Like the ancient kraken, waking from the deep, or perhaps like a rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem, Lloydie of the Amazon has woken from his slumbers and turned up to celebrate Dan "the man" Tehan ...
But there seems to be some kind of induced energy lethargy, because Lloydie could only manage two brief gobbets, as he celebrated the deep north's commitment to the coal industry - what could possibly go wrong? - a return of the climate wars, and pending victory on action on climate change via "pragmatic common sense":
Ah, got to make the planet safe for the lizard Oz's "superintelligent" answers to everything, though "42" would save a lot of coal.
The pond asks again, what on earth could go wrong, and luckily had saved up an infallible Pope to provide an answer ...
Meanwhile, the bromancer decided to revert to full Trumpism, and what could possibly go wrong?
Read that line and weep: "On policy substance, most of the merit rests with Trump".
Muh lud, is there a counterpoint?
Well, you could turn to Paul Krugman, in a missive which came to the pond via email but which could be found on Substack here ...
Well yes, all that and more at the link, with musical coda, and what a relief to find there's some sanity left in America, but sadly not in the bromancer ...
Rest easy, tech bros, the bromancer has your backs ...
Or better still, imagine the reptiles in charge ... if you dare ...
And so it's back to that tired old both siderism, "Trump has done good and bad things", and it's all the fault of left wing critics and never mind those who have avoided ideology and retained a shred of sanity ...
Very early this morning, this was the headline that greeted the pond ...
The reptiles never sleep, but the pond thought it should at least allow Geoff to chamber his round ...
Almost bromancerish - there can be no higher praise - what with that agitation about lefties taking a view on the mad king ...
Geoff continued his dirge ...as a snap showed the extreme distance Albo had put between himself and the Donald ...
Finally it was time to moan about awards ...
All this posing in public? What could possibly go wrong?
With the intermittent archive on the blink, or at least being spoofed by the lizard Oz, the pond's usual tactic - a note observing her presence, a quick despatch to the intermittent archive, and moving on - won't work.
At the same time, it's incredibly easy to offer up some screen caps as a reminder of the power behind the throne which led to the early demise of the hapless onion muncher's reign.
The pond realises that screen caps have no charm, and are just deployed in the pond's current never ending moving emergency, which will continue for some weeks.
They're just a brutalist way of flinging together a blog post quickly, but time is short, and the petulant one is all on board with the Dan "the man", and so attention of some kind had to be paid ...
The pond realises that a triumphant Petulant Peta can become an unnerving, nauseating experience - that talk of "climate nonsense" being consigned to history might send those with the slightest awareness of science spiralling out of control, but the pond promises that it will be done and dusted in three gobbets, and that the furriner bashing is up there, or more correctly, down there with Dame Groan ...
Where would the reptiles be without furriners to bash? (But then where would Herr Adolf have been without "cosmopolitans" to bash?)
Cue a stern-looking beefy boofhead to set up the final gobbet ...
There, done in three gobbets, and no damage done, apart from the odd rush to the toilet for a heave.
What an inspiration for those into fear, loathing and general hysteria the petulant one is, and what an inspiration King Donald is ...
Don't you worry about the meek and the mild and the suffering, just set Killer on to them and he'll worry them to an early death, like a dog sensing blood with a lamb in the Tamworth sun ...
From the pond's observation of those who've made a living doing hard yards yakka, 65 can still be a stretch.
The shearers in the pond's extended family all developed back problems that made life extremely hard in their later years, and the pond guesses that the worst Killer has suffered is the occasional wrist and finger strain from extended keyboard use ...but that's the name of the Killer game. If you've spent a life doing manual labour, you're a disposable item.
The real players, the contented oldies, are generally are rich as Croesus in Killer's world ... we are all Lydians now:
If the pond has one wish left, it's that Killer gets old, but the pond guesses that he's managed to build a nice nest egg, and to hell to those left behind ...and what's a little tendonitis in the wrist?
Now on with bashing unfortunates who might be on struggle street for one reason or another:
Back to sheltered workshops, you heathens and bludgers, Killer of the IPA has spoken ...
And so to the immortal Rowe to round out this day's offerings ...and what could possibly go wrong?
That really is a truly noble chair ...
So many temptations ...
So many audio distractions ...
So the Lloydstone reckons that: "Canberra establishment waking from self-induced energy lethargy".
ReplyDeleteI'll say, look at just what it's achieved:
"Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge".
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/22/solar-and-wind-generation-record-80-percent-australia-national-grid
And fresh in, another perspective on our (yes, 'our') mineral resources, from the conservative-free ABC
Delete'Bowen Coking Coal walks away from Bluff coal mine and leaves rehabilitation to state government'. For 'State Government' read 'Queensland taxpayers'.
Rehabilitating an open-cut coal seam - couple blokes, a ute and one of them spray-grass thingies orta do it. I mean, coal is, well, carbon, innit? Plants should lap it up.
Oh Chadwick! "Rehabilitating an open-cut coal seam - couple blokes, a ute and one of them spray-grass thingies orta do it."
DeleteOrtadoit...
"Over four decades, Glencore’s Newlands coal operation in Queensland’s Bowen Basin produced approximately 229 million tonnes of coal. It left behind 25 open-cut pits, two underground workings, two coal preparation plants, and 32,000-plus hectaresof disturbed land across 15 mining leases. Closure and restoration work at the site has drawn down more than $330 million in capital expenditure to date.
