Climate Radio Covers the China First debate

21st of Feb, 2010

The China First coal mine in the Galilee Basin has been big news from Alpha to the New York Times. This week, Jess Minshall from Climate Radio on 4SER interviewed Brad from Six Degrees to get the latest on this massive deal. The whole episode is worth a listen and you can get it from the Climate Radio website here. The China First Story starts at 19:13.

From the climate radio website:

China-First Coal

Any announcement of a 70 billion dollar coal export deal where 30 million tonnes of coal each year, for the next 20 years, would be shipped from Queensland soil to power stations in China – should create its own confusion. However when Clive Palmer and his company Resourcehouse behind this ‘China First’ project misnamed the Chinese company involved, and that company – China Power International Holding – denied any binding nature of the deal and called it a ‘framework’ only, confusion regarding contractual arrangements got in the way of confusion about how a project such as this could go ahead in the first place. The proposed thermal coal mine site is in the Galilee Basin, near Alpha in Central West Queensland. The Third Degrees Jess Minshall spoke with Bradley Smith, Campaigner with Friends of the Earth Brisbane’s Six Degrees campaign to get an understanding of what impact such an export deal would have.