has the world gone mad?
we live in an age where it is generally accepted that climate change is real, a lot of countries are looking at reducing carbon & increasing renewable forms of energy, & we appear to be more conscious than ever about looking after our natural resources & environment
In Australia ( a land with LOTS of sunshine, open spaces & wind ) our Prime Minister recently stated that he opposed renewable energy due to the fact he found wind turbines unsightly. He also made a BIG point about reducing R-E-D-U-C-I-N-G ( his words ) our renewable targets.
Yesterday, his Environment Minister gave Federal approval to a massive open cut mine ( 3 pits, mine area 35sq km ) on the Liverpool Plains in New South Wales, some of the best quality country in Australia, maybe even the world.
Local farmers have been fighting this for about 8 years, when an exploration licence was granted by the then Labour State government & the corrupt Minister Ian McDonald.
This area is deep alluvial black soil country, with very high quality & yielding water aquifers, inter connected with the riverine & floodplain systems. The actual mining area is not on the black soil, but on the sandstone ridge country. These sandstone ridges are the recharge zones for the aquifers.
The miner involved is Shenua, a massive Chinese government owned company.
Australia has recently signed a Free Trade Deal with China, so presumably Chinese labour can be brought in to build / operate the mine cheaper than the locals
Our local Federal Member of Parliament is also the Federal Minister for Agriculture & he is powerless ( apparently ) to do anything about it
China's stock market is in freefall , hard commodity prices are dropping & the world is moving away from coal
Is it just me?
Or has the world ( or our part of it anyway ) gone completely stark raving mad????????????
Has The World Gone Mad ????
we live in an age where it is generally accepted that climate change is real, a lot of countries are looking at reducing carbon & increasing renewable forms of energy, & we appear to be more conscious than ever about looking after our natural resources & environment
In Australia ( a land with LOTS of sunshine, open spaces & wind ) our Prime Minister recently stated that he opposed renewable energy due to the fact he found wind turbines unsightly. He also made a BIG point about reducing R-E-D-U-C-I-N-G ( his words ) our renewable targets.
Yesterday, his Environment Minister gave Federal approval to a massive open cut mine ( 3 pits, mine area 35sq km ) on the Liverpool Plains in New South Wales, some of the best quality country in Australia, maybe even the world.
Local farmers have been fighting this for about 8 years, when an exploration licence was granted by the then Labour State government & the corrupt Minister Ian McDonald.
This area is deep alluvial black soil country, with very high quality & yielding water aquifers, inter connected with the riverine & floodplain systems. The actual mining area is not on the black soil, but on the sandstone ridge country. These sandstone ridges are the recharge zones for the aquifers.
The miner involved is Shenua, a massive Chinese government owned company.
Australia has recently signed a Free Trade Deal with China, so presumably Chinese labour can be brought in to build / operate the mine cheaper than the locals
Our local Federal Member of Parliament is also the Federal Minister for Agriculture & he is powerless ( apparently ) to do anything about it
China's stock market is in freefall , hard commodity prices are dropping & the world is moving away from coal
Is it just me?
Or has the world ( or our part of it anyway ) gone completely stark raving mad????????????
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