Give QLD a go.....we are crippled with legal tape........
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Anonymous
11 years ago
WE must do everything to stop the green terrorists from stopping vital job creating projects
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Frank Sutton
11 years ago
It would be a good thing if the objectors stopped using resources for their own purposes. The rest of us need the work.
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Brian Sellars
11 years ago
Despite all of the rhetoric from the greens and their propagandist clap trap they are buggering up Australia's economy for little gain. The fact is that coal is C.H.E.A.P. and the emerging economies can get it elsewhere. Those economies have a need which equates to demand and that demand will not diminish just because the Greens have conned an entire nation and, for the most part, the whole world. They told lies about the reef, disproven, and they are smothering the truth (with more lies and loads of misinformation) about the journey of coal as an energy source, albeit a probably finite journey. The reef was simply the emotive catalyst for wedging the truth of their intentions away from what they knew would be wholesale ambivalence - something which would have diluted their desire to strangle minds. Having vast money resources from the likes of the wealthy American and Australian foundations and the hundreds of thousands of $10 conscience donors drives a lot of legal nails.
Just as Joseph Goebbels sold the majestic wonders of Hitler's Nazism (even to British aristocracy it seems!) this mob is succeeding in fooling millions of gullible, especially middle class, minds about the greens' systematic intellectual genocide of truth and logic. Taking the infinitive "to bugger-off" those millions of minds need to peer into their dictionaries to re-learn its full meaning and to go forth and direct it robustly at these murderers of truth and reality.
Equally, State and Federal governments need to quickly grasp that governments with coal on other continents have already bought all copies of the dictionary and underlined the meaning of "TO BUGGER-OFF" and how to use it in context. More than likely their cultural backgrounds might in some cases give them licence to use the term out of context!
If you are patient enough for some reading here is a speech from the mind of a propagandist. Very telling! http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54.ht
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Tanya giles
11 years ago
Our family is all for it
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Malcolm Potts
11 years ago
Progress should not be held captive to the personal agendas of activists.
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Phil St Baker
11 years ago
We deserve efficient, effective and reliable approval processes where business can operate with confidence and employees can have job security. Exploitation of legal loop holes designed to stifle business development is un Australian. This conduct needs to be eliminated for well being of all. Reasonable opportunity needs to be provided for objection and for concerns to be properly considered in the context of the whole, but this cannot be open ended and must be in accord with community expectations.
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Zane Loeskow
11 years ago
Keep the jobs in Australia. Australia has had it good with the money the resources industries bring in and I don't think a lot of people have thought about where are we going to bring foreign dollars in if these projects stop.
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Cam Schubert
11 years ago
What we don't hear about are the lost opportunities for future communities that are impacted by these soft decisions and lack of action.
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Alex Walters
11 years ago
It is not so much the activists that are the problem, but rather governments that fail to heed the concerns of the broader community
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Vince Sunter
11 years ago
It is a very serious thing to deny this country the revenue and jobs that flow from projects such as Adani. In THIS country we now have the capacity to ensure such endeavors are completed in a respectful manner, and the focus coming from our increasing social conscience means we have the appetite and the will to ENSURE appropriate behaviour.
Unfortunately those who would once have been deeply satisfied by the clearly observable significant lifting up of the collective societal conscience have now gone on to other things where they have become the ones wreaking the damage and destruction on our society. Apparently for the true purpose of feeding voracious egos that have long since lost sight of what the true purpose is here, or retain any credible ability to provide a balanced perspective on important issues. Can this change, or do the same brutally dishonest tactics they are now employing need to be turned against the true aggressors here?
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Alexander Molnar
11 years ago
In the current economic climate - seems a huge call to turn our backs on future jobs and earning potential
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Ross Stainlay
11 years ago
100 % support..
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John Henderson
11 years ago
The litigious approach devalues the real value that green groups and concerned communities could, and should bring to development of our natural resources. It signals a lack of respect for our democratic values and systems and I suspect that attacking mine developments is the thin end of the wedge for groups purporting to be green but which may have other agenda. Watch out farmers - you will be next on the hit list.
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Kevin Murphy
11 years ago
If the minority groups keep up the destruction of projects Where do the think Australias export revene is coming from in future years.
Kevin Murphy
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Rebecca Bicknell
11 years ago
Australia needs mining and resources to help fund our nation. To all those in opposition do you use electricity? Coal means electricity not just for Australia but for those countries that buy it off us. Do you utilise the comforts of modern lifestyle that have been funded largely by Australias ability to export it resources.
It's easy to oppose large projects at the forefront of the media, but logic has to reign. We need jobs and money to support our nation.
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Brett Thompson
11 years ago
With the general minerals industry in such a poor state and prospects for recovery looking less likely, anything to help the industry needs support. Sure there must be checks and balances to ensure that no real long term environmental damage is done but for too long the pendulum has swung to the far left and stayed there.
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Christopher Towsey
11 years ago
Denying Adani's coal mine will deny 200 million Indians cheap electricity, which is their ticket out of poverty. Opponents should hang their heads in shame.
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Peter Scanlon
11 years ago
The argument from EDO opposing the Carmichael Project:
"The Australian coal industry is clearly suffering, with thousands of jobs lost from existing mines due to the low coal price and the world moving away from coal towards renewables.
Rather than face these realities, the mining industry, and now even the Federal Environment Minister, are hitting back, bizarrely asserting that a major problem is environmentalists running court cases allegedly designed to delay or obstruct mining projects.
It’s bizarre, because they have no evidence to show that this is correct.
These shrill assertions of frivolous and vexatious litigants holding up major resource projects, seen again last week after the Federal Court revoked the Carmichael mine’s approval, are spurious.
