If the Adani mine gets built, it will be thanks to politicians, on
two continents
May 31, 2019 5.54am AEST
Re-elected Indian prime minister Narendra Modi might have helped the
Adani mine in the Galilee Basin to get over the line. southwind.com.au, CC BY-SA
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With the final approval of the Adani
Carmichael coal mine now apparently imminent, it is important to ask
how it has seemingly defied the assessment of experts that it is not
financially viable.
After all, it’s only a week since the
Chinese owner of another mine planned for the Galilee Basin, the China Stone
mine, suspended its bid for mining leases because
of commercial considerations.
The numbers appear not to add up because the location
is remote, the coal would be expensive to transport, and the price is expected to fall.
But such a purely financial analysis
ignores the political forces driving the development of the coal industry in
both India and Australia.
Mates in India, mates in Australia
In short, both are locked into what I
describe as a model of crony capitalism, in which special deals
are handed out to projects such as Adani that tip the scales in favour of
development.
The actions of China and Japan in
deploying enormous state power to export their respective coal technologies to
Southeast Asia strengthens the hands of those pushing such developments.
In my recent book, Adani and the war over coal, I
outline a network of power that for several decades has promoted the
development of Australia’s coal resources in the interests of national and
international corporations.
The mining companies, then the big
four banks became part of it, lending billions in the rush to develop
Australian coal mines as Asian countries sought to lock in long-term supplies.
The Minerals Council of Australia, the New South Wales Minerals Council and the
Queensland Resources Council, with their collective close ties to both
political parties, handled public relations.
Yet they have faced resistance from
the rise of an anti-Adani movement that links grassroots environmentalists,
peak environmental lobby groups and progressive organisations such as GetUp!
By mid-2018, these campaigners seemed
to have backed the Carmichael mine into a cul de sac by scaring off both
Australian and foreign investors. They had also pressured the Queensland
government to withdraw its support for a loan to the project from the
Commonwealth government’s Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.
Then Adani surprised them by
announcing that it would scale back the project and fund it from its own resources. On
the face of it this seemed unlikely, but it had help.
Adani and Modi have history
The chairman and founder of the Adani
group, Gautam Adani, has had a long relationship with the recently re-elected
Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Modi played a decisive role in paving
the way for Adani’s latest mega deal: selling coal-fired power from a plant in
the Indian state of Jharkhand to nearby Bangladesh.
The power for Bangladesh is set to be
fired by Carmichael coal. Many Australians would be concerned to learn that our
coal is to be used to power one of the most climate-challenged countries on the
planet, but we have this on the authority of Adani’s previous Australian-based
chief executive, Jeyakuma Janakaraj.
Twelve days before the 2019 Indian
election date was announced, the Modi government gave approval for an Adani
project in Jharkhand to become the first designated power project in India to
get the status and benefits of a Special Economic Zone, saving Adani billions of dollars in taxes, including clean energy taxes.
The Indian state will provide land,
infrastructure and water for the project and shoulder the burden of pollution.
The cost of the power to Bangladesh is not expected to be cheap.
Will we be asked for more?
Adani’s form suggests it might come
back to Australia for more. Following the re-election of the Morrison
government it is already being speculated that the pro-coal Minister for
Resources, Matt Canavan, will revisit the original proposal for a billion-dollar government-sponsored loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility to construct
the railway from the Galilee Basin to the Abbot Point coal port.
The Adani saga points to a critical
flaw in the Paris climate agreement. It
is an agreement between nation states, but what those states do is often
determined by arrangements between politicians and private companies that feel
no particular obligation to keep global warming to less than two degrees.
We are pawns in a larger,
climate-destroying game.
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I am very grateful to find true thoughts on matters, and the conversation provides this, with permission under creative commons. There is a previous conversation where it is revealed that the Adani mine neeeds water from artesian sources to wet the machine to prevent fire, and to control dust. All reasons to keep coal in the ground!
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Another video for 5G story is
"Why Space X is making Starlink"
YouTube by Real Engineering.
Jan 15, 2019.
One Falcon x rocket can carry 60 satellites (in a string)....
Elon Musk says "it'll cost billions"- plans for 17000 or more....
A comment was "he must have a good reason".
It kept me awake last night.........
Consumers of internet would never be able to pay for it all.
What if it is an alien plan to make a fence around the planet.....
oh dear.
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I watch TED talks. Young engineers love virtual reality and holograms!
