From Stuart Bocking, CEO Coal Australia
Coal producers in NSW and Queensland are well placed to take advantage of the ongoing demand for coal from our near neighbours as global consumption in 2024 rose to an all-time high of 8.77 billion tonnes.
Australia says NSW coal
royalties generated $3 billion
in 2023-24
According to data from the International Energy Agency, this represented a 1.2% increase in consumption on the previous year – global demand for coal keeps rising.
Despite some of the views presented as facts, these figures hardly speak to a commodity that is on life support. And while some people continue to campaign for an end to coal production, doing so would have no impact on global demand.
NSW and Queensland would simply deal itself out of billions of dollars’ worth of prosperity. Many communities across the state depend on the sector for employment and revenue.
Look at Queensland, I was recently in Moranbah and having boarded my flight in Brisbane at 4.50am, you couldn’t help but notice that the first four or five domestic flights that morning were all headed to coal mining central. That alone speaks to the importance of the coal sector – it remains Queensland’s most valuable export, and is an economic driver of jobs, investment, communities and the many associated businesses which thrive on coal mining.
Take NSW. In 2023/24, coal royalties generated $3 billion for the state’s economy and are forecast to top $13 billion over the next four years.
Imagine if that revenue was suddenly no longer available to NSW coffers – there would be impacts to roads, schools, hospitals, and law and order; to name but a few.
You only need to see the procession of ships off Newcastle port or the trains snaking their way through the Hunter to understand the significant economic impact of coal in NSW.
Near neighbours in Asia such as India, Japan, China, and South Korea continue to demand Queensland’s top quality thermal and steel-making coal – it is vital to the economic prosperity of these countries, and we can feel proud knowing that not only is Queensland coal delivering jobs and prosperity here, but also across the Asia Pacific.
When it comes to generating electricity, there is no developed and prosperous nation around the world that is energy deficient. It underpins everything.
Domestically, thermal coal continues to do the heavy lifting in our own energy mix – for the 2023 calendar year, 62.3% of the electricity generated in Queensland was from coal.
In NSW, coal accounted for 62.8% of the overall energy mix, while in Victoria it was 57.7%. Coal remains key to delivering reliable and affordable baseload power.
These are the facts – and if you want the source; it is no less than the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water.
This only serves to underline why respective state governments in NSW and Victoria have extended the lifespan of key coal-fired power generators – the Eraring plant in NSW still provides 20% of the state’s electricity.
And that is why the coal sector is still so important – but of course there are challenges.
The approvals process for mine extensions and expansions has become increasingly complex; and even if a proponent is successful, the project still needs to run the gauntlet of Commonwealth approvals.
The emissions profile of projects has come into sharper focus in NSW, while the Commonwealth’s Safeguard Mechanism is imposing increasing costs on producers. In Queensland, the previous government’s decision to impose the world’s highest royalty regime on the coal sector, without consultation, has created uncertainty for investors and a sovereign risk where Japanese partners have taken a strategic stake in mine operations in Queensland.
This creates uncertainty for investors, and no one should ever underestimate the intensive capital requirements of these projects – if it was simple and risk-free, everyone would be doing it.
Coal mining operations are long-term plays, well beyond one or even two electoral cycles, and with all manner of potential pitfalls including regulatory changes, royalty tweaks, weather events and geo-political events.
By the time you factor in fluctuating coal prices and foreign exchange rate movements, the risks continue to mount.
Our producer members accept these risks, and that is very good news for both NSW and Queensland because without these projects, thousands of direct and indirect jobs would be lost, along with corporate and payroll taxes, royalty revenue, investment, and prosperity.
That would be a very high price for us to pay.
Shane Sigley said – “… The Next Little Ice Age…”
Good post Shane.
The inconvenient truth that hardly anyone has woken up to yet.
But people WILL start waking up once we all start freezing our nuts off in the next five or six years. The slide to the cold snap has already started, for anyone who’s been watching. Good luck with all those super-expensive self-destructing BS wind towers and buckets of solar panels, eating up all our forests and farmland, when they’re covered in ten feet of ice and snow.
