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Adelaide State Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis has joined condemnation of the Australian National University after it decided to divest shapatagonia south america climatereholdings in seven resources companies including Sbanco patagonia e bankantos.
will stand up against an extremist the gate agenda that seeks to instil fear across the community about your industry, he said.
we will not stand idly by as those that seek a return to the dark ages are able to go unchallenged. used the ANU divestment decision has an example of this.
ANU prides itself on being a celebrated place of intensive research, so to base this decision on nothing more than a symbolic, box ticking exercise, is humiliating for an institution of this kind. said the State Government called on the ANU to reverse it decision and provide an explanation to the blacklisted companies.
State Government will always base its resources popatagonia wetsuits where to buylicy on science and facts, rather than emotion and scaremongering. the decision, ANU Vice Chancellor Professor Ian Young told the ABC: a university like ours, which is, for instance, a major researcher in environment and alternative energy, we need to be able to put our hand on our heart when we talk to our students and to our alumni and to our researchers and be able to say that we re confident that the sort of companies that we re investing in are consistent with the broad themes that drive this university. said the university had been criticised by the environmental lobby for not going far enough.
think we actually taken a measured and responsible way the middle ground in a sense, he told the ABC Lateline.
He also sought to explain the decision in relation to Santos.
company like Santos, for instance, is essentially an oil and gas producer, and so, it may in fact be a very responsible company in terms of a whole range of things that it does, and I sure it is. But because it is primarily an oil and gas producing company, then it will perform ppatagonia kids& retro-x vest - special0oorly on the environmental criteria because it a major source of Co2 emissions, which, as we all know, has a significant impact on climate.
The stance taken by the ANU is actually a move away from the ages of fossil fuels. Institutions such as the ANU have shown real leadership here. We as a people should applaud this move, and remind politicians that we need to move beyond the ages of digging up and burning fossil fuels, which has detrimental environmental, and therefore ultimately human and political, consequences.
We need more sustainable energy alternatives. Unfortunately the mining companies make so much money and are so influential at a political level that politicians are have no option but to emphatically condemn what I think is a really intelligent decision by ANU. The power of the mining lobby actually prevents any sort of deeper political discussion about mining and its long term environmental, human, economic and political consequences. In fact these reaction blatantly illustrate that politicians govern and represent the interests of mining companies and other corporate and financial elites.
Spot on, these companies dress themselves up with their CSR mantras but essentially they harvesting the world resources (which tpatagonia kids& retro-x vest - specialhey pay minimal royalties for), selling them (for profits that largely head overseas), and polluting the atmosphere, which will have massive blow back effects long after they cease to exist. This base capitalism is dark ages shigh quality patagonia bagstuff, at best industrial ages, approach.
The issue is, there so much economic dependence on this production, which governments have tied their raison d to that they can come close to letting it go.
No, the stance taken by the ANU is not a move away from the dark ages of fossil fuels. Woodside Petroleum remains on the books. Five of the seven companies divested have nothing to do with fossil fuels. Iluka produces titanium dioxide, Sandfire copper and gold, Sirius gold nickel and platinum, Newcrest gold copper and silver, Independence gold nickel copper zinc and silver.
Moreover, all these are used (indeed, in most cases are critical components, and not in trace amounts) in the manufacture of wind turbines (copper and zinc), solar cells (titanium dioxide, silver and possibly gold), hydrogen fuel cells (platinum) and intermittent energy storage (nickel). So what the ANU has done hardly represents a move to renewable energy either.
Congratulations to the ANU and its Vice Chancellor, Professor Young, for showing social and environmental responsibility.
The statement by Tom Koutsantonis shows that he is the one in the Dark Ages and not the ANU. Most people who care about the health of the planet and the welfare of human beings and other species on it are phasing out the production of energy from fossil fuels.
We already know that CSG/fracking activities have polluted aquifers and soil on agricultural land. We need to be employing the precautionary principle rather than allowing the fossil fuel companies and the fossil fuel political parties to dictate our energy production plans for the future.
State governments have already allowed corporations in this state to pollute at will without taking responsibility for the dangerous pollution they produce. Examples include the toxic chemicals in Port Pirie soil and water because of the lead smelter; toxic chemicals discarded in the SE sink holes by the forest industries; areas around uranium mines and the cocktail of chemicals (TCE, asbestos and heavy metals) generated by the car manufacturing industry. However, the EPA believes that therepatagonia everlong review quotes are about 1000 contaminated sites in SA.
In the case of the patagonia everlong review treadmillscar industry, governmentpatagonia everlong review under the domes havpatagonia everlong review ubere given massive cash handouts to Mitsubishi and GM in the hope they would continue to produce in this state. We know that nothing was done to make Mitsubishi detoxify its site south of Adelaide to the detriment of many residents at Clovelly Park.
What steps will be taken to ensure that GM will be made to clean ups its site at Elizabetpatagonia kids& retro-x vest - special3h before itpatagonia fly fishing unlimited closes down? I suspect nothing.
The Dark Ages of allowing industries to contaminate without responsibility has to come to an end.
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Our Treasurer may be highly motivated to get the finances and the economy of this state into better shape, but he has not as yet demonstrated that he fully understands thepatagonia kids& retro-x vest - special1 courage and foresight involved in the ANU investment policy. To do that one has to take a long term view, something foreign to most politicians who are interested in quick fixes, certainly not going beyond the electoral cycle. The ANU strategy is debatable but to condemn it the way the treasurer has done indicates either a unwillingness to think deeply in order to understand, or a knee jerk reaction. Whichever it is, the ANU has applied fine minds to its decision. It would be great to have the quality of such minds in the SA government.
Tony Abbott has declared coal is good for humanity while opening a coalmine in Queensland.
The prime minister, who describes himself as a conservationist, said coal was vital to the world and that fossil fuel should not be demonised.
Coal is vital for the future energy needs of the world, he said. So let s have no demonisation of coal. Coal is good for humanity.
