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Contradictions in Australia’s BHP and nuclear hype

First BHP. The news is full of BHP Billiton’s massive profits and future prospects. Yet within all this, a small sobering note.  Floods in many countries, including Australia, have hampered BHP’s mining activities.

And these floods were not one-offs. Also in today’s news, scientists now have evidence that global warming is increasing these extreme climate events.  Not such a good forecast for coal and uranium mining.

Second – contradictions in Liberal Party policy. On the one hand, it’s the party of climate denial.  On the other hand, they have the  doctrine of “Nuclear Power As the Solution to Climate Change”.

As for Labor – well – there seem to be few contradictions there  – all  snouts to the big mining corporations’  trough – Christina Macpherson

February 17, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews