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Australia’s Minerals Council ASKED for national profit based tax

The Australian media – ever true to its corporate masters, and its own slackness, is giving the big miners, and their mouthpiece, the Liberal Party, full sway with an attack on the Australian government’s newly announced super profit resource tax.

BHP Billiton’s CEO Marius Kloppers is the leader in this breath-taking hypocrisy.

1. The Minerals Council of Australia, in its submission to the government Dec. 2008 specifically requested a change to a national “profit-based” tax.

2. BHP and its ancillary industries now kick up a fuss about reduced activities, job losses, etc at the Olympic Dam uranium mine at Roxby Downs.  But Olympic Dam has been functioning at about a quarter capacity for many months, due to a shaft accident, – nothing to do with the resource tax. And all probably quite convenient, in the present climate of low uranium prices.

May 7, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, BHP, BHP Billiton, nuclear costs, uranium