There is one thing that they do not want us to know about with the QLD floods around Rocky & Nth QLD? Most Australians are also unaware of the sheer magnitude in area of these godforsaken hell holes left & created in our Nations fertile surface mostly rural land! I recently flew over these mines around Rocky & it size & devastation is mind blowing!! Where, our Nations mineral resources are being stolen from us along with all our other assets, like our Power & Water etc; etc;! With our coal they give it away for around $3.00 a tonne of which they then sell to our enemies for approx. $300 tonne!! Just like Howard’s gas sale to the Chinese for $0.3 cents per litre CIF!!
We all heard that traitor Brigalow Bligh on the same newscast this morning say that these very hell holes supplied approx. 40% of the world coking coal? Well if this is the case then how come with all of their so called mining booms that they say we have, why have we remained & continually hovering over a minus 0.3 GDP for the last over three decades, plus a $3 Trillion foreign debt that we are only able to pay but for the $100 Mill per day interest bill?? But lastly why then do we have an economy that runs completely on debt when we are supposed to be supplying 40% of coal to the world??
The sad fact is, all this is just the tip of the iceberg? For now unfolding is truly one that no one is talking about or even preparing for?? Not that there will be one single thing that can be done to stop this catastrophe about to unfold or be realised when the rising raging flood waters recede! No I am not talking about the terrible personal devastation & loss that many Queenslanders will suffer which is totally unimaginable to many of us? But one perhaps in a scale so large none can gauge or even contemplate?
First I must say that many farmers know that it is only the native grasses & vegetation that holds the soil together and to help to minimise soil erosion! However once you remove these there is no defence to the forces of Nature! Or yes its worst enemy? Man!! For what I saw from the air over the area & of pictures I have seen of the open cut hell holes all over the Nation there is virtually around the workings, no vegetation or trees over many tens of thousands of Sq km’s!! Mix this with a raging flood & what do you get??
No doubt many of us saw the today’s news footage of the massive towering mine dragline completely submerged except for the very top few feet of the jib protruding from the murky depths? I wonder why they did not give us a more detailed coverage of the waters that have no doubt filled these gigantic caverns that go to the very bowels of the earth itself!
Not to mention the massive run off from the same mountains of the earth's bowels that were turned upside down inside out along with the exposed seams of coal! not to mention the huge massive piles of coal heaped high like huge mountains being stockpiled & ready to be loaded onto coal trains km’s long!!
Perhaps my fears are not justified? Please someone tell me that they are not?
However in my logical mind I know & I fear I am right for where will all this toxic run of from these 100s of 1000s of square km’s of devastation end up??
First over all of the North’s pristine rural lands!! Then into all the Estuaries Rivers & streams throughout four States then yes into the ocean around the Barrier Reef itself!! Just what will settle over all of these sensitive areas after it’s over?
Forget about Global warming this is pure & simple a pollution disaster of a gigantic scale & when it is all over I hope that the media or someone investigates it all & reports it to Queenslanders first & then to the Nation truthfully & accurately !
Kevin Mitchell
"Just what will settle over all of these sensitive areas after it’s over?". Good point.
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