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Swagman

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Wed Jun 25, 2014, 05:42 AM Jun 2014

Al Gore joins Clive Palmer on climate

Source: news.com.au

Al Gore is joining Clive Palmer for his Parliament House press conference
THERE is a saying that politics makes strange bedfellows as was seen by the latest odd coupling in Canberra this afternoon.

Former US vice president Al Gore, who is a climate change activist, teamed up with mining magnate and newly minted MP Clive Palmer as he announced Palmer United Party members would support a bill to abolish the carbon tax.

But there were conditions attached, with Mr Palmer saying all savings had to be passed on to consumers and he also wanted the Abbott Government to replace its direct action plan with an emissions trading scheme.

However, he said he only wanted the ETS to become active when Australia’s major trading partners also moved to establish an ETS.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/the-pulse-live/politics-live-june-25-2014-20140625-3as02.html



# Clive Palmer is an Australian billionaire mining magnate (who is building the new Titanic 2) and his new PUP party now holds the balance of power in the Senate.
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