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Is this debate about the carbon tax? Oh well then I have an opinion.
The overseas multi-million dollar companies extracting coal from my country, creating a climate of greed, destroying communities and families while taking the majority of the millions overseas and leaving behind a landscape that will never recover should damn well pay for the privilege.
My issue would be that the government actually use this income to develop alternative sources of fuel. That I believe is the actual issue. Given the way theses companies splash their money around the tax won’t even bother them.
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Really have you been to the Latrobe Valley in Vic, seen the beautiful farms next to the power plants, the so called pollution, the clear stuff coming out of the chimneys is CO2 plant food, and the white stuff from the cooling towers is steam, neither are pollution. Yes they have an ugly open cut mine.
Google Loy Yang B Power Station turn to satellite view and zoom around, you will see Hazelwood, yes its an industrial area, but there are still lots of farms and bush around. It’s not so bad, and considering the benefit to Victorians well worth it. Yes investors are earning a return on their investment, because the government sold the plants to waste money on stupid things like pipelines and desal plants.
Don’t buy all the green’s hype and propaganda, be sceptical, ask questions check out claims for yourself, think.