Big Industry polluters happy with Carbon-tax deal

[mellie]

Speaking of saying sorry, what happened to this?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 5949404856


She's off to a lying tart when it comes to recognising our first Australians in the constitution , yes?

And so much so, they seem to have slipped her mind, entirely.

And will Gillard now say sorry to our first Australians for turning an Indigenous sacred site (Olympic Dam) into the worlds largest uranium mine, courtesy of a back-door expansion deal she struck with BHP's CEO in exchange for their promotion and support of her treacherous carbon tax?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-12/b ... section=sa

It's obvious, the coalition aren't too enthused about muckraking here, and or airing this grievance, despite indigenous protest and their having an indigenous MP on deck themselves.

Meanwhile Bob Brown is celebrating "Proud to be a non-Indigenous Australian day." ..or was it more to the tune of one giant leap for Green mankind?

Whats Ken Wyatts, (the new Liberal member for Hasluck and first Indigenous MP elected to the federal House of Representatives) take on this odious under-rot?

Or has luck run out?

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This looks rather passionate, then reflect back to the dyspraxic and awkward manner in which she snogs her alleged defacto Tim. Like a cicada trying to release itself from it's shell.

No, this is much more passionate, yes indeed.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/clima ... 1lkdj.html

When it's clear, screwing over Indigenous Australians with other womans spouses is what wets her purple vertical drapes.

Such a lovely woman, I'll bet her parents are just smitten with her, when they can recall who she is after not seeing her for years on end stuffed in a nursing home.

Did they even come over on the same boat?

Or did Juliar arrive in a Soviet submarine?

[mellie]

Workers exposed to unsafe levels of radiation at Olympic Dam mine: whistleblower
Workers at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam are being exposed to unsafe levels of radiation, according to a company whistleblower. BHP Billiton has been warned about the risks at Roxby Downs, but according to South Australian Upper House Greens MP Mark Parnell the company has failed to take action. Mr Parnell says the levels of polonium-210, the toxic by-product of uranium production, have breached health standards. The whistleblower produced documents that show BHP uses manipulated averages and distorted sampling to ensure the figures are below the maximum exposure levels set by government, he said. (Sydney Morning Herald June 4, 2010)


Eminent scientists warn of "mind-blowing" health risk from Olympic Dam mine expansion
A group of eminent scientists and doctors, including a Nobel Prize-winner and two Australians of the Year, has warned of the "mind-blowing risk" to the health of South Australians from the Olympic Dam expansion. The experts warn of arsenic, mercury and uranium which will enter undergroundwater and the atmosphere. The 15 have written to the State Government warning that up to 5.5 million tonnes of toxic waste in dams with an area of 4000 ha will reach ground water within 150 years and dust storms could blow thousands of tonnes from the 242 million tonnes of waste into the atmosphere and all over the state for hundreds of years. "To use a non-medical term, these proposals are mind-blowing in the potential risks to this and future generations," the letter states. "There will be direct adverse health impacts and also impacts on future generations." The medical experts recommend the project be delayed until after health impact studies can be undertaken and that BHP be made to put aside funds to pay for the health effects for "centuries".
The letter is signed by, among others, Nobel Prize-winner and Australian of the Year Professor Peter Doherty, Australians of the Year Professor Gustav Nossal and Professor Fiona Stanley, former Dean of the University of Adelaide Medical School Professor Bob Douglas and Executive Dean of Health Sciences at Flinders University Professor Michael Kidd. (Adelaide Now Aug. 18, 2009)

It's all here Mantra...the history of Olympic Dam mining and incidents...along with ongoing mining concerns.

http://www.wise-uranium.org/umopauod.html

Not only is it harmful to the environment, and a health and environmental hazard, it's a token of disrespect to our traditional Australians.

Gillard is endangering future generations of Australians, our environment and disrespecting our Indigenous Australians.

http://www.wise-uranium.org/umopauod.html

Yet despite this... BHP together with GALP are in fact celebrating their ill-conceived win/win.
Carbon-tax 4 BHP mining deal.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-12/b ... section=sa

[mellie]

Hold up, I feel another Gillard panel coming on....

On Monday Australia’s federal government and the government of South Australia, where the mine is located, approved the project’s environmental impact assessment while also laying out 157 conditions for its development. The expansion project is so economically and environmentally sensitive to South Australia that it may be overseen by a new government body, according to analysts.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/01454a56-f ... i_referer=

What are the 157 conditions?

