Business Council of Australia in 2008: Irresponsiblity Unlimited

Thursday's press release from the Business Council of Australia let the cat out of the bag - business is not interested in doing anything about climate change and especially not interested in an effective national emissions trading scheme.

Ever since we set up our first crude commercial efforts at Botany Bay in the late 1700s, business big and small has been producing consumable goods and services laced with a good measure of pollution.
In 2008 this peak body still wants business to get a free ride to continue polluting with greenhouse gases.

BCA President Greig Gailey today launched the BCA paper, Modelling Success: Designing an ETS that Works, incorporating research from Port Jackson Partners Limited (PJPL) examining the impacts of the proposed emissions trading scheme on 14 businesses across a range of sectors including minerals processing, manufacturing, oil refining, coal mining and sugar milling.
Mr Gailey said: “In releasing its Green Paper the government has invited input into the final design of its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). The BCA fully supports adopting a comprehensive emissions trading scheme as the best way to reduce emissions, but getting the design detail right is critical”.
“The Green Paper puts Australia on a path to addressing climate change challenges through a partnership between business, government and the community. But the scheme must send the right signals to businesses,” he said.

The "right signals" Mr. Gailey speaks of are apparently for government to essentially change nothing, except for a bit of window dressing which would allow business to be 'paid' for doing nothing and fully pass on the supposed cost of this inaction to the consumer.

I'm predicting that the Business Council of Australia will suddenly discover the vital necessity of a nuclear power industry to ensure that they can all point to something which would allow, by misdirection, their 'big bag of nothing' to continue.

The 'study': Modelling Success: Designing an ETS that Works
Tip - page 3 starts the real laughs coming.