carbon tax is already successful

Meatworks may shut Queensland plant for three weeks to avoid carbon tax

"A MAJOR meatworks could shut one of its Queensland plants for three weeks to side-step a carbon tax bill expected to cost millions. Teys Australia Meat Group is one of 295 names on a preliminary list of companies to be slugged the $23 a tonne carbon tax from July 1 after its carbon emissions were estimated as being above the threshold of 25,000 tonnes a year."

This is exactly what the Labor and Green government is after. This is the main aim, to close Carbon Dioxide intensive industries. If you draw a line in the sand, industry needs to work out how to get under the line to avoid the tax.


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