This dubious honour goes to the Labor Party controlled Government in the State of Queensland in Australia, Labor being the party on the left side of politics here in Australia.
This story details a new deal struck with China Power to open up new coal deposits in Central Queensland. It is a $A70 Billion project for the opening of four underground, and two open cut mines. Arguably, Queensland has some of the largest coal deposits on the Planet, and this new deal opens up more of these fields. A new (private) rail line to transport the coal will be constructed as well as new jetties and coal loaders at the Abbott Point coal loading facility in Bowen, on the Coast.
The deal will see between 30 million and 100 million tonnes of coal being exported when the new infrastructure will be up and running in 2014, with work starting later this year.
The Government receives royalties from the coal being mined, and this will see up to $700 million a year flowing into Government coffers as a direct result of this new deal.
All this is from the same Labor Party that so vigorously follows the Climate Change/Global Warming mantra that tells us that the emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) are what is causing this so called catastrophic Global Warming that will be the death of us all, and that these emissions are in the main a result of the burning of coal in large coal fired power plants.
This coal will be directly used for those coal fired power plants. It is the highest quality black steaming coal, best suited for these plants. The average amount is proposed at around 40 million tonnes of coal each year.
As this coal will be burned in those coal fired plants, it is quite easy to calculate those emissions. As each ton of coal is burned it produces 2.86 tons of CO2, as shown at this link. The conversion from the Metric Tonnes to U.S. short tons sees this average 40 million tonnes convert to 44.1 million tons, and using the coal to CO2 multiplier, this now gives us 126 million tons of CO2, and that is an actual physical weight.
So then, let’s look at that in respect of the overall picture.
This State Government is the same political party who is currently in power as the Government at the Federal level. That Government is desperately trying to implement legislation to ‘combat’ this so called Climate Change/Global Warming. To that end, they are telling us that we need to do something and to do it quickly as it is fast getting to the almost desperate stage. They are trying to implement their Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) which is along the same lines as the U.S. Waxman Markey Kerry Boxer Carbon Cap And Trade legislation. It seeks to limit the emission of these ‘dangerous’ Greenhouse gases. To do this they hope to place a cost on that CO2 hoping that this vast new tax will somehow lower those emissions. This same Labor Government went to Copenhagen hoping that a meaningful decision could be reached there, and all that did produce was a fiasco of huge proportions with no meaningful decision whatsoever.
This same Labor Government at a federal level is seeking to impose a 5% cut on emissions calculated at the levels they were in 2000.
Now, in the single most brazen act of complete disregard for any of that, this same Labor Party at a State Government level seeks to actually export what will be an extra huge amount of this same CO2 directly to China where it will be used to provide fuel for those same coal fired power plants that they tell us are what is causing the ‘perceived’ problem in the first place.
So, when you look at what will be proposed by one arm of the Labor Party at the federal level, that of a 5% reduction in emissions of CO2 on the 2000 levels, let’s then see how much of a cut that really is.
Australia currently emits nearly 400 million tons of CO2 on a yearly basis, although that is a fairly conservative estimate as the amount might actually be considerably more than that. So, if as proposed they seek to cut 5%, then going on that conservative amount, and then backdating it to 2000, then a 5% cut each year amounts to close on 20 Million tons of CO2.
Then without even pausing to take a breath that same Labor Party at the State level proposes to export an extra 126 million tons each year, more than 6 times the proposed cutback in Australian emissions.
This same State Labor Government keeps plugging the mantra of lowering emissions, and how we all need to make sacrifices at a personal level, and on the State level as a whole. They do this loudly and often. and especially at election time. They need to say all this to shore up the backing from those voters who have a ‘Green’ leaning. They need to also say it out loud to shore up the backing from the Greens political party, so they get the second preferences of voters at election time, because in some cases those preferences actually help Labor candidates get elected.
They tell us that they are actively working towards a greener future for the State.
In the same breath, while people flock to this State from other States in Australia, and with that population level increasing, this same Government has not constructed any new power plants to provide the extra power needed for all those people at the three levels where it is required, Residential (38%) Commerce (37%), and Industrial. (24%)
In fact what they have done is to construct massive infrastructure in the guise of a seawater desalinating plant. This plant sucks up huge amounts of what is already a low level of electrical power. Then to move all the water around they have constructed a huge pipeline system interconnecting all the dams and the desal plant to each other so the water can be moved around more easily. This necessitates the use of huge pumping stations, again further sapping the electrical power levels of the State. With electrical power now becoming almost critical, this same State Government is now exhorting all the State’s people in a concerted TV advertising campaign to cut back the consumption of electrical power during Peak power times. something aimed directly and squarely at the Residential sector, because peak power time is when everyone arrives home from School and work, and cooks their evening meals, turn on all the lights, shower, wash clothing, and all the things they do as part and parcel of normal everyday life. What do they expect us to do. Put off eating the evening meal until after midnight.
This is a State Government that has allowed their power generating sector to run down almost to the point that there will not be enough power to go round.
Then they proudly announce a deal that will export coal to China to run the power plants they so despise here at home. That coal will be enough to provide fuel for eight large power plants, and that number of plants will be brought on line in two months as China brings one new large coal fired plant onto the grid every seven days, supplying electrical power to Chinese people who have no access currently to electrical power at that residential level. Those plants are all the newer technology coal fired plants that are smaller, produce more electricity, burn less coal, burn it more efficiently, and emit less CO2 than any of the current older technology plants in the Western World, now all getting to the stage where they become time expired.
This is hypocrisy of the the most breathtaking and staggering proportion from a Government who sees the inflow of so much money, up to $700 million a year as more important than any ‘esoteric’ problem of Climate Change/Global Warming.
It seems that this amount of money trumps Climate Change/Global Warming every time.
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