Palmer will help axe carbon tax, but courts Al Gore in push for ETS
Flanked by former US vice-president Al Gore, Mr Palmer revealed on Wednesday that his Palmer United Party (PUP) would back the repeal of the carbon tax, but would vote to stop the Government axing key climate change bodies.
According to abc.net.au, Palmer said his party also wanted to see the creation of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) similar to the one proposed by former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd.
But this version would “only become effective once Australia’s main trading partners also take action to establish such a scheme”, Mr Palmer said.
(Maybe I’m missing something here, but to me, an “emissions trading scheme” sounds suspiciously like a carbon tax hiding under a different name.)
Mr Palmer, who has previously been cynical about the effects of global warming, said “climate change is a global problem and it must have a global solution”.
He told ABC’s Lateline program that his road-to-Damascus moment came after speaking with Mr Gore.
“Meeting with the vice-president, someone who is a world authority on that, was able to enlighten me on a number of aspects about climate change which I wasn’t fully familiar with and the importance of it for all Australians,” Mr Palmer said.
Has Palmer played Gore for a fool or is it the other way around?
The baffling Gore and Palmer show
http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/06/25/4033168.htm
Thanks to Kenneth Morgan for these links