Is Garrett a Hypocrite?

[Ghetto23]

Peter Garrett approves a uranium mine in SA - now he's being called a hypocrite?

Aren't the hypocrites the ones that preach about climate change and carbon emissions then are happy to see the govt start up old fossil fuel stations instead of approving a certain more efficient source of energy?

 

[So_Cynical]

Garrett has taken the hard road into a political career, he could of easily won a seat for the greens and spent years achieving nothing...instead he wisely chose to join labor and try and achieve a green agenda from the inside, in a position of some power.

Hypocrite no...hes a Cabinet minister.

 

[MrBurns]

Yes

 

[johnnyg]

Garrett is an Idiot.

I hear he has a smoking hot daughter though.....

 

[sam76]

Garrett is an Idiot.

I hear he has a smoking hot daughter though.....

 

[explod]

Just following bloody common sense.

Nucluar power for the future, though it has inherent dangers is a no brainer. The yank subs with one light up have gone for 40 years of wonderful steam power with no pollution (cept the little bit left over, jettison to outer space maybe) The French power stations are now almost perfect, suspended in water, and the waste back into the furnace.

PLA and any good copper plays is where we investors are headed.

Garret really had no say, just the way we have to go.

We all learn eventually and those who had a good childhood like he did may be the best in the long run

 

[trainspotter]

"If the blue sky mining company don't save me .... who's gonna save me?" CSR was the target in this case but there was a song called "Dead Heart" that dealt with this topic.

Did not Peter Garrett sing this and was a STAUNCH anti nuclear opponent?
Did not the whole Midnight Oil junket champion the good fight? No matter how small the cause?

He has changed his thinking and opened the Four Mile Mine in S.A

"I joined the Labor Party, I became a member of the government," he said.

"And I said at the time that I would accept as a team player the decisions that government took. "

Shame Peter Garrett, SHAME !

 

[MrBurns]

I think nuclear power is the way to go. it's safe now not like it was in the early days.
But Garrett is a hypocrite regardless.

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Is the Pope a Catholic?

gg

 

[trainspotter]

We are not talking about NUCLEAR POWER ... we are talking about ripping a hole in the ground and digging up uranium ore. It will be sent to some foreign country to be refined into Nuclear Rods capable of running a power station.

Director of Four Mile Mine Patrick Muntz said: "If we are in production by 2010, which we think we will be, we will be the highest grade ISR (in-situ recovery) mine in the world and the largest."

Greens MLC Mark Parnell said the approval of Four Mile was deeply disappointing and said the proposed in-situ leach method was not world's best practice as claimed.

"The in-situ leaching process is highly controversial," he said.

"Pumping acid into the soil and aquifers will leave behind acid and radioactive wastes for many years to come."

Shame Peter Garrett, Shame. Where are your morals?

 

[Calliope]

"I joined the Labor Party, I became a member of the government," he said.

"And I said at the time that I would accept as a team player the decisions that government took. "

Shame Peter Garrett, SHAME !

What this means is he was ready to prostitute his principles for the Party. He knew that you can't be a Labor politician and have principles when he joined them. His principles were pretty shonky in the first place.

 

[MrBurns]

We are not talking about NUCLEAR POWER ... we are talking about ripping a hole in the ground and digging up uranium ore. It will be sent to some foreign country to be refined into Nuclear Rods capable of running a power station.

Fair enough, Garrett is s fake no doubt about it, hope he tanks at the next election.

 

[trainspotter]

OR creating nucler weapons. In it's lowest form a possible dirty bomb which does not have the impact ie leave a great trail of destruction behind it, but more like radiation poisoning that will slowly kill you with cancer, leukemia , lymph node destruction etc etc etc.

Where doe the waste end up? The 7 mile trench? Shot into space? Buried in our own backyard? OR "D" all of the above?

 

[prawn_86]

He is a politician, so therefore Yes to the question, but not due to the topic described in the opening post

 

[nunthewiser]

saw him play a whole concert in a gas mask once . was in a west Australian hotel years ago .it was great . arms flying , head shaking strobes hitting his unique dance moves

as a politician i think he is a wanka and a two faced one at that

great live music tho

 

[explod]

What this means is he was ready to prostitute his principles for the Party. He knew that you can't be a Labor politician and have principles when he joined them. His principles were pretty shonky in the first place.

But he at least has the balls to change. If we we all less rigid and measured the problems and realistic, achievable solutions. i.e. stop and think ... we may get some progress.

I applaud the decision.. Garret on a personal basis, could not care less, the bigger problems are greater than that.

 

[noco]

The only truth Peter Garrett spoke was that "everything they won the election on will change when Labor got into power".

WHEN ONE IS TIED TO THE LABOR PARTY you toe the line or get expelled if you speak out against the Labor Party machine. He is nothing more than a puppet who has to do what he is told.

I wonder how much donation was feed into the Labor Party coffers to get this approval of this new uranium mine.

 

[explod]

The only truth Peter Garrett spoke was that "everything they won the election on will change when Labor got into power".

WHEN ONE IS TIED TO THE LABOR PARTY you toe the line or get expelled if you speak out against the Labor Party machine. He is nothing more than a puppet who has to do what he is told.

I wonder how much donation was feed into the Labor Party coffers to get this approval of this new uranium mine.

Talk about blind bias, little Johnny did not let anyone speak out, or if they did they were his bullets of bull...t. At least the Laobor Party stick to an overall party line, well worked out beforehand.

 

[trainspotter]

1986 Blackfella / Whitefella tour, Darwin Apmitheatre, Botanical Gardens. Oils were in their prime and Peter Garretts eclectic dance routine entertained. The music hit a chord that sang through the hearts of the assembled crowd on the hill that thrummed and weaved with every stroke of Rob Hirsts drum kit. Especially when "Power & the Passion" drum solo kicked in the second bracket.

Garrett's first attempt at entering politics was in 1984, when he co founded the Nuclear Disarmament Party and stood for a seat in the Australian Senate in New South Wales at the December 1984 federal election. He needed 12.5% of the vote to win a seat in the Senate voting system, but a primary vote of just over 9% was insufficient when Labor gave its preferences to the conservative National Party ahead of the NDP.

The ALP recruited Garret to give then 'Green cred'....to ensnare the votes of people who followed Garret's idealogy on the environment and Uranium issues. Those who voted for him and the ALP in general because they 'had' him in the Party have been duped by both he and the ALP....and should therefore feel aggrieved and sold out by them.

So the beloved ALP masters gave their preferences against him in the NDP and gave them to the National Party and now he is the Environment Minister for the ALP !!!!!!!!

Hypocrite indeed !!!

 

[explod]

This clean coal thingo is a joke and too expensive to do anything of value. In the meatime good clean techonogy has a long way to go before it will meet our power needs. Neuclear at least will hold things together over the next century till we can develop proper alernatives.

Who really caress about Garret. Life is too short to waste it on nerds.