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Kyoto Fines

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  • 05-03-2006 4:09pm
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    Capt'n Midnight
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    http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIPol.nsf/wvNavView/Climate+Change?OpenDocument&Lang=
    EVERY DAY IN IRELAND 48 Kg of greenhouse gas emissions are produced per person.
    ...
    Under the Kyoto Protocol Ireland agreed to a target of limiting its greenhouse gas emissions to 13% above 1990 levels by the first commitment period 2008-2012 as part of its contribution to the overall EU target. Ireland ratified the Kyoto Protocol on the 31 May 2002, along with the EU and all other Member States, and is internationally legally bound to meet the challenging greenhouse gas emissions reduction target.
    So 2Kg an hour. How many hours will it take to get to your weight, how many times a year ??


    http://www.constructireland.ie/articles/0207twincrises.php
    Moreover, European Commission restrictions mean that permits can only be bought to cover emissions up to 10 per cent above the target. After that, the country will be fined €40 per tonne for every tonne of carbon dioxide in excess of the limit between 2005 and 2008, and €100 a tonne from then until 2012.

    A €100 per tonne fine would increase the cost of a kilowatt-hour of electricity from Ireland 's two new peat stations by 14.3 cents, from Moneypoint, a coal-burning station by 9.2 cents, and by 4.6 cents from a typical gas-fired station. But would energy users pay these fines through their electricity and fossil fuel bills, or would the cost, which the economist Peter Bacon estimates could increase to $1,300 million a year, be carried by the taxpayer, thus subsidising energy consumption and preventing the market telling people to find ways of using less power?

    http://www.epa.ie/OurEnvironment/ClimateChange/ghgnotes/FileUpload,8834,en.doc
    Page 4
    1990 emissions - 55,614 Transport = 5,159.46
    2004 emissions - 68,698 Transport = 12,557.76

    http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/fuellabel/environment.html
    For every litre of petrol used, 2.5 kilograms of carbon dioxide is released from the exhaust.
    €100 per tonne = 400L of petrol = so 25c Per Litre


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