Norway said it would begin sending refugees who have Russian residency permits back to Russia without processing their asylum requests, arguing Russia was a safe country for them.
Under the law they are also able to sell these permits back to the clean energy regulator at any time, and the regulator is required to buy them.
And, as noted last year by the research firm Reputex, if those companies felt certain the carbon price was about to be repealed, they could take a risk and get in ahead of that vote and sell their permits back.
As people sell their shares to the upstream companies, the companies raise fuel prices, but return the value of the permits back to households.
In 2012, the state Public Utilities Commission voted to stop paying the majority of those proceeds form permits back to the three largest investor-owned utilities and instead start rebating its customers.
Undeterred, Cityfox got their permits back in place within a week and proceeded with their plan to throw a party at the Mirage a few weeks later with Detroit techno legend Richie Hawtin.
