THE average Sydney hospital will be hit with a $120,000 annual carbon bill after the $23-a-tonne tax kicks in on July 1.
Local public schools will also be forced to come up with an extra $9000 a year on their power bills to pay their carbon liability.
Revised analysis from NSW Treasury dated May 4, 2012, reveals that NSW hospitals and schools would have the highest carbon tax liabilities of any government agency.
The new modelling of the carbon tax impact on government services included in tomorrow's state budget reveals NSW Health would have a $106 million carbon cost over the four-year forward estimates - or $27 million a year.
The budget will confirm a cumulative four-year carbon impact of $948 million.
With 220 hospitals across NSW, the average cost to power each hospital will increase by $120,000 a year, according to the budget papers.
Sheer madness!
ReplyDeleteIs Gillard masquerading as the Mad Hatter at the Tea Party?
More like the Red Queen
ReplyDeleteThe Labor lemmings know they haven't got a hope in hell of being re-elected so now they're vandalising our great country while they still can... Labor deserves the same fate as the dodo bird.
ReplyDeleteIf you take a look at http://tinyurl.com/ctpyhwd , you can see that we at the International Climate Science Coalition are collecting comments and ratings on the public remarks of Australian PM Julia Gillard about climate change as posted on the Herald Sun Website after her blogging session there 10 days ago. We will be sending the best comments to her office, the opposition and the media, as well as posting a summary of the most useful and interesting comments we get on our Website.
ReplyDeleteProblem is, we are getting too few comments to make this project a success. We are only up to 40 now on question #1, for example (about 35 from Australia) and about 80 votes. That leaves only 22,672,236 Australian left to comment as, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics:
“On 16 July 2012 at 05:45:48 PM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be: 22,672,273.”
Any ideas how to get significantly more than 1 millionth of your countrymen and women to comment and/or vote?
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Tom Harris
Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition
Ottawa, Canada
Most voting Australians are saving their angst for a mass comment session at the next election. The Labor Party will be left in tatters.
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