Who's behind this campaign?
The NSW Minerals Council is the umbrella group for the (mostly transnational) mining companies that exploit the resources of NSW (mostly coal). The NSW Minerals Council is the tool with which they lobby politicians and run public relations campaigns to allow them to continue and expand their destructive mining operations.Frightened by growing public concerns with the impacts of the NSW coal industry on global climate change, and growing community opposition to their plans to open up scores of new coal mines, the Minerals Council have started an expensive advertising campaign to convince the people of NSW that we can't live without coal mining.
Most people will see straight through their tactic, and will wonder why the coal companies are not using their massive financial resources for more community-minded pursuits, like funding a just transition to a sustainable future.
This web site was created by Rising Tide Newcastle in order to expose the misinformation, propaganda, and the vested interests of the NSW Minerals Council. This web site aims to present the facts and science behind coal mining and climate change - facts that are supported by the vast majority of scientists around the world. Rising Tide's website is www.risingtide.org.au.
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Before you can make a decision on whether the information you are given is worth reading, you should know who has an economic interest in what information. This is expecially true in the politics of climate change, where the global minority with the most wealth stand to lose a lot if we do change (air-con, speedboat, plasma tele, all that jazz), while the global majority of the poor have even more to lose, including homes, food, and lives.There are plenty of websites available with valuable and insightful information on them. Here are a few that, as far as we know, have no economic interest in pushing one side of the debate or the other:
- RealClimate.org: climate science by climate scientists.
- ClimateIMC.org: Climate Independant Media Centre.
