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March 21st 09, 08:55 PM
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It Won't Hurt A Bit. Yeah Right.
When 'BOZO' speaks/posts, idiots listen!
On Mar 18, 10:41*pm, "oobzn" wrote: March 19 2009 Keith Orchison is rightly sceptical of airy green claims that slashing emissions won't hurt because we can just move workers from gassy jobs to green ones: Most of the Australian green jobs talk seems to have its genesis in a mid-2008 CSIRO study - commissioned by the environmental movement - that predicted a tough emissions trading scheme would create a green-collar workforce over two decades, but added that more than three million workers would need to be retrained. The CSIRO report appeared well before the global economic tsunami hit these shores - ... but it made one observation that is still highly relevant. Thirty per cent of Australian workers, it noted, are employed in the industries that create up to 90 per cent of the carbon impacts, including: agriculture, food and drink production, mining, petroleum, manufacturing, aluminium production and road transport. Shifting them to green jobs seems highly improbable. Orchison gives an example of how easily Labor could kill thousands of a jobs at just a single project with its planned emissions trading: Hydro Aluminium Kurri Kurri ... operates a Hunter Valley smelter and provides 2500 direct and indirect jobs in the region. The company is evaluating a $4 billion investment in the smelter ... If the project goes ahead, it will generate 3000 new long-term jobs and 15,000 construction jobs over three years. But the company points out: "The investment is contingent on the regulatory regime in Australia (including emissions trading and the renewable energy target) not materially eroding competitive advantages." If emissions trading and the renewable energy target do erode the company's competitive advantage, not only will the expansion be dumped but the future of the existing operation would have to come into question, with the potential loss of 2500 actual jobs as well as the 15,500 potential ones from the expansion. http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a.../heraldsun/com... Warmest Regards Bonzo |
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