Toys. One guy showed how with intuitive robot they got the best design for a drone shape and- it is aerodynamically same as pelvis of a squirrel! (flying squirrel).?
So, if we work in partnership with A.I. we could get fantastic results.
Trouble is, bias and deceit can creep in. AI can make mistakes eg mistake a wolf for a dog, which a human would never do. So it is crucial we are given the position to correct a challenge, not allow AI to have total control.
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The TED talks keep me awake also on other counts.
It seems to me that humanity has been robbed over and over, time and time again.
There is a Remarkable Community online (correction made 22/6/019). Past civilisations have been wiped off by mudfloods, comets, DEW (fasces weapons), leaving only mysterious buildings. It could happen again but many humans are now awake to the deeds of the "controller parasites". We might do things our way without death of innocent people in disasters. See YouTube Silvye Ivanova of newearth channel, Philippe Druzhinin, Charles Kos, Martin Liedtke, Mudfossil University is a favorite of mine, Emily Cragg of Space News Weekly.......and many more, very special humans seeing the world in a new way. The very old Maps of Europe show no glaciers in Iceland....And why does the pale blue and white logo of the United Nations show a flat earth? Something is weird!
You see, I think that in olden times we had abilities to telepath, to teleport, to see into other dimensions eg fairies, Titans, dragons, unicorns, other planets and times; more abilities.
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Every time we had to endure cataclysm it was every man for himself, to cope with the pain and shock. We lost our other dimensional abilities. No wonder the fascination these days with stories of Merlin..... When the human is overloaded with pain there has to be a shut off mechanism, amnesia, to wait in there until peaceful times return and the feelings can be processed and integrated, to learn from the mistakes. Primal Therapy taught that. People could get their true selves back, given the chance. However forces are still against us. Robots would say to erase memories. Then we are lost, we lose our self healing and our Divine nature, in prison, not having learnt the lessons or truth.
Primal story says "we set up situations in our lives, so that we can feel them once again. And connect." Heal those discontinuities. It looks rather mysterious, and we have not solved it yet. Recovered memories became suspect, as well some may be, but much truth could be found. We might as a species be unable to connect until we set up a world with the last blade of grass...however one can hope we can sort it out, together, to save humanity, for there is a good deal worth saving-the living Planet and all us creatures.
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There is a story from the First Peoples of Canada, in "Copper Woman", by Ann Cameron. I used to have this book many years ago. It is said that when blood is spilt, in battle or somehow traumatic, then it needed 3 generations of Peace before the tribe's people were normal and healed again. And "we ain't had those 3 generations."
Another story from Amazon Tribe. A young man leaves the forest to go to the Town. He comes back crazy,unable to join in usual ways. Unable to garden. The elders let him be, for the time, years, it takes for the young man to regain his normalcy on his own, ready to begin gardening again.
We as a Planet species have been multitraumatised, over and over. It seems impossible. Yet something could happen in this Time of the Sixth Sun. All of us together active spiritually, unconsciously even! What if the whole solar system is moving into a hot plasma area of the universe, and the parasites might be cleaned off (for their own good; all beings deserve respect). Anything can happen. I see so much badness and it is real. I am unable to read some chapters of Chris Hedges' book "America The Farewell Tour". I have yet to read "Sacrifice Zones of America". Haunting!
One can only pray for the Highest Good for Everyone to ensue.
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Back to Elon Musk- what is he up to? Did he design all that
tech? Or is it our alien "friends"? Do they think to help
us with their robotic thinking? Do we really need 5G or 6G or all those
toys? 2.5 GHz cooks food. Are they trying to cook us?
.The Starlink video looks like surveillance net all over the planet.
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The FCC is trying to limit 5G to 2.4GHz medium band frequencies rather than high frequencies. 4G works in the 2,4 range and we are not all dying like flies.........but a young woman told me that every time she gets pregnant she gets thyroid problems; her friend gets gestational diabetes. Something is already very wrong. We are warned that use of all these modern devices poses a big risk to the ovaries, in the womb. Grown up girls have babies or not depending on the DNA condition of their ovaries. Grand daughters will suffer...... I have thyroid lumps, might become cancer...
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WE are organic, and spiritual. There could be a way
for us to solve all with a brain dance. More help might come from
our ancestors.....if it is possible; not from robots alone; they are not organic- they are themselves an entity no feelings. This is
how I tend to think and I could be mistaken in many aspects but one never knows
until we put it out there for scrutiny. So thanks for reading thus
far, and have a happy day.
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