I know what the first one is....pass the buck over to a 'new' government body relinquishing our federal and state governments of their health and environmental responsibilities.

Did we expect anything less?

Hot potato Hot Potato... Hot potato Hot Potato...

Hang on, didn't Gillard promise a transparent and accountable government pre-2010 election?
Or was that just another non-core promise?

Good luck to those residing in the southern parts of Australia...or even northern, (depending on which way the wind blows, or where your water comes from)... for the contamination is expected to impinge on 'states' not just 'state'.



So will Chelation therapy now be placed on the BHPS, this opposed to the PBS?
This and be covered by uranicare this opposed to medicare?

Well done Gillard, good to see you getting a pay-raise btw...by your "Independent" scoff...corporate BHP flanked Remuneration Tribunal.

All in a days work?

Why are we tax-payers rewarding you for placing future generations of our offspring at risk?

Or are all these above scientists liars?

You seem to accept scientific consensus when it suits you..(re-Global Warming)....why not when it concerns the expansion of mining operations down in Olympic Dam?

Talk about children of the dammed.

Was this condemning scientific report unleashed around the time your chief scientific advisor resigned because you kept ignoring her?
This and wouldn't even meet with her?

Please Explain you morally barren half-wit.

Whats Bob Browns take on all this?

[mellie]

Mantra was sure the opposition/coalition initiated the exploration/mining/expansion of Olympic Dam SA.

It's sickening, but the expansion started under the Coalition. I haven't kept the old details unfortunately but both parties are complicit in this

- Mantra

The deposit was discovered by Western Mining Corporation in 1975 near Roxby Downs Sheep Station (Under a ALP Whitlam Federal Government) and started production in 1988 (Under a Hawke ALP government).

http://australianpolitics.com/lists/pri ... since-1901



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian ... tion,_1975 <---(Note the ALP swing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_of ... _Australia

Thus the exploration and mining commenced under a Labor state and federal governments, as have much of the larger less transparent expansions in other industry venture to date ...and why?

Because they can!

http://www.marxists.org/history/interna ... /index.htm (The Oz commie mentality) <---For deeper evaluation as to why Labor don't believe the plebs have a right to make informed choices, and whilst they preach workers rites, solidarity, strength and unity...theres ultimately an underlying agenda/objective for why they give with one hand, and take with the other. promise the world, yet give you an atlas.

Mantra, you are an old-school lefty,(a rare gem these days) of which upholds freedom of expression, honesty, civil liberty and mutual respect, the new "left" speaks from both sides of it's twisted red-mouth. What ever it takes to meet their globalist objective.
Lying, cheating and being caught doing so is acceptable practice, readily justified (to their way of thinking) they justify their BS with "It's for the common good of the "bigger' cause."...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Da ... _Australia

And for a recent SA perspective...
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/opin ... 6165324608

[mellie]

Gone are the days of the Libs being for the snobs and Labs for the worker....truth is, it always was the other way round, it's just their unions had a way of brainwashing members to believe otherwise.

Are Libs perfect?

Far from it.

.... Transparency and press freedom leads to a more transparent and accountable government, under the current government, they are a protected species passing bills, Acts, legislation, left right and centre....and do so when they know the media are occupied with other matters...even wait for the leader of an opposition to go on holidays to pass their muck.

Ie, they're sneaks.

I cant stand sneaks.

Look at Gillards elfin like pointy mischievous sneaky features.... Abbotts guarded and clumsy , but he's not a sneak.

He has a glass jaw however, this and needs to come up with something more substantial than his monotonous Gillard lied about a carbon-tax dribble....1 it's worn, and best refreshed for an election spool, 2 theres so much more he's missing.

Abbotts holding fire, but i'm not sure why--- Is there a method to his simplicity, or is he mentally lazy and really cant pack a punch?

He pledged transparency, accountability, this and was once a journalist... claims to be an advocate of free speech, thus should know fine well how to research, this and dig up the dirt, but he's holding back.

I get the fact he needs to keep it repetitive and simple for the masses who aren't really interested in politics, but surely, he can give it a bit more during Question Time?

He's playing it safe, I realise this, meanwhile, our nation is going to hell.

We are running out of time... our society is getting sick, particularly the more vulnerable.