No better than drug dealers?

I can't believe the outrageous hypocrisy of the NSW Labor Government in apparently supporting a new coal mine in the Dooralong and Yarramalong valleys.

Burning coal is one of the greatest contributors to climate change and is reason enough alone to stop this Korean coal mine from proceeding.

I thought that the ALP cared about the environment but apparently I'm sadly mistaken.

No new coal mines should be approved anywhere in this country until clean coal technology is developed.

I doubt it ever will be.

Australia is the world's biggest coal exporter and yet both Federal and NSW Governments continue with "business as usual" despite pretending to care.

We do have a moral obligation to accept that our coal mines are contributing to global climate change as record ship loads of coal sail off to be burnt overseas.

One argument is: if we don't sell coal, someone else will.

I've heard the same argument from illegal drug dealers taking no responsibility for the lives they destroy simply to make money.

Email, 4 Apr 2010 David McDougall, Woy Woy