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Greenhouse * Australia - Measures 'crippling' truckers
The trucking industry says it is being crippled by competing and inconsistent greenhouse gas abatement policies
Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald -November 27, 2007: -- Australian Trucking Association chief executive Stuart St Clair said the introduction of a national emissions trading scheme must result in the elimination of the costly patchwork of half-measures... The association wants federal, state and territory measures to be rationalised... Mr St Clair said legal firm DLA Phillips Fox had warned in a recent bulletin that higher road use charges, intended to increase the cost of carbon emissions, could soon be the norm... Net greenhouse gas emissions from trucks totalled 14.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2005... That represented only 2.5 per cent of the national total and only 18 per cent of emissions from the transport sector, Mr St Clair said...
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