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Truck or train * Australia - Transport chiefs fight for handouts
A battle between road and rail has broken out as negotiations continue over the best way to tackle climate change
Sydney,New South Wales,Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald, by Cathy Alexander -August 29, 2008: -- ... Thirty of the country's transport chiefs met the Federal Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong, in Parliament House yesterday to discuss climate change... Railway representatives told a transport forum yesterday they were a clean, green transport mode which deserved a major nation-wide boost... But trucking groups asked for more protection under emissions trading to shield them - and consumers - from higher costs... Emissions trading is due to start in 2010, but Bryan Nye, chief executive of the Australasian Railway Association, said the scheme would favour the trucking industry too much...
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