AN ALLIANCE of some of the nation's biggest industry organisations is preparing to spend millions of dollars on a campaign to destroy the Gillard government's plans to put a price on carbon.

The group, which has called itself the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance, is prepared to spend at least $10 million on its campaign, which will mimic that which was run against the mining tax a year ago.

On a cloudy day ... industrial sites in Botany and Meadowbank, with the cityscape as a backdrop. Credit:Dallas Kilponen

The alliance's strategy document, seen by the Herald, lists its key objective as to ''build public opposition to the carbon tax so that it is either substantially modified or fails to pass the Parliament''.

A campaign involving television, radio, print, the internet and social media would begin within seven days of the government announcing the final details of its scheme and ''would run until the likely parliamentary consideration of the legislation in late 2011''.