Shutting coal down a national security risk

The do-no-gooders and the lilly-pad lefties are running around screaming for the closure of the coal industry.

Do they seriously think we are going to tell India, China and the rest of Asia that they can’t buy any of our coal? There is no way that India can afford $90 a megawatt hour for solar. They’ve got no space, unlike Australia. And they have respect for their bird life, so they aren’t going to put four million wind turbines up.

Coal company, Whitehaven, have rightly stated Asia will continue to buy coal for decades.

A truism of history is “if goods don’t cross borders, guns will”.if you take away coal and iron ore, you take away all of Australia’s export earnings and then our country will be bankrupt.

If we listen to the people calling for the closure of coal, then not only will we have an economic crisis, but a national security crisis as well.

BOB KATTER, Kennedy MP.