Methinks they protest too much!

Combet reassures business ahead of meeting

AAP


"Climate Change Minister Greg Combet says the government is making a genuine effort to consult business over the carbon price, but he expects "argy bargy" until the final details are settled. Corporate leaders have been publicly critical of the business round table - due to meet again on Friday - set up by Mr Combet to consult over the government's planned emissions trading scheme (ETS).
BlueScope Steel chairman Graham Kraehe has described it as a "sham".
  And Minerals Council of Australia chief Mitch Hooke said this week he feared industry compensation would be based on the previously dumped Rudd government ETS. Mr Combet said the government was committed to holding "detailed talks" with industry over the scheme. "We are making a genuine effort to consult with business," he told Sky News on Thursday".

It seems to me that Kraehe and Hooke have their jobs on the line for not preparing for the inevitable carbon price. I can see the Board and shareholders meetings being told we did everything we could to stop the carbon price. What they should be telling their Board and shareholders is we never had a Plan B!