However, given it will be rathermore difficult to cut fossil fuel emissions to zero than buy out the land-clearing rights from a few marginal farms in western NSW and pay someone to continue to burn the methane from landfills, let’s also consider a more realistic price of $50 per tonne. At such a price the annual cost of the ERF to the taxpayer would be $27.8 billion per annum…chart helps put this all into perspective relative to the last federal budget.