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According to the Guardian, the Green Group Galilee Blockade has urged activists to apply for jobs at the gigantic Carmichael Coal Mine in Australia, so they can obtain sensitive information for use against their employers.
Get a job with Adani and infiltrate coal project, activists urge supporters
Joshua Robertson @jrojourno Thursday 9 February 2017 18.53 AEDT
Galilee Blockade, which opposes the $16bn Carmichael mine, urges followers to apply for jobs with the Indian company.
A civil disobedience campaign targeting Adani’s controversial Queensland coal project has asked almost 12,000 supporters to sign up for a job with the miner.
The Galilee Blockade is working on infiltrating Adani and related companies to gain sources of information to help its plans for “direct action”.
The group is emailing 11,931 supporters over several days to ask them to register their interest in an Adani career via the company’s website.
A Galilee Blockade spokesman, Ben Pennings, said the group was already working with industry insiders, including employees at companies including Rio Tinto, and would help others get appropriate qualifications to join the industry. “The level of support is phenomenal,” Pennings said.
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“We now the mining industry tries to infiltrate the environmental movement, we know they engage state and federal police about targeting activists,” Pennings said. “So as far as we’re concerned we want a level playing field, to get as much info as possible to find out about Adani and the people they’re in bed with.
“We’re hoping employees will provide information to not only us but unions and other groups. But if there’s inside information to help target Adani and their friends, we’ll use it for direct action purposes.”
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The following is from the Galilee Blockade Website;
Work for Adani to Save the Reef!
Big Coal regularly attempts to infiltrate environment groups. We’re going to infiltrate them back!
Adani is asking people to register their interest in an Adani ‘career’. We want you to apply!
We need Adani employees who care more about Aboriginal homelands, the Reef, and the Great Artesian Basin than extra profit for multi-billionaire Gautam Adani.
Of course if the Galilee Blockade campaign gets inside information on Adani and their friends, we’ll use direct action tactics to stop them.
REGISTER TO WORK FOR ADANI NOW!
Do you know anyone who works for a public relations firm, lobbying firm, or political party that deals with Adani?
Do you know about an Adani event that’s not public? Are they attending a political fundraiser or mining industry event?
Do you know whether Adani have donated more money to Labor or the LNP? One Nation or Katter Australia Party maybe?
PLEASE CONTACT US HERE WITH WHAT YOU KNOW
We will protect your identity, seek legal support, and send information to the appropriate authorities if Adani is breaking the law. We’re gearing up around the country for direct action. Donate what you can now so we can professionally train people around the nation. Together we will win.
Source: http://galileeblockade.net/work-for-adani-to-save-the-reef/
I can’t help feeling this new campaign is doomed to failure. For the infiltration plan to work, green activists would have to get a job.
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Won’t the activists lose the dole if they get a job , and I’m assuming the gross wage will see them paying off their hex debts .
That assumes they will apply for the job using their real names.
Who’s gonna give these idiots a job?…. and if Adani does, it deserves everything they do to it.
Just internet search their name, facial features and and social media accounts….. Their activism history and naked pics will be available to all.
Then the employer will be successfully sued for discrimination on the basis of political affiliation. Think I’m kidding?
I heard a documentary about George Orwell. He lived like a bum to research for his book, “Down and Out in Paris and London”. He had no problem passing as a bum. On the other hand, researching for another book, he had difficulty passing as a worker. He found that workers had a culture with which he was completely unfamiliar. link
My guess is that the greenies will have trouble passing as workers. If the company is worried about being infiltrated, it shouldn’t be too difficult to spot the possible infiltrators.
Won’t work. They Won’t pass the drug test.
or the canteen test
ie lack of vegan or macrobiotic options on menus:-)
lol
Exactly. Or the medical/physical.
As anyone who has read John LeCarre will appreciate, this “infiltration” thing can have ‘unanticipated consequences’.
Here in the UK we have a proud(?) recent history of greenie activist / vandals who have fagrantly broken the law, caused mayhem, cost millions of pounds, put lives at risk and then been aquitted by the courts (or at best, been ‘bound over to keep the peace’ for serious offences – despite, in many cases, several prior convictions.
Such is the overarching greenie bias of the ‘elite’ here in the UK.
Perhaps the most remarkable episode in this particular and on-going farce has been the cases of aggrevated trespass, vandalism, and flouting of Health & Safety regulations at Ratcliffe-on-Soar and Drax Power Stations. The activist / vandals were (unusually) convicted by the Courts but the cases collapsed after it became apparent that undercover police officers had been involved.
