Comments on: Greenpeace: coal exports undermine Rudd climate case

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

What isn’t said here is that the increase in coal exports is mostly going to countries like China and India, where it is being used to generate power so that their people for the first time can utilise refrigerators tvs and air conditioners. Denying a Chinese family the right to keep food cool, or to watch tv is what Greenpeace’s proposal is suggesting. Alternate power sources are much more expensive than using coal, and rich Australians are better placed to pay the higher costs involved, rather than Chinese. China (and India) also has a lot of coal inside its own boarders - the reason they are buying it from Australia is that our coal is cheaper, and easier to ship to southern Chinese coastal cities, than mining it and transporting within China. The CPRS scheme will eventually increase the price of coal, encouraging the expansion of alternate power generation means. But for the moment, let the Chinese people buy their refrigerators…

By: Colin Jones

Colin Jones — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Clearly nothing has changed in Canberra. The Greenhouse mafia are still running the show and King Coal reigns supreme. Renewables come a very poor second with this mob witness Anna Bligh’s crowing over three new coal mines opening in Queensland and Brumby in Victoria bringing a new brown coal power plant on line. They just don’t get it about the hard decisions having to be made in the run up to 2010.
As for Peter Garrett. Don’t make me laugh.

By: Denis Goodwin

Denis Goodwin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Greenpeace conducting polling is an interesting concept, while they try their best to affect the political process they themselves continue to refuse to submit to any form of democracy within their own organisation. If Australia was governed in the same fashion as Greenpeace most decisions would be made or subject to approval outside Australia.