Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg again castigated Australia for its insistence on mining coal despite her complaints, adding a call Saturday for an end to the activity to her list of climate demands to be delivered at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos.
Thunberg urged German industrial giant Siemens AG to abandon its plan to provide equipment to a massive new coal mining operation in the state of Queensland’s Galilee Basin.
Adani is the name of the new operation run by India’s Adani Power which the Australian government approved last year.
Siemens is supposed to provide part of the signaling system for the railway lines necessary for moving the coal out of the plant and to the coast, a move Thunberg has slammed.
As Breitbart News reported, Thunberg has already issued a long list of demands for Davos, warning she will admonish world leaders for providing subsidies to the oil and gas industry, which is responsible, in part, for advancing civilization by providing abundant and affordable energy.
The World Economic Forum website posted a commentary written by Thunberg and other youth activists and published in the Guardian.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) revealed last month Australia’s coal exports are expected to rise over the next five years on the back of growing demand from Asia, as Breitbart News reported.
The report, published by the IEA on 17 December, found demand for coal in India could rise by 4.6 percent by 2024 and by 5 percent in Indonesia and Vietnam. As a result, Australia’s total coal production is expected to rise 1.4 percent annually from 409 million t in 2018 to 444 million t in 2024.
Coal exports were worth an estimated AUS$67 billion (US$45.9 billion) to the nation’s economy in the 2018 – 2019 financial year, overtaking iron ore as Australia’s most valuable export.
Matt Canavan, Australia’s Minister for Resources, said the report supported the need for new coal mines in the states of New South Wales and Queensland. He commented: “We will need more than Adani.”
The Adani mine, which received final environmental approval in June, is expected to produce at least 10 million t of thermal coal every year.
Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison has slammed previous calls from radical climate activists to end the export of coal – an industry worth $67billion a year to the nation’s economy – as a new report showed global demand is set to keep increasing over the next decade and beyond.
Morrison, who once famously brandished a lump of coal in parliament, crying, “This is coal – don’t be afraid!” vowed those climate protesters – including Greta Thunberg – would not be dictating Australia’s energy or trade policy.
Greta Thunberg has never visited Australia.
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So, let me get this straight. A 17 year old high school drop out that can “see” CO2 in the atmosphere is (now) charged with setting international energy & environmental policy? What’s next? Am I going to be sent to a “Reeducation Camp” because this TOTALLY defies ANY test of reasonability? I’d call this Bats#it CRAZY, but that would be an insult to the average, sensible bat…
Guess who actually writes Greta’s posts:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2020/01/facebook-glitch-reveals-indian-un-climate-delegate-posts-as-greta-thunberg.html
“>>> Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg again castigated Australia for its insistence on mining coal despite her complaints… <<<”
Pretentious and pathetic. She’s not an Australian citizen for starters. How Australians choose to make their living and how they run their country is none of her business. She is neither qualified nor entitled to make any comments on the matter.
She has no position to demand Australia end all coal mining these coal miners should not be forced to lose their jobs all over some totaly fake crisis like Global Warming/Climate Change
The above comments are right on. I’m sure that Siemens AG will give Greta the attention she deserves and ignore her demands that it abandon its plan to provide equipment to coal mining operation in Queensland’s. However, I’ll point out that if Siemens didn’t provide the equipment, someone else would. It is the same concept as divesting in fossil fuel stocks. If someone sells something of value, someone else will buy it.
Fossil fuels are heavily taxed. In Canada, at least four different taxes are collected at the pump.
No way does any Western government make welfare payments to energy companies, except for the Green shft. I’m sure that the eco – anarchists will misconstrue a drilling permit or a pipeline approval as a subsidy. Trudeau is waiving billion$ in tax revenue by deliberating constipating the permit process with more hearings. Meanwhile, our debt is exploding.
I think the common misunderstanding in the U.S is confusing tax deductions with subsidies. If you receive an accelerated tax deduction for a capital expenditure you are still risking private money. In the case of a government subsidy, you are being given taxpayer money at little or no risk to shareholders. Big difference…
I have read articles from some activists who go further and the subsidies they claim that the fossil fuel industry is receiving are huge. Here is an example. They claim that a carbon emissions tax of $3.00 a gallon on gasoline should be collected. This was an older article so it might be more now. The fact that this tax isn’t being collected is counted as a subsidy.
There’s many job creation subsidies and I expect that the whacko’s would deny any of that money to the real energy companies.
The eco anarchists are impatient.
They’re pushing immature technology. We have enough fossil fuels to get us through until viable alternatives can be found. Seems to me that the punks want credit for something they haven’t invented.
Whats next turn all our Freeways in some stupid bicycle paths just to satisfy some Brainwashed 16 year old whats this world coming to when a child dictates to us all? Maybe another Child Crusade where all her followers become the servants to the new age pagan Earth Religion under Gaia and the Church of Gaia and soon come to Human Sacrifices like the Aztecs,Incas and Myhans did