On one level, even those with a heart of stone cannot fail to be moved by the tragic story of those female protesters who had been seduced by these burly cops. Moved to hysterical laughter, perhaps.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/20/lisa-jones-girlfriend-of-undercover-police-office-mark-kennedy-interview
But, after having convictions squashed and being handsomely compensated (by the endlessly suffering taxpayer) for having their “Human Rights” violated in this cruel way, these poor victims are again free to vandalise again, Mark Kennedy (maybe a greenie ‘double agent’ who infiltrated the police? Who knows?) seems to have only had a finger wagged at him. The ‘victims’ and Kennedy have been lionised by the BBC and newspapers like the Grauniad, have had a play put on stage about them and so forth.
Tax payers and energy users, again pick up the tab.
It’s a funny old world. More often funny=peculiar than funny=Ho Ho.
At the end of the article is a plea for funding, of the Guardian.
Years ago I used read The Observer, a quality well researched paper.It has declined in The Guardian.
In this article the information is well researched,however the attitude of the journalist is to promote a cause,
not to throw light on it and allow the reader to make up his mind about the subject.
Only by being open about bias and prepared to interview everyone, can quality journalism be effected.
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…or some cost-cutting measure like the lack of life-boats and cheap steel on the Titanic. …
I wish people would not idly propagate urban legends. The Titanic was supplied with more lifeboats than regulations demanded, and the steel used, though it would be rejected nowadays, was in most cases the best available without reference to cost, and in all cases well within the design parameters of the time.
Controlling costs is obviously an important part of any engineering design. But the Titanic was built on a ‘costs plus’ contract which lowered financial pressures on the builders, meaning that for the time the Titanic was better equipped and safer than most other ships of her type. The disaster exposed the limits of safety technology, build regulations and accident management at that time, not the greed of the owners or designers…
Good comment. Wrong article.
This is hilarious.
The Australian mining industry is quite small, people know each other, or they know another person who has worked at the applicants previous workplaces. No-one uses the supplied referees, they just ring a mate and have a chat.
Reference checking will find these people out straight away.
On the other hand it would be really funny watching these guys in the team assessment phase fo the selection process!
yup getting into any mine job without a personal ref from a worker or prior work is damned hard
other heavy ind exp might help a first timer
unless they plan to work in canteen or as maids?
which are well paid but…require hard work too.
Yes, it’s an industry with one degree of separation or less…
You certainly don’t want to ever leave a job on bad terms.
A lot of assumptions going on here!
Assumption 1. Is that the average greenie is bright enough to infiltrate.
Assumption 2. Is that the average greenie can infiltrate a coal mine without holding their nose ( a dead giveaway)
Assumption 3. Is that a greenie can shower and wear shoes.
Assumption 4. Is that a greenie can pass an on site drug test.
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Mr Janakaraj [current CEO of Adani] was director of operations of KMC when the company was charged in 2010 with causing a serious pollution spill, which saw a toxic brew of highly acidic, metal-laden discharge released into the Kafue River.
The river is one of Zambia’s largest waterways and a source of water and food for about 40 per cent of the country’s people.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-12/adani-boss-oversaw-mine-guilty-of-polluting-african-river/6920576
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I reckon selling the country to foreigners is a great idea, mate!
It worked so well for our public utilities. No worries, cobber!
Well, the entire project is pointless anyway…
India is going to ban foreign coal by 2020, china is reaching peak coal use, Indonesia has announced caol power phase out.
Dream on!
Meanwhile, Japan is building 45 new coal-fired power stations!
You are an ignorant fool.
Do you have any knowledge of India’s coal fields?
Do you have any clue that India has virtually zero coking coal reserves?
Do you understand that many of their open cut reserves are at the end of their economic life?
You are an arrogant fool if you think you have more insight than the insiders at Adani.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/metals-mining/coal-india-to-produce-71-7-mt-coking-coal-by-fy20/articleshow/53653968.cms
Griff that’s coking coal whereas Adani is thermal coal and India wants to burn it for electricity. That’s the stuff they’re short of and it’s some of the best coal in the world to boot. Both types produce CO2 by the way.
Don’t expect to know the difference.
Heck most of the time he can’t even be bothered to read the articles he cites.
Yes you moron. That is 7% of their total production. My point is proven. Two or three decent steel mills would consume that total quantity.
“Well, the entire project is pointless anyway…”
So the Greenies have hatched a pointless cunning plan? How cunning of them.
Griff and reality. Never the twain shall meet.
Bullshit Griff , have you apologised to Susan yet ?
If genuine polar bear scientists think another scientist doesn’t know anything about polar bears and I quote it, I have nothing to apologise for.
and I stand by what I said directly in reply to Susan’s comment/post.
Translation: I have no shame so I will continue to pretend that I was right.
There is a separation between a ‘polar bear scientist’, and a ‘polar bear advocate’. Which is probably why they chose that field of study in the first place. Talk about complete lack of contextual understanding.
Didn’t you say she had no credentials in the field? Had nothing published in the field ?
And what’s with the comment about you don’t need to be a scientist in a particular field to comment on that field ? Do you know what a hypocrite is Griff , look in the mirror .
