How BHP determined Abbott government energy policy

Worried BHP CEO pressed Hockey to keep diesel rebate. Financial Review 23 May 14 BHP Billiton chief executive Andrew Mackenzie was among several mining executives who directly lobbied the federal government against cutting the industry’s rebate for diesel excise at last week’s budget. (subscribers only) http://www.afr.com/p/national/worried_bhp_ceo_pressed_hockey_to_byOkNSIXbue5I2qIxnFZPP

Christine Milne

Huge multinational BHP Billiton heard Joe Hockey’s rhetoric that ‘everyone has to contribute’ to the Budget task and was ‘worried’ that might include them.

A quick meeting with the Government reassured them that by ‘everyone’ the Liberals meant the young, the sick & the poor, not big miners.

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May 24, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics

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17 October, Free Public Talk on Nuclear Issues in South Australia

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Dr Jim Green will discuss international developments in the field of nuclear power including ‘small modular reactors’ and Generation 4 ‘advanced’ nuclear reactor concepts.