{"id":1393674,"date":"2022-03-22T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393674"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T13:30:03","slug":"australia-to-keep-mining-coal-rejects-orders-from-chattering-classes-of-the-u-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australia-to-keep-mining-coal-rejects-orders-from-chattering-classes-of-the-u-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to Keep Mining Coal: Rejects Orders from &#039;Chattering Classes of the U.N.&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustralia-to-keep-mining-coal-rejects-orders-from-chattering-classes-of-the-u-n%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The protection of liberal, democratic values is a more important short-term goal than reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian lawmaker said Tuesday in response to the U.N. singling out Canberra for defying its order to ditch coal as part of the reset world.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was asked to respond to remarks made by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who publicly called out Australia for its rejection of an emissions reduction plan set to be fully activated by 2030.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The U.N. chief used an address to a sustainability summit in London to take a public swipe at wealthy G20 nations\u2019 climate change policies while shaming \u201choldout\u201d Australia, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/21\/u-n-chief-guterres-says-endure-high-gas-prices-for-the-good-of-the-planet\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA growing number of G20 developed economies have announced meaningful emissions reductions by 2030 \u2013 with a handful of holdouts, such as Australia,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>He slammed the purchase of coal as a \u201cstupid investment\u201d and warned countries against sliding back to fossil fuels in response to the global energy turmoil caused by Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.N. Chief Guterres Says Endure High Gas Prices for the Good of the Planet<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VxHFt37LNI\">https:\/\/t.co\/VxHFt37LNI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1505876884210528260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Joyce was having none of it, news.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/environment\/climate-change\/holdouts-un-chief-antonio-guterres-slams-australia\/news-story\/59df9eb23507eb1962115c82ac33ad72\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Guterres\u2019 comments on Tuesday,\u00a0 Joyce acknowledged climate change but said countries must ensure the security of their energy supplies amid the supply chain turmoil driven by Eastern European conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a statement of facts that the Poles, trying to make sure that they secure the capacity to keep their people from freezing to death, are buying our coal,\u201d he told reporters in the rural Queensland town of Proserpine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20311301\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1236487023-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A bucket-wheel dumping soil and sand removed from another area of the mine in Newcastle, Australia, the world\u2019s largest coal exporting port. Australia\u2019s conservative leaders have defied calls for urgent climate action, boasting they will sell coal for as long as anyone is buying. (SAEED KHAN\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He then reiterated his belief Australia \u201cmust become as strong as possible as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>His comments align with the governing conservative coalition\u2019s pre-election pitch to voters it is the better choice for national security than the left-wing challengers from the opposition Labour party.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce argued now was not the time to focus on emissions reduction even as other globalist agencies urged governments to restrict social activities of citizens to conserve fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, climate change is an issue, but right now, we have an issue of how we keep people safe, how we keep people fed, how we assert our liberal, democratic views, the right of the individual,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The world must stop building new coal power plants and instead embrace green alternatives in a post-coronavirus reset world, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kpaXCBthFx\">https:\/\/t.co\/kpaXCBthFx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1328328291988742147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have to acknowledge the issues pertinent to climate change, but we must be a realist about the circumstances that are before us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Communications Minister Paul Fletcher agreed. He also brushed off the U.N. criticism, claiming Australia was outperforming like minded countries such as the U.S., Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chattering classes of the U.N. can say what they want,\u201d he told the ABC. national broadcaster. \u201cWe have beaten our Kyoto targets. We\u2019re very confident we\u2019ll meet our Paris targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some 300,000 Australians\u2019 jobs rely on the coal sector. The Minerals Council of Australia itself says the coal industry directly employs 50,000 workers while supporting another 120,000 jobs, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/08\/australia-rejects-cop26-climate-summit-demand-to-stop-selling-coal\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protection of liberal, democratic values is a more important short-term goal than reducing greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian lawmaker said Tuesday in response to the U.N. singling out Canberra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}