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

• Autore: Pearse Guy
• Pubblicazione: Sydney, : NewSouth, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.2
• Soggetto topico: Coal - Environmental aspects - Australia; Coal trade - Australia; Coal trade - Economic aspects - Australia; Exports - Government policy - Australia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: McKnightDavid BurtonBob
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Big coal
• ISBN: 1-74224-146-8; 1-74224-640-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480881903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II