Tag: coal mining
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Why Wreck our Safe Haven for Refugees?
“WILFUL DAMAGE” October 29, 2019 Dear Editor, All those causing Australia‘s wage-earning taxpayers and wealth-creating businesses such inconvenience and monetary losses by so savagely protesting against mining should quietly think through the so-unnecessary and wilful damage they’re doing. Why, for instance, wreck Australia’s economy affording one of the world’s most generous refugee safe-haven programs? Everything…
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Green Pixie Dust Energy Policies
DEMOCRATS FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE WITH RENEWABLE PIXIE DUST, WHILE REST OF WORLD BURNS FOSSIL FUELS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Oct. 1, 2016) — “There’s been a record six straight years of job growth, and new Census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation,” NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt misinformed…
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Ecological Double Standards
WHY CAN LOCALS BLOCK FRACKING, BUT NOT SUPPORT IT … GET WIND TURBINES, BUT NOT BLOCK THEM? by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Aug. 7, 2016) — Donald Trump recently said he supports giving local communities control over hydraulic fracturing. “If some areas don’t want” fracking, the decision should be “up to them,” he commented. Trump supports this…
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Climate Issues We Do Need to Address
WE NEED TO FIX THE CLIMATE OF FRAUD, CORRUPTION, AND POLICIES THAT KILL JOBS, HOPE AND PEOPLE by Paul Driessen. ©2015 (Aug. 30, 2015) — Reeling stock markets across the globe hammered savings, pension funds, innovation and growth. US stocks lost over $2 trillion in market value in eight days, before rallying somewhat, while the far…
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Important Questions for Obama Nominees
INTERIOR, ENERGY AND EPA NOMINEES RAISE SERIOUS QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED by Craig Rucker, ©2013 (Apr. 1, 2013) — In his second inaugural address, Obama pledged to address “the threat of climate change” because no one can avoid “the devastating impact of raging fires, crippling droughts and more powerful storms.” Obama had said nothing…
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Patriot in a coal mine
WHERE ARE OUR JOBS, FREE CAPITALISM AND OUR COUNTRY’S PROSPERITY? Economic analysis by Doug Cook (Jan 12, 2010) — I am going to take these citizen journalism gloves off and tell you a straight story of my America. Your America. I am a bit over 50 years of age, I am at the pinnacle of…