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Scientist Steve Schneider Flips Fears
On the TV show In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age, Steven Schneider wonders whether mankind should intervene in staving off a coming ice age.  Watch the old footage on YouTube here. (24)

Australian Liberals Oppose Carbon Trading
Australian Opposition Leader (Malcolm Turnbull) will be forced to stare down more than two-thirds of the Liberal back bench if he proceeds with his plan to negotiate with the government over amendments to the emissions trading scheme before December’s Copenhagen climate change conference.   Read more here. (2)

Not Evil Just Wrong
Buy the DVD by clicking on the flashing icon above. (1)

Climate Change Summit in New York
In New York… Chinese leader Hu Jintao … U.S. President Barack Obama more or less shuffled climate control policy off into the great dreamscape of unattainable plans and long range objectives. Like equality for all and peace in our time …  Terence Corcoran, Financial Post (1)

Minerals Industry Now Complaining
THE [Australian] minerals industry has demanded [the Prime Minister] Kevin Rudd overhaul his proposed emissions trading system or risk smashing Australian jobs and the nation’s industrial competitiveness.  Read more here. (1)

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Farmland to Coal Mine: Darling Downs, Queensland

On 1st Sep 2008 the Queensland Government issued a Mineral Development Licence for coal to the wholly Queensland Government owned Tarong Energy Corporation over the iconic Haystack Road farmlands.

Harvest has begun on the Haystack Plain which has once again been favoured with a bountiful crop.  This may truly be our last harvest on this inherently fertile farmland. Tarong Energy, this week confirmed in writing that they will be taking their assets (our farmland) to the market in early 2009.

 

Minister for Mines & Energy Hon Geoff Wilson MP, last week stated that there is no need for new legislation to protect iconic farmland. Without new legislation there is no legal reason why Tarong Energy can not sell their asset (our farmland) to another company that will surely exploit the coal resource. At our expense the Queensland treasury will celebrate their one off win fall through the sale of their asset, (our farmland) but never again will the Haystack Plain produce a bountiful crop!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=669lsVI4Zrc

Website: www.coal4breakfast.com.au

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