As it turns out, the plant's ongoing cost-cutting initiatives had already identified many millions of savings, so Diageo reduced the plant's target for total cost savings to allow for this massive carbon-reducing project.
Also in May 2012, Abbott visited food distributors PFD Food Services and said: "First of all, power costs will go up by an estimated 20% and then, of course, there's the carbon tax that's coming in on transport in 2014 if this government is re-elected and, finally, there's the massive carbon tax on refrigerants, which are vital to a business such as this".
Anyone apprised of the palaeolithic massacre of the African and Eurasian megafauna, or the extermination of the great beasts of the Americas, or the massive carbon pulse produced by deforestation in the Neolithic must be able to see that the weapon of planetary mass destruction is not the current culture, but humankind.
As we pointed out recently, there's a growing movement in the US towards sustainability, "or at least a notion of guilt-dressed-as-accountability," that's changing the way festivals approach the massive carbon footprints left behind by attendees.
These companies argue that if we could create smart grids and smart metering it would have massive carbon savings.
It seems as if everyone is assuming, without thinking about it, that there is massive carbon geoengineering going on.
Multibillion-dollar technological approaches to storing carbon, from pumping it into depleted oil wells to building massive carbon absorption systems, are grabbing people's imagination.
It also locks in the Government to a single wide-bodied aircraft, seating up to 285 people, with a correspondingly massive carbon footprint.
Similarly, biodiesel made from palm oil can have a massive carbon footprint – as well as serious negative consequences for biodiversity – if virgin rainforest is cleared to make way for the palm oil plantations.
We don't know, but we do know that massive carbon reserves were present in the ten-foot thick black soil of the historic grasslands of the Great Plains of the US.
