By Paul Hemsley The head of NSW Shires Association, Ray Donald, has warned that state and federal governments need keep partisan bickering out of local government participation in the carbon tax. His warning follows a fresh policy brawl that erupted after federal Climate Change Parliamentary Secretary, Mark Dreyfus, accused state Liberal Party members of incorrectly […]
13 September, 2012
By Lilia Guan While Federal Government legislation doesn’t require local government to pay the Carbon Tax, councils will still need to calculate the amount of greenhouse emissions they generate for environmental and budgetary purposes. Technology vendor, Oracle’s JD Edwards APAC product management and strategy senior manager, Scott Ash told Government News there were […]
5 July, 2012
By Paul Hemsley Individual councils will be affected differently according to their own unique situations and rates may increase, according to the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA). ALGA President Genia McCaffery said councils are faced with challenges in working out the full impacts of the carbon price on their operations. “The introduction of the carbon […]
2 July, 2012
By Lilia Guan Hewlett-Packard has opened its Aurora Data Centre for business in Sydney, New South Wales. The centre is a facility, which supports a range of IT services, said vice president of Enterprise Services, HP South Pacific – Alan Bennett. He told Government News the facility will address the challenges faced […]
15 June, 2012
Local government associations have mixed reactions to how the federal government’s carbon tax will affect the cost of landfill waste. Municipal Association of Victoria president, Bill McArthur said there remain many unanswered questions about how prices should be set, despite councils appreciated Australian Government support. No other sector had been asked to get out the […]
5 June, 2012
By Councillor Bill McArthur, President of the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) This week’s State Budget cut of the $20 million Green Light Plan will hurt local councils trying to convert to energy efficient street lighting to reduce their carbon price exposure. MAVs condems the cut and called for the program to be […]
3 May, 2012
By Paul Hemsley The federal government will assist local councils to calculate their emissions and costs associated with the price of waste disposal. Council landfills that produce more than 25000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per annum will be liable, where Carbon Price Mechanism (CPM) costs will need to be factored. The Australian Local […]
1 May, 2012
Councils have identified energy efficiency as a key reform area being targeted across local government to help reduce carbon price impacts, greenhouse gas emissions and achieve cost savings for ratepayers. 146 representatives from 51 councils had recently participated in training to better understand their carbon emissions profile and how to reduce their carbon price exposure. […]
20 April, 2012
By Bill McArthur, MAV President The analysis of data from 38 councils showed the carbon price design had lowered the impacts on councils compared to the 2009 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Excluded from the carbon price are heavy on-road fuel use, legacy waste and smaller landfills within a prescribed distance of larger […]
29 March, 2012
Mayor of Baw Baw Shire Council, Diane Blackwood, said it will be imperative to negotiate a smooth transition to a carbon-constrained economy within the Latrobe Valley in the face of the forthcoming price on Carbon. “Our focus will be on job creation for Baw Baw residents as we respond to the challenge of structural […]
20 December, 2011
By Ruth Bayley, CEO of Australian Association of Procurement and Contract Management The impact of the carbon price on prices paid for goods and services is a risk. Like any contract or procurement risk, it is helpful to decide, at strategy level, how to manage the risk and put in place appropriate contract clauses and […]
25 November, 2011
By Paul Hemsley If local governments spend more in the short term, they will spend less in the long term, according to All-Energy Australia regional director, Boyd Dale. Mr Dale said local government procurement officers will have to change their purchasing behaviour in wake of the passage of the federal government’s Clean Energy Bill 2011 […]
23 November, 2011
The Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) has reiterated its call for the Federal Government to provide the property development industry with greater certainty in relation to its proposed Carbon Tax. In a letter to Treasurer Wayne Swan, the UDIA has repeated its call for detailed economic modelling on how the carbon pricing scheme […]
31 August, 2011
By Dr Steve Hodgkinson, research director at Ovum For most organisations this means that they will need to invest in systems to monitor operational processes and to analyse and report on their energy consumption, the energy efficiency of production facilities and offices and their overall CO2 emission outcomes. Putting aside the politics of […]
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