'Big business stalls crucial carbon tax', 18 Jun 2015:…South Africa’s…treasury is finalising a carbon tax. First announced in 2010, it…was intended to change consumer and producer behaviour by making dirtier forms of production more expensive…The tax was supposed to come into force…this year…“The tax is being undone by bullying,” a carbon consultant said...Business has the resources and power to be belligerent,”…Saliem Fakir…head of the Worldwide Fund for Nature’s living planet unit [said] “Government may be trying to do the right thing with the tax, but it is faced with companies…threatening to cut jobs or divest…a pretty strong lever with which to bully government.”...Shaun Nel…spokesperson for the Energy Intensive Users Group, denied that business was bullying the government…He said big business had merely told the treasury that the tax would make companies uncompetitive and force them to move overseas… “…That’s not a threat, it’s a fact.”…[Refers to ArcelorMittal, Eskom and Sasol]