"Here is the number that reframes all of that: as of August 2026, the Queensland Government has granted formal certification across just 614 hectares of the total lease footprint. That is less than 2% of the total lease footprint. The gap between the money spent and the area verified tells you more about what mine closure actually demands than any provision line item on a balance sheet.
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"The technical and regulatory dimensions of Newlands tell one story. Glencore’s decision to publicise them so extensively tells another.
Former production workers, including Stuart Clark, a former Newlands employee profiled in Australian Mining reporting, have transitioned into rehabilitation roles. Supervisors who once managed draglines and haul trucks now oversee landform reshaping, vegetation planning, and monitoring crews. This is not a feel-good footnote. Retaining workers with detailed knowledge of site conditions, infrastructure layouts, and operational history materially reduces execution risk and improves the quality of rehabilitation decisions.
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Full closure timeline Into the 2040s
Bulk earthworks to ~2028, monitoring 15-20 years beyond
Calibration point for whether competitors’ timelines are plausible
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"sharpens the investment case for scrutinising provision adequacy: rehabilitation cost exposure at the Griffin Coal operation became a state-level fiscal issue when operator insolvency transferred the liability to taxpayers, a scenario that Queensland’s PRCP and provisioning frameworks are explicitly designed to prevent.
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https://discoveryalert.com/analysis/mine-rehabilitation-australia-closure-costs/
Thermal coal today US$140
Coking US$216
Say $180 /t in 2026 prices
Gross return US$41,220,000,000
40 years mine life gives US$1,030,500,000
They are able to pay for rehab. No more mining leases if they don't.... "The AASB 137 provisions standardgoverns how Australian listed miners must recognise and measure environmental liabilities, setting the recognition threshold and disclosure requirements..."
Bluff Coal Mine is an open-cut mine near the township of Bluff, Queensland, Australia.[5]
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The mine, which started coal production in the first quarter of 2019, was placed on care and maintenance in December 2020 due to low coal prices.[6] Then, in October 2021, the Australia-based coal exploration company, Bowen Coking Coal (BCC), signed a deal to acquire the Bluff pulverized coal injection (PCI) mine from mining contractor MACA for $5 million Australian Dollars. The Bluff acquisition was completed in December 2021, and first coal was mined and shipped in June 2022.[5] Bowen's Managing Director and CEO called it "a monumental move for the company as we take the major step from explorer to becoming Australia’s next multi-mine coal producer."[7]
Bluff produces ultra-low volatile PCI coal at a rate of 1 to 1.2 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa).[5] However, Bowen says it is well on track to beat its production target of five million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) by the end of 2024.[8]
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It was reported on the Bowen Coking Coal website that the decision to place Bluff Mine into "care and maintenance was made in 2023 with final mining completed in November 2023 and final sales reported in March 2024. Optionality exists to extract remaining ~1.5Mt ROM coal".[9]
• Operator: HSE Mining[5][7]
• Owner: Bowen Coking Coal[5]
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https://www.gem.wiki/Bluff_coal_mine
Community Service Announcement.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, off topic today.
Before Wuhan?
An audit of reported SARS-CoV-2 signals in Europe before December 2019
David Lingenfelter, PhD
Sep 22, 2026
https://davidlingenfelter.substack.com/p/before-wuhan
"Read that line and weep: "On policy substance, most of the merit rests with Trump".
ReplyDelete"Muh lud, is there a counterpoint?
"Well, you could turn to...
A new to me collective noun.
"A Theater of Madmen"
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"I cannot understand how people can listen to madmen, to irresponsible people and criminals, speaking about life and death, about annihilating entire civilisations, countries or peoples. And then they start crying over other people who are dear to their hearts, while at the same time glorifying and justifying the military, economic and political power of their own country."
A Theater of Madmen and Cowards: UNGA Today
Biljana Vankovska
Sep 22, 2026
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"Donald Trump was one of the first to take the podium, though not the very first, and I could not stop myself from writing down a note the moment he finished: this man is completely out of control. His speech was long and, to me, incoherent, and so much of what he said amounted, de facto and de jure, to a violation of international law. He stood there and threatened, bluntly, to annihilate an entire country and, in his words and rhetoric, to destroy a whole civilisation — to make it disappear from the face of the Earth.
And the room, the great hall of the General Assembly, absorbed it in the way it seems to absorb everything: with diplomatic calm. There were certainly people in that room who were unhappy with what they heard, but there was no mechanism, no gesture, no moment of protest against such language being used from the podium of the United Nations.
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"Then he left. He simply walked away from the podium and out of the room, because he apparently had no interest in hearing what anyone else had to say. A crowd of people followed him, and the hall fell into such disorder that the President of the General Assembly could hardly restore enough calm for the session to continue properly.
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https://biljanavankovska.substack.com/p/a-theater-of-madmen-and-cowards-unga
Hi Dorothy,
ReplyDeleteDoes the Foreign Editor of The Australian need an editor?
I’ve unfortunately had to re-read the first two paragraphs of Sheridan’s comment piece a couple of times and it still doesn’t make any sense.
In paragraph one, Trump and Albanese are at “loggerheads” whilst Trump pays no attention.
In paragraph two, Washington is aghast at Australia’s political censorship of social media but at the same couldn’t give a sweet FA of any Canberra based policy.
Evidently we are in ’Schrödinger Cat’ territory where Albanese has mortally offended Trump and the Americans and simultaneously is also of no interest to the US Administration.
Editors? When Killer offers novel combination of words for the NDIS 'whose costs have been steadily exploding.' Yep, as H Dumpty tells us 'When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' So Killer can summon up 'steady' explosions when he chooses.
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