to make them more attractive and available for sale to the public, at which time Kleiner-Perkins would cash out, leaving the public invested in not-ready-for-prime-time companies that have dubious financial prospects and that are dependent on taxpayer subsidies? 5. Your co-founder with Generation Investment Management is former Goldman Sachs partner David Blood. Goldman Sachs is lobbying for global warming legislation and is a part owner of the Chicago Climate Exchange, where carbon credits from cap
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POPSCalifornia To Ban TV: But Not For Good Reason (like there’s nothing decent to watch) Of course, television sets, just as with dishwashers and refrigerators, are getting more efficient all the time, a process that the free marker excels at on its own - at least it used to, before the age of AIG, bailouts, and executive compensation caps. But, rather than let nature and consumer choice take its course, the CEC must be seen as acting. For bureaucracies that don’t act are soon acted upon by politicians. Unsaid is the fact that, if anything decent were being produced for television, emissions would skyrocket. On this basis NBC should make out like a bandit with a carbon cap-and-trade program since their sole show in the prime-time top-20 Nielsen ratings is rated an energy-saving #20, translating weak viewership into an Earth-friendly virtue, and a few million tons of valuable carbon credits.
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POPSOn Global Warming: Follow The Money Indeed! (UNEP), a division of the U.N. that has grown into a bureaucratic monstrosity with an annual budget of $136 million. Mr. Strong left his post at UNEP in the 1970s but kept his ecological credentials and helped organize a 1992 environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro, which become the forerunner of the Kyoto Accords. While Strong has spent a lifetime parlaying his UN contacts into business associations, nowhere has he done so more successfully than with his ecological “credentials.” Recently Strong has been spending most of his time in China, where he’s been linked, among other things, to planned attempts to market Chinese-made automobiles in North America. But his presence there raises some awkward questions for Russell and Rosett: “For one thing, China, while one of the world’s biggest producers of industrial pollution, has been profiting from the trading of carbon emissions credits – thanks to heavily politicized U.N.-backed environmental deals engineered by Strong in the 1990s.”
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POPSFarmers Want Obama to Make Carbon a Cash Crop Under Climate Law Businesses adopting clean-energy methods like wind or solar power could sell permits for a profit. Rural Votes Crucial Agricultural offsets may be crucial to attracting enough votes from rural lawmakers to pass climate-change legislation, said Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, a South Dakota Democrat. “We have to insist that agriculture has a seat at the table,” she said. Republican congressional leaders have likened Obama’s cap- and-trade proposal to a tax increase on energy, and the plan may pit coal-producing states against other areas. Farm organizations are also divided. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the biggest farm group, has opposed cap-and-trade plans, saying they would raise fuel and fertilizer costs. The National Farmers Union likes the idea and is lobbying for a slice of the carbon market.
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POPS Prophet Algore Brings Commandments From Mother Gaia I. Thou shalt not drive an SUV II. Thou shalt not run thy air-conditioner III. Thou shalt not exceed thy carbon credits IV.Thou shalt not consider nuclear power V. Thou shalt use only one square of TP VI.Thou shalt sell thy homes and live in caves VII. Thou shalt eat only tofu VIII. Thou shalt honor thy Mother Gaia IX. Thou shalt abhor deodorant X. Thou shalt elect Democrats Compliments of SK.
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POPSChina Dams Reveal Flaws in Climate-Change Weapon "....That bottom line — some 450,000 tons of global-warming gases each year — would be added to RWE's permitted emissions if it buys the Xiaoxi credits, at a current annual cost of $8 million. And such calculations will be repeated at 37 other Chinese hydro projects where RWE will buy credits. All told, the 38 are expected to produce more than 16 million CDM credits by 2012, legitimizing 16 million tons of emissions in Germany, equivalent to more than 1 percent of annual German emissions. At today's low market prices, those credits would be worth some $300 million, paid to Chinese developers and presumably billed to German electricity customers, who by 2007 were already paying more than double the U.S. average rate per kilowatt-hour."
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POPSObama Inauguration Sets Record for Private Jets We all know none of this talk about "cutting back", "carbon foot-print", economy-helping stuff is for *Them*!!! It's for us lower-middle class types who have never seen a private jet, let alone ride in one. I think there might have been enough hot air in Washington today, though, to have raised the climate average up at least 3 degrees. Hypocrites.
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POPSArctic Cold Grips Nation Oh, the anticipation! Inauguration day. Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey. Shivering behind the freezing Obama is his "energy czar", a committed socialist who fervently believes in man made global warming. There is ice forming on her coat. All the carbon credits in the world can't warm her. The adulating crowd of negros in the Mall, eagerly awaiting their Obama checks are getting frostbite.
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POPSGoogle responds to carbon cost claims continues: In Google's repudiatory blog post, Mr Hölzle trumpets a raft of energy-saving initiatives the search giant has recently supported, from charitable arm Google.org's $45 million investment in clean energy technology last year to the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, founded in 2007 to " the energy consumed by computers in half by 2010 — reducing global CO2 emissions by 54 million tons per year."
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POPSGlobal Justice Ecology Project DENOUNCES Environmental Defense According to a recent Forbes report, the 11 largest environmental groups have combined annual revenues of about $1.8 billion and own billions of dollars of assets. The Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) essentially accused Environmental Defense (ED) of collaborating with the enemy -- big businesses that want cap-and-trade global warming legislation. Noting that her father was one of ED’s founders, GJEP head Rachel Smolker said she was now “ashamed” of ED because it advocated cap-and-trade. Smolker said that the European version of cap-and-trade, the Kyoto Protocol, had “utterly failed” to reduce emissions and served “only to provide huge profits for the world’s most polluting industries.” “Instead of protecting the environment, ED now seems primarily concerned with protecting corporate bottom lines. I can hear my father rolling over in his grave,” Smolker said.
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POPSLooking for Carbon in Renewable Energy Renewable Energy Credits are designed to spur the development of renewable energy by selling the rights to its environmental benefits. Carbon credits often aim to do much the same thing. Can the two get along? The Ecosystem Marketplace examines the role of RECs in a carbon economy.
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