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Deceptive campaign to ‘greenwash’ Australia’s coal industry

Christina Macpherson's avatarNuclear Australia

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The campaign claims that low-emission coal-fired power plants and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is “now a reality” and are slashing emissions.

However, there is only one CCS-enabled plant operational in the world, in Canada. In Australia, there is just one CCS project aimed at coal emissions in the pipeline, which may arrive at some point in the 2020s.

Coal is a dangerous little black rock. Every climate scientist and almost every politician in the world knows that coal is very polluting and very dangerous. The only people who don’t get that are the Minerals Council and our government.

Mining industry’s new ‘coal is amazing’ TV ad labelled desperate,Guardian,   Oliver Milman, @olliemilman,6 Sept 15 
 The Minerals Council of Australia’s new TV ad claims the coalmining industry provides $40bn a year to Australia’s economy. Video: Minerals Council of Australia 

Green groups criticise ‘ludicrous’ Minerals Council…

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December 1, 2015 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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