New climate change website

You know you are having some effect when the coal lobby wants to shut down a website!

The powerful coal industry lobby group, the NSW Minerals Council, has been attempting to censor the climate change debate by getting their lawyers to shut down a community based climate change website.

The website is a parody of the NSW Minerals Council's big budget public relations campaign to promote the virtues of the coal industry. Climate activist group Rising Tide built the site to highlight the growing contribution coal exports make to climate change.

This is an extraordinary case of censorship by the powerful coal industry. The NSW Minerals Council is pulling out all stops to censor public debate on the deadly impact of coal on our climate at a time when robust open debate on the future of coal is urgently needed.

A recent Hunter survey that showed more than half of people in the Hunter now feel the negative impacts of coal far outweigh the positive benefits, has pushed the powerful coal lobby to this desperate measure.

People in Newcastle want real action on the climate crisis.

Check out...
NSW Mineral Council's coal PR spin website
Rising Tide's coal impact website