Shouldn't we be seriously protesting the announcement that the Qld. govt. is adding another $650 million to the $113 million it already promised in July to provide additional rail facilities for the coal industry?
Shouldn't there be proper public discussion about such huge subsidies out of the public purse to support very dirty private businesses?
Imagine what we could do to provide green power in this state with $763 million dollars? And imagine how much carbon would remain sequestered if it was not dug out of the ground and then transported to be burnt?
Surely, if this obscene misuse of our public funds was explained clearly to the electorate there would be a huge outcry. Seeing as a federal election is just around the corner - I think we should be shouting from the rooftops! Maybe we could then embarrass Federal Labor into leaning on the State govt. to really promote some serious action to prevent global warming and ecological collapse!
Please - any comments on how we could make this a live issue would be most welcome.
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Some coverage already...
By: sadimgnik (Registered ) on 15-10-2007 04:03
This issue was referred to, tangentially, in an interview on ABC NewsRadio last week.
Link's at http://www.abc.net.au/
newsradio/links/ ... scroll down to Thursday 11 Oct, and listen to the story headed "Qld Spends Millions to speed up coal..."
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