“Our strategy is to disrupt and delay key projects and infrastructure while
gradually eroding public and political support for the [coal] industry. We
urgently need to build the anti-coal movement and mobilise off the back of the
community backlash to coal seam gas.”
This call to arms was in the Australian Anti-Coal Movement’s Stopping the
Australian Coal Export Boom document, exposed last week and met with wide
condemnation by state and federal governments, the union movement and business.
The aims of the anti-coal movement contained in the secret plan were reported as
“severely reducing” coal exports by “some hundreds of millions of tonnes
per annum” using disrupt and delay tactics.
Attempts to claim the release of this document was an attempt by the coal
industry to distract attention from the visit of UNESCO are risible. On the eve
of the visit, Greenpeace released a document titled Boom Goes the Reef,
premised on predictions of coal export growth that would be impossible to
achieve even in the absence of a regulatory and assessment regime that is among
the most rigorous in the world.
AFR
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