on 11-10-2020 08:01 AM
With the quiet Australians known for keeping their heads down and just getting on with their busy lives, it can often be hard to tell exactly what they’re thinking.
However, when they can speak anonymously, they are happy to vent - and one of the most popular places for them to do so is on the comment sections of online newspapers.
A perfect example is found at the bottom of the Daily Telegraph’s article titled:
The article spoke about how Matt Kean said climate change was the ‘biggest challenge that will face our society and our economy in our lifetime’ and that gas was a ‘hugely expensive’ way of generating electricity – a complete contradiction of Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s most recent policy prescriptions.
So, what did the humble Telegraph reader have to say about all this nonsense? Well
lets take a quick look.
‘How the hell do the liberal party think Matt Kean is a good representative for us?’
‘How on earth does a green zealot hold the position of Energy Minister in a centre right Government? I cannot think of a more inappropriate portfolio appointment than Matt Kean’
‘This blokes in the wrong party’
‘This bloke Kean is either stupid or is being deliberately obtuse.
Wind & solar are only competitive because of huge subsidies and government mandates.
If the market was left to determine the best and cheapest energy without government interference I'll bet my back teeth coal & nuclear would be the choice.’
‘Out of step with his party and out of step with the public. How many times do we have to go to an election and vote these Greenies down before they respect our vote?’
That’s about right.
Poll after poll have shown that mainstream Australians are not suffering from ‘climate anxiety’ like billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, ‘scientist’ Tim Flannery and Mr Kean.
In fact, they have far more important things to worry about such as Australia’s increasing cost of living – a direct product of climate change hysteria undermining the efficiency and stability of what was our key industrial competitive advantage – cheap power.
The environment and climate change came next.
Can the people make it any clearer?
It is time Mr Kean focus on what his constituents want as opposed to what his fans on the left think – people who would probably never vote for the Coalition anyway.
One last ripper from a punter on the Tele yarn:
‘If this bloke is all about emission reductions well maybe he can fix the traffic problems in his electorate on New Line Road Dural where four lanes funnel into two.
This problem has been there all the time Kean has been the member and it is getting worse.
Maybe the minister could help fix problems in his own electorate first before saving the world seen through his eyes.
He (his party) may have got 52% of the primary vote in his electorate last election but I very much doubt this will happen next election.
Remember the NSW state LNP only needs to lose two seats in the lower house and then it would be a minority government.
https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/this_bloke_is_in_the_wrong_party
Personally, I think those wind and solar farms are an abomination and an affront to nature.
on 11-10-2020 10:59 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@tezza2844 wrote:
@icyfroth wrote:
Personally, I think those wind and solar farms are an abomination and an affront to nature.
Point taken.
That's when foreign mining corporations are given the licence for open cut mining and ripping up fertile farming land and wildlife habitat. Then export it overseas to fuel manufacturing of things like wind turbines, amongst other non-essentials.
Wow only wind turbines amongst other non-essentials nothing else.. Sounds like you have a gripe against wind and solar power more than anything.. A bit of a throw back to your old hero Toxic Tony beliefs
on 12-10-2020 08:09 AM
on 12-10-2020 11:19 AM
on 12-10-2020 02:54 PM
@the_great_she_elephant wrote:https://www.kalgoorliehistory.org.au/goldfields-history/super-pit/
100% Australian owned.
Anglo/Swiss-based mining giant Glencore
Glencore plc is an Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company with headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, it's oil and gas head office in London and its registered office in Saint Helier, Jersey. The current company was created through a merger of Glencore with Xstrata on 2 May 2013.
The Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate. The company, which was founded by self-made billionaire Gautam Adani, want to build a coal mine in Central Queensland, inland from the Great Barrier Reef.
https://www.mamamia.com.au/what-is-adani/
The Shenhua Watermark Coal Project is a proposed open-cut mine located adjacent to the Liverpool Plains, 3km west of the village of Breeza and 25km south-east of the township of Gunnedah, New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
The project is owned by Shenhua Watermark Coal (Shenhua), a subsidiary of the Shenhua Corporation. Shenhua was awarded the exploration licence (EL) 7223 in October 2008 in exchange for $300m. The licence was further renewed in January 2012, granting the company five more years of operatorship.
The mine is estimated to have a production life of 30 years.
on 12-10-2020 03:05 PM
on 12-10-2020 03:30 PM
All's gone ' quiet '. lol
on 12-10-2020 03:53 PM
on 12-10-2020 04:15 PM
on 12-10-2020 08:08 PM
@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
"...who don't give a rat's about curbing their emissions..."
A bit like us then.
Australia is signatory to Paris Agreement
on 12-10-2020 08:39 PM
@icyfroth wrote:
@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
"...who don't give a rat's about curbing their emissions..."
A bit like us then.Australia is signatory to Paris Agreement
Which allows Australia to claim credits for previous emissions 'reductions'. Like paying to plant trees in other countries.
Australia is also one of few, if any, countries trying to cook the books in this way.