Even when not directly responsible for emissions, the Australian mining sector has been notoriously and effectively climate denialist. As an industry, miners ac

Even when not directly responsible for emissions, the Australian mining sector has been notoriously and effectively climate denialist. As an industry, miners actively and successfully lobbied against the “carbon tax” implemented by the Gillard Labor government [0]. In fact, the then CEO of my former employer (Western Mining Corp, 90’s) Hugh Morgan, was then and still is an absolutely single-minded climate change denialist, despite WMC being primarily a nickel and uranium miner (at the time). But what’s even more ironic is the fact that in the election earlier this year, eventual PM Scott Morrison was lambasting the Labor leader Bill Shorten for his proposed policy of a ICE vehicle phaseout, saying that Bill wanted to take away people’s utes and “end the weekend” [1]. [0] https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/miners-dig-deep-to-battle-carbon-tax-20110816-i4c7y https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/miners-dig-deep-to-... [1] https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-09/utes-electric-cars-and-politics/10983298 https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-09/utes-electric-cars...