Big Money Behind Australia’s Climate Change Denial
Ms Rinehart…. recently sponsored a speech by controversial UK climate-change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton …Her speech at the Boao Forum for Asia business conference in Perth last week, where she arranged for climate-change sceptic Prof Ian Plimer to address the audience, highlighted her scepticism of man-made climate change…Ms Rinehart wrote a reference letter for former CSIRO nuclear physicist and Federal Coalition backbencher, Dr Dennis Jensens, backing his doubts that humans have caused global warming
Australia’s richest woman fumes over carbon tax, Russell Quinn Business Reporter : The Sunday Times , July 16, 2011 THE country’s richest woman, WA mining magnate Gina Rinehart, has demanded a referendum on Julia Gillard’s carbon tax.
In a rare interview, the chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting and daughter of mining pioneer Lang Hancock, told The Sunday Times the Government’s new taxes were a “shock to investment”…..
Ms Rinehart, who admits to being a “demanding chairman”, recently sponsored a speech by controversial UK climate-change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton as part of the Lang Hancock Lecture series, which were revived this year by the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle for the first time since 2003.
Her speech at the Boao Forum for Asia business conference in Perth last week, where she arranged for climate-change sceptic Prof Ian Plimer to address the audience, highlighted her scepticism of man-made climate change.
In 2009, Ms Rinehart wrote a reference letter for former CSIRO nuclear physicist and Federal Coalition backbencher, Dr Dennis Jensens, backing his doubts that humans have caused global warming…..
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