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Friday, August 14, 2009

Australian Senate Rejects Rudd’s Cap and Trade Emissions Plan

Australia’s Senate rejected the government’s climate-change legislation, forcing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to amend the bill or call an early election.

Senators voted 42 to 30 against the law, which included plans for a carbon trading system similar to one used in Europe. Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, was proposing to reduce greenhouse gases by between 5 percent and 15 percent of 2000 levels in the next decade.

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2 comments:

  1. l wannabe man this Wong is, l thought she was when l first saw her on telly,
    Climate Change Global Warming Nazi in truth.
    l remember a Nazi Chef named Wong with a real expolsive attitude on wine...except towards me in da house.
    :)

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  2. Perhaps this one about wong should be rejected Andrew.

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