The claims have been rejected by the Productivity Commission and the Queensland Land Court itself which in 2014 told a Queensland parliamentary committee: “In the court’s experience, there have not really been a lot of stalling tactics. If there is, it generally comes from both sides. It is not just landowners or objectors who generally are not ready to proceed; it is also often the mining companies that are not ready”.
If anything is bizarre then its EDO's argument.
Jobs before we join the 3rd world.
Give QLD a go.....we are crippled with legal tape........
WE must do everything to stop the green terrorists from stopping vital job creating projects
It would be a good thing if the objectors stopped using resources for their own purposes. The rest of us need the work.
Despite all of the rhetoric from the greens and their propagandist clap trap they are buggering up Australia's economy for little gain. The fact is that coal is C.H.E.A.P. and the emerging economies can get it elsewhere. Those economies have a need which equates to demand and that demand will not diminish just because the Greens have conned an entire nation and, for the most part, the whole world. They told lies about the reef, disproven, and they are smothering the truth (with more lies and loads of misinformation) about the journey of coal as an energy source, albeit a probably finite journey. The reef was simply the emotive catalyst for wedging the truth of their intentions away from what they knew would be wholesale ambivalence - something which would have diluted their desire to strangle minds. Having vast money resources from the likes of the wealthy American and Australian foundations and the hundreds of thousands of $10 conscience donors drives a lot of legal nails. Just as Joseph Goebbels sold the majestic wonders of Hitler's Nazism (even to British aristocracy it seems!) this mob is succeeding in fooling millions of gullible, especially middle class, minds about the greens' systematic intellectual genocide of truth and logic. Taking the infinitive "to bugger-off" those millions of minds need to peer into their dictionaries to re-learn its full meaning and to go forth and direct it robustly at these murderers of truth and reality. Equally, State and Federal governments need to quickly grasp that governments with coal on other continents have already bought all copies of the dictionary and underlined the meaning of "TO BUGGER-OFF" and how to use it in context. More than likely their cultural backgrounds might in some cases give them licence to use the term out of context! If you are patient enough for some reading here is a speech from the mind of a propagandist. Very telling! http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb54.ht
Our family is all for it
Progress should not be held captive to the personal agendas of activists.
We deserve efficient, effective and reliable approval processes where business can operate with confidence and employees can have job security. Exploitation of legal loop holes designed to stifle business development is un Australian. This conduct needs to be eliminated for well being of all. Reasonable opportunity needs to be provided for objection and for concerns to be properly considered in the context of the whole, but this cannot be open ended and must be in accord with community expectations.
Keep the jobs in Australia. Australia has had it good with the money the resources industries bring in and I don't think a lot of people have thought about where are we going to bring foreign dollars in if these projects stop.
What we don't hear about are the lost opportunities for future communities that are impacted by these soft decisions and lack of action.
It is not so much the activists that are the problem, but rather governments that fail to heed the concerns of the broader community
It is a very serious thing to deny this country the revenue and jobs that flow from projects such as Adani. In THIS country we now have the capacity to ensure such endeavors are completed in a respectful manner, and the focus coming from our increasing social conscience means we have the appetite and the will to ENSURE appropriate behaviour. Unfortunately those who would once have been deeply satisfied by the clearly observable significant lifting up of the collective societal conscience have now gone on to other things where they have become the ones wreaking the damage and destruction on our society. Apparently for the true purpose of feeding voracious egos that have long since lost sight of what the true purpose is here, or retain any credible ability to provide a balanced perspective on important issues. Can this change, or do the same brutally dishonest tactics they are now employing need to be turned against the true aggressors here?
In the current economic climate - seems a huge call to turn our backs on future jobs and earning potential
100 % support..
The litigious approach devalues the real value that green groups and concerned communities could, and should bring to development of our natural resources. It signals a lack of respect for our democratic values and systems and I suspect that attacking mine developments is the thin end of the wedge for groups purporting to be green but which may have other agenda. Watch out farmers - you will be next on the hit list.
If the minority groups keep up the destruction of projects Where do the think Australias export revene is coming from in future years. Kevin Murphy
Australia needs mining and resources to help fund our nation. To all those in opposition do you use electricity? Coal means electricity not just for Australia but for those countries that buy it off us. Do you utilise the comforts of modern lifestyle that have been funded largely by Australias ability to export it resources. It's easy to oppose large projects at the forefront of the media, but logic has to reign. We need jobs and money to support our nation.
With the general minerals industry in such a poor state and prospects for recovery looking less likely, anything to help the industry needs support. Sure there must be checks and balances to ensure that no real long term environmental damage is done but for too long the pendulum has swung to the far left and stayed there.
Denying Adani's coal mine will deny 200 million Indians cheap electricity, which is their ticket out of poverty. Opponents should hang their heads in shame.
The argument from EDO opposing the Carmichael Project: "The Australian coal industry is clearly suffering, with thousands of jobs lost from existing mines due to the low coal price and the world moving away from coal towards renewables. Rather than face these realities, the mining industry, and now even the Federal Environment Minister, are hitting back, bizarrely asserting that a major problem is environmentalists running court cases allegedly designed to delay or obstruct mining projects. It’s bizarre, because they have no evidence to show that this is correct. These shrill assertions of frivolous and vexatious litigants holding up major resource projects, seen again last week after the Federal Court revoked the Carmichael mine’s approval, are spurious. The claims have been rejected by the Productivity Commission and the Queensland Land Court itself which in 2014 told a Queensland parliamentary committee: “In the court’s experience, there have not really been a lot of stalling tactics. If there is, it generally comes from both sides. It is not just landowners or objectors who generally are not ready to proceed; it is also often the mining companies that are not ready”. If anything is bizarre then its EDO's argument.