@Robert from oz
Here
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/14/more-polar-non-science/#comment-2371523
Griff said
BTW: does Susan actually have any qualifications to speak about bear populations?
She does not research or publish (scientifically) about bears, nor is she involved in the biology of arctic populations, so far as I know.
What she says is surely just opinion? any biologist who has read the papers surely has a view just as valid??
After which ClimateOtter quoted (from Crockford’s website?) a description of her and a summary of her published work. Of the papers listed, seven mention polar bears.
Griff responded by saying that she was doing the wrong sort of polar bear research for him to listen to her.
He then added a piece saying that polar bear researchers (presumably ones who he does listen to) have criticised Crockford in a popular science piece, which piece does not contain the words Crockford or Susan.
He then lists a number of ‘quotes’ from that popular science piece, which also aren’t in it.
So I think that Griff is now saying that he stands behind his inability to quote, scan or even read.
“So I think that Griff is now saying that he stands behind his inability to quote, scan or even read.”
And most especially, tell the truth.
There again, he’s merely doing what he’s paid to do.
Griff translation #2: I have my head so far up my anal cavity I can’t see Susan Crockford’s qualifications, and I can’t hear all your laughing at me either.
The greenies are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy overthinking this.
If they want to dig up dirt, just have Peter Gleick send the CEO’s admin an email…………………………………………
Indeed, do something dishonest to prove your moral position. Morons.
Amazing what you can find down old mine shafts in Australia.
Yeah, how hard could it be for these smiling pink checked freshmen? Egad.
” You dirty rats”!
In my twenties, and being a geology graduate, I worked as a mudlogger on drilling rigs in Oz. The hardest jobs were up in the Kimberleys ( hot and humid at the start of the wet season) , and in Queensland near Quilpie. It was summer, and you could set the clock by the air temp which would reach 42 C at about 13:10. When we hit difficulties and had to trip in and out of the hole a lot (no drilling equals not much for a mudlogger to do) , I’d spell the roughnecks so that they could get a rest and some food. I was fit at the time (rock climbing, surfing) but nothing prepared me for a shift on the drill floor. It’s like being in the gym, only noisy filthy and dangerous, and it goes on for 12 hours. The guys who can do that for a living are as hard as nails. Mining is similarly demanding. These greenflakes wouldn’t last a minute.
Big Brother wants you!
Social Media screening for all applicants and employees. Done. Also screening of all internal email systems for transmittal outside of the company. Done.
I was a whistleblower and I routinely forwarded company emails out of my own company account to a non-company email. Should have been a red flag but I got away with it for several years.
You are an example of the ever present additional tax good people have to pay. Industrial sabotage by employees, anti capitalistic useful fools, global warming …..Do something that adds to the economy – there’s a foreign concept for ya.
In my day this would have been regarded as common-or-garden dishonesty.
A culture of welfare has infiltrated the lower class. A culture of drugs has infiltrated the middle class. A culture of mysticism (e.g. conflation, inference, conjecture) has infiltrated our scientific domain. A culture of a-bortion has infiltrated our daughters’ lives. A culture of spoiled children has infiltrated the first-world.
Progressive Greenie sabotage. Who would have ever thought they would stoop to that?
Coal companies don’t have positions for, “stand on a street corner with a sign that reads, ‘Furniture Barn going out of business blowout sale everything must go 90% off’ “. Too bad though, they would be very good at it.
Well aluminium smelters are beginning to get with the program-
‘Tomago Aluminium said the company’s infrastructure was at risk if power could not be restored.
“This is not on, we should have a reliable power supply,” Smelter manager Matt Howell said.
“We should not be forcing manufacturing to the wall where we simply can’t keep the lights on.”‘
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/agl-cuts-power-to-aluminium-smelter-to-avoid-mass-power-outages-across-nsw/ar-AAmNmTx
Day in the life of an activist coal miner infiltrator:
Awaken at 5 AM,
Center oneself with ten minutes of meditation,
Prepare a modest breakfast consisting of a quinoa muffin with soy butter, two boiled pasture-raised-grain-fed-chicken eggs (just the whites), a hearty six ounces of freshly juiced kale/carrot/apple/banana with a shot of barley grass for good measure, one cup of high-end Greek yogurt as far in front of its “best-used-by” date as possible, and a cup of almond milk, with some special herbs thrown in to ensure emotional balance throughout the day,
Next, a pumice-stone body cleansing to save water,
Unplug the electric car and depart for work,
Report to assigned mine, descend, toil, get really tired,
Drag home,
Call in sick the next day, never go back,
Report to infiltrator headquarters — nothing to report, because the work displaced one too far from one’s center,
Donate the day’s wages to the worthy cause of divesting from coal energy.
Notice that all those protesters look very young. A recent study suggests that 97% of Left wing protesters live in their parents basements. (Not sure if this is true or not, but I thought it was funny)