Tuesday, April 08, 2008
COALING BEATS WARMING
Before last year’s election:
The CFMEU’s new anti-government ad features a coal miner calling for John Howard to sign the Kyoto protocol, and demanding a government that will “take climate change seriously”.
And now:
The Rudd Government and unions are preparing to reap the huge financial rewards of strong demand for Australia’s high-priced coal exports, despite the problems posed for Labor’s avowed green credentials. Amid an expected increase in accompanying carbon emissions from coal that Labor says it wants to limit, unions say Australian resource companies could open a further 10 mines and employ thousands more workers to take advantage of the boom in coal exports to China ...
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is ready to welcome a bigger local mining workforce as members.
Bring on the global anti-coal protesters! A confrontation between them and CFMEU goons could be more fun than 2006’s meat and chains party.
