JENNY says:
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013 AT 2:28 AM
Like many acts of treachery……
Its all about money
Judas sold his savior for 30 pieces of silver, a huge fortune for the time.
And so it is with climate change…..
On 1ZB raidio John Key has claimed that, “Taking action on climate change will cost jobs.”
In fact the opposite is the case.
Two weeks ago, in one particularly dirty act, 1033 permanent jobs in the renewable sector were cancelled* because coal was cheaper. And not just any coal, imported Indonesian coal. Probably the most destructively mined coal on the planet**.
Having found the most ruinous source, of the most environmentally destructive fuel on earth, as well as cancelling 1033 jobs in the renewable sector, they are laying off dozens of local coal miners for this cheap coal***.
These two facts make a lie of the claim that it is the environmentalists who are the job killers. It is the vendors of the fossil fuel industry who are killing jobs, as well as drowning the Island nations. The truth is they don’t give a damn about jobs or the environment. It is all about making money for themselves.
It has been said that the definition of a capitalist is; “A capitalist is someone who would supply the rope being sold to hang them with, if they could make money on it”.
Unfortunately in the case of climate change, they are supplying the rope that will be used to hang us all.
The concept is simple. We all understand it. Coal is putting a sheet of glass over the world. The resulting new ‘Green House World’ will kill millions of human beings, men, woman and children, as drought, floods, famine, heatwaves, superstorms, become the norm.
*A move by Contact Energy to back out of a windfarm on the Waikato’s west coast has blown away hundreds of potential jobs in a move described as another disappointment to a region buffeted by lay-offs.
The Hauauru ma raki venture, planned for the coast between Port Waikato and Raglan, was expected to inject $180 million into the regional economy, including $115m of household income over a five-year construction period. It was also tipped to create an estimated 1033 jobs once operational and generate enough power for around 170,000 homes, with its 168 turbines dwarfing the 28 turbines at the region’s next biggest windfarm at Te Uku…..
….Waikato District Council Mayor Allan Sanson said he was not too surprised by the news.
“It was always going to be marginal in relation to the fact that there was already generating capacity and surplus available.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/9066601/Waikato-windfarm-backtrack-costs-hundreds-of-jobs
**Lamida Atas Village and Juai Village, were displaced by the expansion of the mine in 2003. The incidence of violence against residents and environmental activists has increased as the company pushes ahead with operations. Meanwhile it seems the security forces don’t want to take any responsibility for this.
In other districts of South Kalimantan a range of problems are evident. In Tanah Bumbu District, some mining is going on within a protected mountain forest. River barges have been used to transport coal since 1999 causing widespread contamination of the water with fuel oil. Previously, fisherfolk from Satui village fishing in the estuary could earn fifty thousand to two hundred thousand Rupiah a day. Now daily earnings have reduced to between thirty thousand and a hundred thousand. The Salajuan River is drying up, the water is turning black and it can’t be used by residents for their daily needs. Local people suffer from coughs, shortness of breath and eye diseases.
http://www.downtoearth-indonesia.org/story/deadly-coal-coal-exploitation-and-kalimantans-blighted-generation
***EPMU national mining advocate Ray Urquhart says state-owned Genesis Energy is being disingenuous about its role in mining job losses….
….The Huntly East mine’s largest customer, New Zealand Steel, has also been importing Indonesian coal at the cost of jobs.
http://www.epmu.org.nz/news/show/173483- See more at: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/09/04/letting-the-pacific-drown/#sthash.U2aWS4bF.dpuf
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