Strange, isn’t it, how the baby-eating Luciferian mongrel arsehole bastards entrenched throughout or fake corporate “governments” are Hell-bent on shutting down all the abundant cheap power sources that might otherwise see us through the coming natural cyclic global catastrophe?
We sell off all our natural gas and coal to foreign countries for a PITTANCE, while we’re not allowed to use it for the benefit of the Australian people right here in Australia. All our coal-fired electricity production has been BULLDOZED by ideological psychopaths, and you might have noticed that our mass-murdering baby-eating “elites” don’t feel ANY of the pain, but WE sure do.
Same with all that Uranium, folks, we dig up all that Yellowcake and sell it off overseas, but we’re not permitted to even THINK about exploiting that abundant natural resource to provide power to Australia. We have 40% of the world’s known Uranium reserves, folks, but WE’RE not allowed to USE it, it just gets sold off around the world to power HUNDREDS of Nuclear Reactors in foreign countries.
Remember that old song, folks? “Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink!” That’s US, folks, that’s Australia – “Energy, energy, everywhere, but not a drop to use!”.
Because we give it ALL away just so we can all suffer and die MISERABLY at the hands of our fake corporate Satanic “government” and their foreign owners while they all live UNTOUCHABLE lifestyles of obscene wealth and privelege literally at our expense.
Sucks to be us, really it does. Sturdy ropes and lamp posts might not fix the problem, but as Alice so aptly said – “It’s a start!”.
The Next Little Ice Age and Why Net Zero is a Crime Against Humanity
The last little ice age is known as the Maunder Minimum which began in 1645 AD and ended in
1715 AD. Check out Wikipedia. Little ice ages are a repeating cycle of between 350 and 400 years.
The earliest starting year for the next little ice age is the starting year of the last little ice age plus
350 years which means the next earliest little ice age starting year was 1995 AD. The latest starting
year for the next little ice age is the starting year of the last little ice age plus 400 years which
means the next latest little ice age starting year is 2045 AD. The year now is 2025 AD and the next
little ice age has not started yet. This means that the next little ice age will start within the next
twenty years. There is something we have today that the people of the fifteenth century did not
have. We have science if rightly applied. Is ‘green science’ rightly applied? Please read on.
Valentina Zharkova, a professor at Northumbria University has calculated the starting year for the
next little ice age is 2031 AD and will end in 2042 AD. Check out her data here:
https://solargsm.com/ Assuming she is correct, we have just six years to ‘freezing weather’ (her
words). This next little ice age will last eleven years from 2031 AD to 2042 AD. She is very
concerned that we are not ready for this next little ice age. I think she is right.
Net Zero goals set for 2030 will have our electricity grid without stable and robust energy
generation in the form of either nuclear power stations or coal fired power stations which means the
grid will collapse, possibly long term. With our dependence upon electricity for almost everything
we need to survive, we are very vulnerable to grid down events. Experts claim that a grid down
event which is likely in extreme cold weather, may last days, even weeks or months. Such an event
experts claim will result in a death rate of high proportions. It is too late to build the power stations
we need to get through this next little ice age. I believe this is deliberate and that the planning for
this unprecedented crisis came from within the walls of Vatican City. This crisis is targeted towards
the northern Europeans and in particular the Anglo Saxon nations as we take on the burden of Net
Zero. The origin of this hatred towards us is Magna Carta and later, the Reformation. The Papacy,
correctly identified in Holy Scripture by Protestants as the Antichrist, knows we will never
surrender our freedom and they have determined to destroy us. Brexit confirmed we resist Rome.
