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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480881903321

Autore

Pearse Guy

Titolo

Big coal [[electronic resource] ] : Australia's dirtiest habit / / Guy Pearse, David McKnight, Bob Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, : NewSouth, 2013

ISBN

1-74224-146-8

1-74224-640-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McKnightDavid

BurtonBob

Disciplina

338.2

Soggetti

Coal - Environmental aspects - Australia

Coal trade - Australia

Coal trade - Economic aspects - Australia

Exports - Government policy - Australia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; About the Authors; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. The Real Price of Coal; 2. The Strip-Mining of Australia; 3. The Barons' Boom; 4. Charm Offensive; 5. King Coal's Muscles; 6. 'Clean Coal' Ruse; 7. Overthrowing Big Coal; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A look at the underbelly of an industry whose power continues to soar even as its expansion feeds catastrophic climate change, this work dissects the Australian coal industry's influence to publicly, and behind closed doors, get its way. The book exposes the myth of clean coal and the taxpayer-funded public relations machine behind it while laying bare the desolation in regional Australia as prime farming land, the fabric of communities, and much else is stripmined along with the coal. Most contentiously of all, Big Coal explores how Aust