Carbon pricing

Implications for the Mining sector

Despite record profits in 2010, the Australian mining industry has come under increasing cost pressure with rising operating costs, a high Australian dollar and the looming Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT).

In our latest publication focused on the potential impacts of the introduction of a carbon price in Australia, we explore the mining industry and the new challenges the sector faces with an additional cost burden on the horizon following the release of the Federal Government's Clean Energy Future Plan and Exposure Draft of the Clean Energy Bill 2011.

This in depth analysis includes:

• the facts of the Plan
• specific impacts for the mining sector
• reactions from across the industry
• an in depth Q&A with PwC's Energy, Utilities & Mining partner, Michael Happell, providing insight into some of these key issues
• accounting implications
• key next steps mining businesses can take to ensure they are well placed with the transition to a carbon price economy.

If you would like assistance working through carbon price response strategies for your particular organisation, please contact one of our mining experts on the right hand side of this webpage.

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Carbon pricing - Implications for the Mining sector

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