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HomeOpinionWhy not use coal?

Why not use coal?

Rob Atkinson (Chairman – Property Rights Australia) has hit the nail on the head re “Powerlink Queensland” riding rough shod again over our farming community.

There is your answer “No disadvantage Principle”.

Every property the power lines go through will be disadvantaged and devalued, what an insult to all those land owners.

What a gaggle of cheapsakes is our government of the day.

Only Government land should carry the power lines plus the government would have unlimited access 24 hours a day.

How could they put the man on the land through such torment?

This Hydro scheme, what is the estimated cost?

You can bet your socks it will escalate tenfold or more by the time it is finished, like Turnbull’s Hydro debacle.

Why is everyone against coal?

We have the cleanest coal in the world.

China and India are building coal fired power plants at a rate of knots and if we don’t sell them our clean coal, they will buy dirty brown coal from Brazil and other sources.

China and India are two of the worst polluters.

Japan uses our coal and they have perfected a way to burn our coal cleanly.

Europe is switching to Rolls Royce small, safe, nuclear power plants providing power cheaply.

Some countries in Europe – the people are paying little or no electricity fees.

We have huge deposits of coal and uranium in our country,

The way we are going with our antiquated ideas, we the average people will not be able to afford electricity, we are going back to the dark ages.

How can we be so far behind the rest of the world, when we have all the resources in our own back yard?

I would like to know how the governments are going to dispose of all the waste from old solar panels, the hideous wind farms (harmful to human health and our birdlife) and the deadly lithium batteries all highly toxic to mankind?

Do your research, people of Gympie.

It’s all there.

Don’t listen to mainstream media, it’s what the government want you to believe and most of it is orchestrated to achieve their own way.

How dare the government consider going through private farming properties while they have government land available?

Come on you wonderful Gympie folk, let’s get behind our folk on the land.

This is our future.

It makes you wonder – what is their agenda?

– Stephanie Hansen-McLaughlin

Gympie

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