| From Canberratimes.com.au: Within days of its release, the Treasury modelling of the economic implications of the Rudd Government's emissions trading scheme has come under attack.
The impact of an estimated weekly increase in energy price of about $7 for domestic consumers has been criticised as being too great for the poorer sectors of the Australian community. And energy experts and engineers claim that the economic penalties of the scheme on both domestic and industrial energy users have been grossly underestimated..... Full Article: Source
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