There are solutions to the coming crisis but our politicians are captured by their handler, the Pope,
who will make certain we all perish from starvation and freezing weather. That’s their speciality –
Death!!! Have you noticed that the state and national leaders take no notice of the people the past
few years. They lock us down and force a bio-weapon upon the people and just recently these
murderers get the highest accolades that the king can bestow and for what? Murder!!! These
national and world leaders are the Sorcerer’s Apprentices to do his bidding. Revelation 22:15 “For
without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever
loveth and maketh a lie.” The Pope’s purposes will be defeated. Remember our deliverance
throughout our history – the Spanish Armarda, Dunkirk, WWII and many more. (For Your
Refererce: We have a Guardian by WB Grant 2011; The Secret History of the Jesuits by Edmond
Paris 1975; History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by JH Merle d’Aubigne 1846; The
Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop 1959; 50 Years in the “Church” of Rome by Charles Chiniquy
1985; Roman Catholicism by Loraine Boettner 1986; A History of Engand by Keith Feiling 1966;
The Holy Bible, King James Version 1611; My fb page) God is in control, don’t forget that. With
every miracle and deliverance of God there was a people in prayer and repentance. Many are
coming to realise that only God can bring them out of the difficulties they are faced with, as a
nation. God is waiting for us to cry out to Him. When this happens Deuteronomy 3:22 will be
invoked: “Ye shall not fear them: for the Lord your God He shall fight for you.” Isaiah 54:17 says
“No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” I’m sorry this news is a shock to you.
Deceit is the first weapon of war and the truth is it’s first casualty. Our politicians are liars, traitors
and hellhound. Please accept Christ as your Lord and Saviour. There is no hope apart from God
either on a personal or a national level and there is nothing we can do to earn our salvation. Six
years and the clock is ticking!!! (Postnote: The antipathy of the Papacy towards the Anglo Saxons
goes deeper, much deeper.)
Commenter elle
Don’t worry the plan is to get us on Global rate $2/hour and then it will be ok for government to charge royalties, good boy Elbow done your job.
Apparently the Queensland Minister for Energy David Janetzki, will release their new five-year energy road map on October 10, 2025 to provide certainly to the industry.
It suppose to replace the red teams energy and jobs plan for that sector and will outline the role of coal generation alongside other energy sources like wind, solar, gas, and batteries.
The blue team has already signalled a departure from Labor’s renewable energy targets and has introduced legislation to stop renewable energy projects in state forests. Not sure if that also includes protecting farmland and farmers from transmission lines etc too.
I doubt it will include a new coal mine as Chrisi fooli just went to Japan saying Queensland has a lot of coal to “sell” them more like give it away for nothing than about building more plants here for domestic, business and manufacturing use here, or reducing red/green tape for ALL businesses too.
Don’t think when he visited Impex in Japan and handed them a backdated invoice for gas royalties/taxes.
Never mind, as this uniparty communist takeover government and every similar government on earth are now breathing their very last breaths, and coal will become accessible if needed, and free energy from the ether has already been discovered and invented into usable form, so power prices will almost disappear.
We are on the brink of change not just for the better, but you will be amazed at what is coming that will thrill you.
Elbow has the answer to political uncertainty: communism !
Nett Zero is dead, lying in state but still twitching. In WA Roger Crook has said he will cut housing red tape !!! Where the state legislation is overruled by federal, he will have an excuse to have another holiday instead of dismantling all the rubbish of previous parliaments. How these people think they are expert enough to keep changing things all the time is beyond comprehension. They have so much self-belief when they are just a bunch of seat-warmers and lying salespeople. Even simple things like the CO2 scam are well beyond their public persona’s ability to discern. We may as well have a busload of retards most of the time, it would save money. Those public servants providing cover are very, very expensive.
We’ve got the bauxite (aluminum) and iron ore PLUS THE COAL. Australia should be producing the finished metals and shipping those out. – However, instead of that, we have the government and ‘Greenies’ carping on about Climate Change and ready at an instant to shut everything down.
The federal government is moving to restrict what can be obtained via Freedom Of Information (FOI) requests…
Major online censorship goes hand in hand with increasing government secrecy…
Professor Werner nails it:
https://t.me/c/1244215106/4179
UNFORTUNATELY ALBANESE AND CO ARE DOING THIER BEST TO DESTROY AUSTRALIA’S ECONOMY AND INDUSTRY THEY DON’T WANT COAL OR STEEL PRODUCTION AS IT WOULD UPSET THE UN’S PARIS CLIMATE BS.
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