Misinformation about nuclear power

02.07.13 - Dr Ziggy Switkowski: “The concerns that people have about nuclear power tend to be around the management of long-lived radioactive waste.  The use of water, for example, there’s a NIMBY phenomenon about not in my backyard because the concern is that living adjacent to a nuclear power station puts you at heightened risk.  Now the reality is if [...]MORE

Author: Dr Ziggy Switkowski ,
Categories: Activism, Energy Concerns, Global Markets
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02.07.13 - Dr Ziggy Switkowski: “The concerns that people have about nuclear power tend to be around the management of long-lived radioactive... MORE

Environmental activism ignores economic realities

02.07.13 - Prof Sinclair Davidson: “I think we need to be very suspicious of anybody who takes the view that it’s my way or the highway.  And unfortunately the environmental activists seem to have fallen into that trap where they work very strictly on the perspective that you can either have an environment or you can have an [...]MORE

Author: Prof. Sinclair Davidson ,
Categories: Activism, Economy, Energy Concerns, Environment, Environment & Climate, Resources & Economy
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02.07.13 - Prof Sinclair Davidson: “I think we need to be very suspicious of anybody who takes the view that it’s my way or the highway.... MORE

Ship volumes on the Reef – myth versus fact

01.07.13 - Brad Fish: “Another myth which is out there is about shipping within the Reef and, there’s been statements about the Great Barrier Reef being a coal highway and so forth there. Some of the numbers put out there by organisations such as Greenpeace and so forth suggest there could be 10,000 coal ships by the end [...]MORE

Author: Brad Fish ,
Categories: Activism, Environment, Great Barrier Reef
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01.07.13 - Brad Fish: “Another myth which is out there is about shipping within the Reef and, there’s been statements about the Great... MORE

Energy literacy

28.06.13 - Chris Hartcher: “In Australia, and I think across the world, people have two contacts with energy, one is when they turn on the switch, the second is when they get the bill, they’re the only two times when they think about energy.  There’s an automatic assumption that when you flick the switch on the energy will [...]MORE

Author: Chris Hartcher MP ,
Categories: Activism, Coal in Australia, Energy Choices, Energy Concerns, Government
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28.06.13 - Chris Hartcher: “In Australia, and I think across the world, people have two contacts with energy, one is when they turn on... MORE

The war on coal

28.06.13 - Dr Nikki Williams: “There’s a global campaign against the coal industry.  It’s effectively a war on the world’s largest source of primary energy for electricity production.  It has very major implications.  It is not about improving our industry’s environmental performance or the social outcomes of what we do.  It is about extinguishing the coal industry [...]MORE

Author: Dr Nikki Williams ,
Categories: Activism, Climate Change, Coal in Australia, Economy, Global Markets, Global Poverty, Jobs
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28.06.13 - Dr Nikki Williams: “There’s a global campaign against the coal industry.  It’s effectively a war on the world’s... MORE

Strategies of the fossil fuel resistance

28.06.13 - Dr Nikki Williams: “It was very interesting for us at the beginning of last year, which was 2012, to see a document in the media called stopping the coal export boom.  Which was put together by a number of NGOs and funded by a number of prominent entities including foundations from the United States and other [...]MORE

Author: Dr Nikki Williams ,
Categories: Activism, Environment, Environment & Climate, Global Markets
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28.06.13 - Dr Nikki Williams: “It was very interesting for us at the beginning of last year, which was 2012, to see a document in the media... MORE

Activism impacting investment in Australia

28.06.13 - Dr Nikki Williams: “The war on coal has some very material impacts.  Five years ago it cost approximately $100 million in upfront capital to get a mine in Queensland up.  Five years later that same mine costs $1 billion in upfront capital.  Now why have those costs escalated in such a short period of time?  The [...]MORE

Author: Dr Nikki Williams ,
Categories: Activism, Coal in Australia, Economy, Government, Resources & Economy
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28.06.13 - Dr Nikki Williams: “The war on coal has some very material impacts.  Five years ago it cost approximately $100 million in upfront... MORE

Activists ignore logic and reason

28.06.13 - Keith Orchison: “I think one of the most irritating things about the public debate is that many of the people who attack the fossil fuel industries on ideological grounds seem either unwilling or incapable of addressing the consequences.  I have a habit, when I do public speaking, of saying to audiences at the end of my [...]MORE

Author: Keith Orchison AM ,
Categories: Activism, Australia Energy Issues, Economy, Energy Choices, Resources & Economy
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28.06.13 - Keith Orchison: “I think one of the most irritating things about the public debate is that many of the people who attack the... MORE

The war on fossil fuels

28.06.13 - Martin Ferguson: “I think there’s a war on fossil fuels.  The environmental movement, it doesn’t matter whether it’s coal or gas, be it…in methane gas or…offshore gas, shale gas.  There is a group in the global community that’s totally opposed to anything other than renewable energy.  It’s not a scientific debate.  It’s an emotional debate.  And [...]MORE

Author: Martin Ferguson AM MP ,
Categories: Activism, Australia Energy Issues
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28.06.13 - Martin Ferguson: “I think there’s a war on fossil fuels.  The environmental movement, it doesn’t matter whether it’s... MORE

Impacts of activism on mining development

28.06.13 - Neville Sneddon: “There’s been something that people called lawfare going on, and that is that you have groups of people who can use the laws of the country, not to stop things at times but to certainly slow them down and to use wrinkles in the law to actually drag developments through court, and at the [...]MORE

Author: Neville Sneddon ,
Categories: Activism
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28.06.13 - Neville Sneddon: “There’s been something that people called lawfare going on, and that is that you have groups of people who... MORE

Activism is a major concern

28.06.13 - Michael Roche: “It’s certainly serving a good use for some of these NGO franchises, so they’re attracting financial support and they are attracting a range of supporters, rank and file supporters.  So they are getting some grip, but that is of concern to use because groups like Greenpeace seem to be able to say anything and [...]MORE

Author: Michael Roche ,
Categories: Activism, Industry
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28.06.13 - Michael Roche: “It’s certainly serving a good use for some of these NGO franchises, so they’re attracting financial support... MORE

The impact of mining on employment

28.06.13 - Joel Fitzgibbon: “It’s interesting that when I was first elected seventeen years ago unemployment in my electorate was around 13%. Today it’s less than 5%. It’s less than 5% mainly because of the coal mining industry. Where would the Hunter be now without coal mining? And some of those green activists would have the industry closed [...]MORE

Author: The Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP ,
Categories: Activism, Coal in Australia, Industry, Jobs
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28.06.13 - Joel Fitzgibbon: “It’s interesting that when I was first elected seventeen years ago unemployment in my electorate was around... MORE