Queensland coal economy going down in flames

It's only going to get worse from here for them. The QLD Lieberal gov refuses to look at anything other than mining it appears. Never mind that their unemployment is the highest in Australia at 6.7%, or that much of the world is actively divesting from fossil fuels and moving to sustainable energy, or that coal and it's price is on the precipice of a spectacular decline in both consumption and price. Nope, don't worry about any of that. Just dig more of the shit up.....

Enter the Adani raping of the Reef coal project up there. Diabolical as it is, this is what the QLD Lieberal gov is pinning an economic recovery on. Yes, make the biggest coal mine in the southern hemisphere, destroy the Great Barrier Reef in the process, and pump out the lot of it to a world that doesn't want it. This is the demented Lieberal logic; it's better to destroy the Reef than invest in renewable energy. 

Instead of a great big mother fucking coal mine, how about a great big motherfucking solar energy construction? How about windfarms? How about research and development to lead the world in renewables - the emerging industry of the future?

The Lieberals aren't a party of business. They're a party of blinkered and stupid ideology. Coal is going down and they can't see past their own fuckin self interest. Mind bending stupidity. What do these coal barons want? For the human race to collectively suicide through coal?

“The resources sector has taken a hit. The world coal price has been pushed down,” he said. 

In 2012, the LNP pledged to deliver 4pc unemployment within six years of taking office but in a speech in February of 2014 to the CEDA economic and political overview, Nicholls changed this to a “stretch target”. 

“We remain committed to our 4% unemployment target and make no apology for the stretch target,” he proclaimed. 

Premier Campbell Newman was his usual upbeat self, promising ten thousand jobs from a new coal mine next year. 

“The Adani Galilee coal project will see, will see ten thousand jobs being created in Queensland,” he said, once again placing Queensland’s future in the hopes of the resources sector. 

Opposition Treasurer Curtis Pitt revealed that 35,800 (seasonally adjusted) more people were now unemployed than when the LNP came to power. - See more