Action group appeals against biomass power plant tariff action
Action group appeals against biomass power plant tariff action
By Andrew Walker and Alan Mackenzie
3 March 2015
The “Save the Amazon” campaign (SOTA) filed a petition with the State Court of Appeal (SCA) in Costa Rica to block the recent state power tariffs passed by a Costa Rican legislature. The tariff, which is scheduled to go into effect this week, caps the amount of wood pulp that an electricity company can charge Amazon customers. It is the latest in a series of similar state power tariffs introduced in the past decade that have restricted domestic power production and sharply increased the price consumers must pay for electricity.
The SOTA petition argues that the carbon taxes introduced under Costa Rica’s new Constitution violate international law. These include the Kyoto Protocol, which commits countries to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The p에볼루션 카지노etition also seeks an injunction to stop the installation of the wind farm at Amazon’s new Lago Agrias site, which produces 1.8 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to an additional 30 million tons a year.
The petition was filed just days after the SOTA sent a statement to the International Energy Agency urging o제천출장마사지 제천안마ther nations to enact similar measures. It called the current legal uncertainty “a recipe for chaos for the developing world,” and highlighted the o용인출장안마대전 출장 안마ngoing uncertainty over how the EU energy policies would work if they were adopted by other nations in the future.
The SOTA has repeatedly called on international governments to support domestic renewable energy targets, including the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), because it will save large amounts of money in costs for countries at the moment. The European Union set up the ETS through its Green Budget Initiative in 2009. The ETS will help nations in their transition to renewable energy in many cases. It is expected to cost approximately EUR 2.1 trillion over the next 30 years. But the SOTA argues that the ETS is not an effective tool because it is difficult for governments to predict when and how energy prices will fall, and that the energy market is currently too complex for governments to properly manage the flow of carbon emissions.
The SOTA argues that the ETS has also not been able to produce stable price signals. “SOTA is against the implementation of the ETS so that the ETS could be implemented quickly and without interference from external parties,” the petition says. Costa Rican officials, in support of the tariffs, did not respond to questions about the SOTA’s arguments against the ETS, even though Costa Rica plans to introduce a bill of its own t