The Carmichael Project - money speaks

One for the Aussie members
The Carmichael project has been given the go ahead
i.e digging up and burning 2.3 BILLION tonnes of coal contained in the deposit at Queensland’s Galilee Basin – which would effectively cancel out the pledged annual emission reductions of Australia AND for New Zealand nearly TEN TIMES OVER? ( Not to mention addition dredging of additional and deeper shipping lanes and ports required – in the endangered great barrier reef ).

https://ejatlas.org/conflict/carmich...land-australia


Eta mods please could you move to science and enviroment .
Thank you

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I guess they are like us and need to get fuel from wherever they can. I can see both sides of this and a few years ago would be protesting against but now realise we have to do what's necessary if we want to carry on as we are.

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But the fuel , as I understand is to be exported to India .
I am sure that some members will correct me if I am wrong on this one.

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What annoys me is we pay a levy not just in our fuel bills but through business and services towards clean energy, so while we are 'taking water from a dam with a spoon' other are throwing it back in by the bucket load.

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You're completely correct.

In a few years from now, if the eco-warriors continue to get their way, I can imagine them shouting and screaming for completely the opposite of what they do now...

...when all the lights have gone out, when all transport systems have ground to a stop, when they can't bleat publicly because there is no television or newspapers...

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When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

Cree Indian prophecy .

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Pearls of wisdom.

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or caring pearls among swine?

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Hi

There is absolutely no need to burn coal as a fuel, it is not just the Carbon Dioxide, it is all the other stuff in it which causes issues.

Modern technology is such that clean electricity can be generated without producing pollution, which is surely the way forward.

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When other sources of energy have been exhausted, or have been proven to be inadequate for our needs, we may will be obliged to burn coal once again.

Many people don't seem to realise that the old ways of burning coal have been superseded and more efficient and less polluting methods are now available.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/informa...hnologies.aspx