Showing posts with label Coal Corruption Report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coal Corruption Report. Show all posts

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 .