BHP, RIO, Xstrata try to control Australian govt on carbon tax
Rio Tinto warns Gillard over carbon tax, The Age, Peter Ker, September 8, 2011 MULTINATIONAL miner Rio Tinto has intensified its opposition to Australia’s carbon tax, urging Prime Minister Julia Gillard to go back to the drawing board and start again on carbon policy….Rio has previously claimed the tax would penalise trade-exposed industries and deter investment in resource projects, but yesterday Mr Peever stepped up the attack by urging the government not to proceed with the tax in its present form…….
Rio was one of three big mining companies – alongside BHP Billiton and Xstrata – invited by Ms Gillard to help shape Labor’s revised mining tax last year.
The government plans to introduce the carbon tax to Parliament next week, and Ms Gillard said its opponents would not stop the bill winning passage through the hung parliament. ”Everybody in the Parliament knows from the statements that have been made by parliamentarians that the legislation has sufficient support to get through and it will,” she said. ”I do expect, as we see constantly from the opposition, that we’ll see all sorts of wrecking tactics, but we will work our way through and ensure that the legislation does go through.”…..
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