As I was saying in my post a couple of weeks back, the Australian Coal Association have hired the big guns to help them bully the Government into giving them a massive compensation payout through the emissions trading scheme. Neil Lawrence of Kevin 07 fame, has designed the “coalmine09″ campaign which is running in coal electorates.
In terms of return on investment, it makes sense for them to spend a few million on an ad campaign if they stand to avoid paying up $8 – $14 billion in carbon costs (depending on who you believe) over the next decade.
A little bit of fear mongering goes a long way. Which is probably why various creative people have taken it upon themselves to give the ad a good makeover. I’ve seen two crackers so far.
One of them is from the Hungry Beast. The other is a youtube special. Both very funny.
Check em out.
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Yes I’ll do that, and can you allow my comment to go through on your penultimate post? I copied it onto a Bernard Keane political story so obviously they think it’s fine. It’s based on an ABC radio national Background Briefing show a few years ago, in case you weren’t appraised of it.
The Hungry Beast is to be commended on its outing of the Coal industry’s hypocrisy.
Adelaide has recently told Wriggleys Chewing Gum that if people continue to throw their discarded gum on footpaths, the sale of chewing gum will be banned in the CBD. Wriggleys has previously disregarded complaints about their product, expecting taxpayers to pay the cost of removal of chewing gum wads. Industry must be held accountable for disposal of all wastes from their products. They might have to charge more but users should pay, not taxpayers.
Yeah good to see the Hungry Beast commentary on prime-time TV. Hopefully will get people asking questions who otherwise wouldn’t.
The way the coal industry is begging for government handouts, you’d think they were farmers