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Found out under the shade of a Coolibah | Herald Sun

Found out under the shade of a Coolibah Herald Sun

Olga Galacho

March 12, 2009 – “………………….. the big polluters’ favourite bedtime reading — the Coolibah newsletter.

Coolibah is an “energy communications and issues management consultancy” that “provides advisory services to government, industry associations, management consultancies and companies engaged in a wide range of energy activities and services”.

Its director is Keith Orchison, whose services to the petroleum and electricity industries earned him a Member of the Order of Australia award.

But, more significantly, he was a founding member of the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network — the greenhouse mafia — whose sole raison d’etre over the years has been to lobby governments hard to go softly on climate change policy…………………………….members include Alcoa, Bluescope Steel, Caltex, Cement Australia, CSR, Rio Tinto, Xstrata Coal and so on and so forth — the big polluters or in Senator Wong’s jargon, “the emissions intensive trade exposed groups”.

Most in this cohort have managed to extract concessions (free pollution permits) so significant from Senator Wong that now, the rest of the economy will have to foot the carbon reduction cost . . . thanks a lot, chappies.

Found out under the shade of a Coolibah | Herald Sun

March 14, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized