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: Environmental Legal BlogsPM delays emissions trading scheme as inconvenient political truth | The Australian
By STEPHEN HOLZER
AFTER months of avoiding even mentioning an emissions trading scheme Kevin Rudd has formally dumped Labor's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme until at least after the next election, and possibly the one after that.
After months of refusing to defend or promote the answer to the greatest moral and economic challenge ?of our time? or to propose an alternative the Prime Minister has simply put it off as an inconvenient political truth and tried to blame the Coalition and the Greens for obstruction in the Senate.
The simple fact of the matter is that Rudd over-politicised and over-dramatised the importance of an ETS, put all his political capital into one policy that would split the Coalition and provide a campaign platform and had no answer when it failed.
Full post as published by Environmental Legal Blogs on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).
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