Monday, October 27, 2014

COAL IS BLACKER THAN BLACK


According to  Prime Minister  Tony Abbott , coal is  good for humanity . Not according to a post in  the  American  Nation of Change, progressive journalism for positive change ,  which  mentions  Australia , India  , Indonesia , China  and  other countries under  the  heading  COAL AND CORRUPTION . Written  by  Marina Lou , a legal adviser for Greenpeace International , specialising in financial market  regulation , it  opens with  this  statement :
 
Juan Pablo Perez Alfonso, one of the founders of OPEC, once compared the world’s fossil-fuel use to “drowning in the devil’s excrement.” There is certainly plenty of evidence supporting his prediction that the fossil-fuel industry, with  its powerful corrupting influence , will “bring us ruin.” Indeed, coal-related corruption stories are breaking worldwide, shining a light on the murky space between “illegal” and “improper” where the extractive  industries  work.
 
 Read:  http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/10/19/coal-corr

In addition ,  it was recently  reported  on TV that air pollution in Beijing was  dangerous  and competitors  in  international  sporting  events  complained .