ENVIRONMENT Minister Greg Hunt's decision to approve Shenhua Australia's $1 billion Watermark open cut coal mine on the NSW Liverpool Plains has incensed Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.

 

Mr Joyce said today the decision to approve the mine in his largely agricultural rural electorate was "ridiculous".

"I’ve never supported the Shenhua mine. I think it is ridiculous that you would have a major mine in the midst of Australia’s best agricultural land," he said.

 

read more: http://www.theland.com.au/news/agriculture/agribusiness/general-news/mining-on-farmland-ridiculous-joyce/2737140.aspx

The minister for vandalism and arseholes inc., Gregorious Huntwithnoshame (also known as Attila-the-Hunt), delivered a lit stick of gelignite as a peace gesture to the peasants of this glorious cuntry...

 

Yes I mean CUNTRY...

 

Hopefully there will be massive rally by a bunch of old frail foggies led by Alan Jones to protest against Turdy the Shit. Hopefully truckies (who mobilised against Gillard for who knows what for), also led by Alan Jones, now have a great cause to blockade a ridiculous preposterous ludicrous scandalous mine in the middle of the food bowl of Australia. I can see farmers with pitchforks attacking Canberra's parliament House like the Bastille, turning it into a prison for mad pollies — making sure Turdy is in there first — and not touring Australia trying to sell more shit to the good people of this country.

 

Imagine the French deciding to mine the countryside and the hills of the Champagne region because of the great chalk to build a gigantic white mausoleum dedicated to the death of this planet. 

 

One should know THAT THE CHINESE DON'T NEED THE COAL. The chinese have coal reserve and produce more coal than any country on earth. THE CHINESE EXPORT COAL... This is not a question of need. It's only because this Turdy wants to sell coal at ANY cost (blindly supported by that other turd, Uncle Rupe), even to the point of SUBSIDISING the mining of it, for foreign nations to eat our cake... ugly idiocy !

 

I do not have to tell you, you know already. Turdy is nuts. Dangerously so... And in the tradition of Ciobo telling the word that "someone should slit Gillard's throat", some "good Catholics" should send a naked emperor Turdy to the lions in the Maximus Circus... (I know many good Catholics who are on the same page and start to curse the almighty for being stuck with this Shit who is not Moses. "What did we do do to deserve this shit leading us into crap?" they tell me and ask god.)

Mind you, the lions could be offended to have to deal with such an awful turd... Funnel web spiders would not have such qualms...

Yes Tony Abbott is a dickhead...

turdy and supporters...

 

Beginning an almost 30-minute reprimand of the mine, on the Liverpool Plains in north-western NSW, Jones said he had been deluged with emails after "what can only be described as a disgraceful, but not final, decision by the Abbott government and the Environment Minister [Greg] Hunt".

"The NSW government have the final say on all of this," he said on The Alan Jones Breakfast Show.

"Quite frankly, Tony Abbott and [NSW Premier] Michael Baird are going to have to understand that governments rise and fall, sometimes, on a single issue. And the single issue, about selling this country out to foreign interests, no matter whose interests they are, is now emerging as a massive issue in this country."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/alan-jones-takes-aim-at-tony-abbott-in-30minute-spray-about-shenhua-mine-20150715-gicten.html#ixzz3fwHaAMRK


Yes Alan, the decision by Tony Abbott and Baird on the COAL mining of the best farmland in this country is ludicrous, absurd, ridiculous, outrageous, idiotic, treacherous, nasty, alarming, stupid, crazy, flabbergastingly turdy. But then what can you expect from these arseholes... Keep up the good work, Alan.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-16/clarke-and-dawe-please-call-dave-julie-and-barry/6625040

 

So what should we be doing, even if we aren't yet? The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists have produced a paper on Using Markets to Conserve Natural Capital. As the name implies, it has economists' fingerprints all over it.

In many cases the adverse environmental consequences of economic activity aren't reflected in the costs faced by producers and their customers, a classic instance of "market failure" – where the operation of market forces does not produce satisfactory outcomes for the community.

For instance, industries will continue to emit excessive greenhouse gases if there's no market value placed on retaining a stable climate system. And farming may cause land degradation if there's no market value placed on preserving the services the ecosystem provides to society by allowing us to grow food and fibre.

All this is a way of saying that the economy and the environment are inextricably linked but, left to its own devices, the market isn't capable of ensuring we don't stuff the environment and thereby stuff the economy.

Most economists accept this truth, but argue that the least economically costly way to fix the problem is to intervene in markets in ways that harness market forces to the service of the environment.

Often this can be done by getting the social (community-wide) costs of environmental damage incorporated into the private costs borne by producers and consumers. This was the rationale for the Gillard government's policy of using a hybrid carbon tax/emissions trading scheme to put a price on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The concerned scientists accept this logic and propose four market-oriented interventions to reduce future damage to the nation's "environmental assets" and to fix past damage.

Their first proposal is to change the law to impose on all landowners, public or private, a "duty of care" to prevent further damage to their land and water resources. Developing codes of practice would give landowners greater certainty about their obligations.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/time-to-get-the-economics-of-environment-right-20150717-giejry.html#ixzz3gE9JptV7

Yes, instead of digging big dirty great holes in the ground, we should take care of the land... Nothing new here. It has been so even in the conservative ranks when they created the Royal National Park. Nowadays with an execrable Turdy in charge of stuff, you can only expect gigantic stuff ups, which he — with the help of the Murdoch media — glorifies as victories... Iddiutt Abbutt...

 

 

Anderson, who was a chairman of Eastern Star Gas bought by Santos, used the Watermark coalmine debate as an example of a disregard for science and proven fact.

“Frankly, you only see indefensibly selfish debates around a range of topics which have to be explored and dealt with much more honestly, if we’re to meet the challenge in front of us.

“Whether it’s land availability, whether it’s water availability, whether it’s energy, everyone forgets the only reason that we’ve got to a population of 7.3 billion from the one billion or so before we started using fossil fuels, is because of cheap and accessible fossil fuels and that age is not over.

“And we will not lift countless hundreds of millions of people out of poverty into a decent life standard without fossil fuels being used, for the foreseeable future.

“The shocking thing to me is the western world, which prides itself on being more rational than ever, is now in fact becoming less rational and even superstitious.”

read more: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/24/farmers-question-coincidental-timing-of-proposed-environment-law-change

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Yes John Anderson, there is a bad superstition that tells us that FOOD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN COAL.... Go and eat coal nuggets, you idiot... 

And for those who don't remember John Anderson, or even Turdy's position please visit this site at:

http://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/13166

As with so many other issues, Tony Abbott simultaneously holds all positions on the mining versus farming issue. "We support the mining industry but we don't want to see prime agricultural land destroyed and we think that the rights of farmers should always be respected," he said this morning, in a decidedly futile effort to clarify his position.

 

http://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/1030