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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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“steal proprietary information”
‘sensitive information’
Coal companies? What secrets could they have?
Oh I hope one of them get’s employed and steals corporate info…that results in gaol time!
Mainly good would come from employing many of these people in the mining industry. They would be exposed to the actuality of working in a position in which they could find pride and sense of achievement. They would learn rigorous ways to look at data, to think like analytical scientists about concrete ways to help the fellow man, rather than wasting time thinking about how to be heard at the next protest, a task which they would soon wonder how they got to be involved.
Those Activists better apply for those coal jobs soon otherwise they will be in line behind former EPA management . Going to shut coal down Hillary ? How did that work out ?
The Democrats lost the day they pitted Americans against each other .
They will lose again and again until they get some different sugar daddies who can do a better job of hiding their self dealing interests .
How does it feel Bernie after catering to the green bag men ?
My electricity provider sends me things-
https://www.energyaustralia.com.au/lighttheway?cid=ret|edm|deltal|ltwbl||
“And there is more to come.
Providing reliable, affordable and clean energy for all Australians will not be easy – the reality is, today, new supplies of clean energy are more expensive than existing power. But I’m as optimistic as ever about Australia’s future and believe that by working together – customers, industry and government – we will address this challenge.”
Translation: Expect those wholesale electricity price spikes to be coming your way on top of the highest power prices in the world real soon dude.
Perhaps this link is better- https://www.energyaustralia.com.au/lighttheway
Still laughing….mining is hard work and doubt any of the people would do it for ideological reason…it’s easier to just bitch and moan on social media or maybe share a few memes…
If I were Adani I wouldn’t worry too much about the Greens according to The Australian today 11/2/2017-
“The finances of the NSW Greens “cannot really be described as anything short of disastrous from a financial management/compliance perspective”, according to internal documents which also reveal the Australian Electoral Commission threatened to refer the party to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
Sent by the party’s former state treasurer Margaret Carey, the memo notes that despite the AEC being provided with more details, “the level and scale of the discrepancies” meant it was “unable to form an opinion” about how widespread the donation issues were.’
‘Debbie Gibson, the co-convener of the NSW Greens, last night said the AEC’s audit had been “routine” and “there were no outstanding issues”.’
‘The Australian Electoral Commission was last night unable to comment about the audit, and whether it was ongoing or if it the matter had been resolved. Ms Carey, who is no longer the party treasurer, said in November that the party had been notified that “continued non-compliance with the (Commonwealth Electoral) Act may result in referral to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions”.
“To date we cannot calculate our net financial position for the 2015 state election campaign,” she wrote.
“We have now closed off the 2016 federal election campaign with the unprecedented loss of $328,000.’
You get the impression the worm is turning for these miserable selfish crackers-
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/sea-world-dolphin-show-sabotaged-by-justice-for-captives-animal-activists/ar-AAmP2DJ
Americans voting in Trump might have really lit the global fuse 😉
Are the Chinese and Indians going to hire Australians when mining Australian natural resources?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/09/green-group-urges-activists-to-apply-for-coal-jobs-to-infiltrate-the-carmichael-coal-mine/comment-page-1/#comment-2422016
“Green groups in general are not extremists or likely to commit crimes. That is a disgraceful characterisation.”
Greenpeace is not peaceful. If I was on my sailboat and I saw Greenpeace coming, I would arm myself with a flare gun and crowbar.
Since I work in nuclear power this is not idle thought. At the power plant, I am protected an armed, well trained security force.
Most of the environmental activist I know are nice people. Many even work in the nuclear industry. We know and care about the environment. We are activist because we actively do things to make the environment better.
However, I have met some dangerous and deranged activist who can justify anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World
You can say it: International Workers of the World. Wisconsin teachers could have weighted in with the IWW but NO, they had their ego on the line and pushed the recall and lost. But wait, the Gov is forgiving them as they didn’t IWW up.