INDUSTRY groups are backing BHP's push for rapid action to put a price on carbon emissions as the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has indicated Labor is no longer insisting on an emissions trading scheme and is now prepared to consider a direct carbon tax.
Big business has been quick to ''deal itself in'' to the complex climate policy negotiations in the unwieldy minority government, with the electricity generation industry joining the Business Council of Australia and BHP's chief executive, Marius Kloppers, to demand a resolution to Australia's political impasse on carbon pricing.
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