Environmental Group Lodges ACCC complaint about Carbon Tax Ad
Friday 30 March 2012 @ 2.54 p.m. | Trade & Commerce
TheTotal Environment Centre has lodged a complaint against New South Wales company Energy Watch, who acts as an energy broker for consumers and business stating that an ad deployed by it which includes an image of a Carbon Tax Collector on various media is "misleading and deceptive" within the meaning of the Australian Consumer Law s 18.
The ACCC has been advised the advertisement may be misleading because it blames rising electricity prices on the carbon tax. The advertisement shows a tax collector pushing a collection tin toward a pensioner and demanding cash and responding to objections by syaing: "You use electricity, don't you? Pay up."
The Total Environmental Centre says the campaign is misleading and is quoted by the ABC as saying: "The fact is 90 per cent of electricity price rises have absolutely nothing to do with the carbon price or renewable energy polices," . . .
This may be the first recourse to the Government $12.8 million grant to the ACCC last year to deal with false and misleading claims about price rises under the carbon tax.
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