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| Subject: OZschwitz: Traders furious at a decision to charge them for using outdoor gas heaters Sun May 22, 2011 11:59 pm | |
| Small business owners in Melbourne's inner east are furious at a decision to charge them for using outdoor gas heaters.
In an effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the City of Yarra resolved this week to charge traders who use heaters in footpath dining areas an annual fee of $105.
''The fee is aimed at discouraging the use of outdoor gas heaters,'' the council said in a statement to traders. ''Council is concerned that outdoor heaters use up a lot of energy, and that their use does not help community efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.''
But traders call the fee a revenue-raising exercise from a council that is ''anti-business'' and plan a protest rally outside Richmond Town Hall early next month.
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