‘I don’t swallow all this zero-emissions rubbish’: Alan Jones

Sky News host Alan Jones says he is “very pro-coal mining” and he doesn’t “swallow all this zero-emissions rubbish”. “I have campaigned for years in relation to this mob Shenhua, Chinese owned, on the Liverpool Plains. Not some of the best farming land in the country; some of the best in the world,” he said. “Yet here were Shenhua with a proposal for three mine pits, 35 square kilometres do you mind, and they had bought 21,500 hectares of the best land. Black soil plains. This battle has been going on for over six years. “I remember battling with Michael Baird, as Premier, who kept on saying that the black soil plains were off-limit. But on the Government’s own maps, that I saw, the Shenhua project is on gazetted flood plains. And we are not even mining for quality coal.” Mr Jones discussed the buyback of 6,500 hectares of land in the Liverpool Plains from Shenhua by the Berejiklian government worth $100 million with NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro.

Sky News host Alan Jones says he is “very pro-coal mining” and he doesn’t “swallow all this zero-emissions rubbish”.

“I have campaigned for years in relation to this mob Shenhua, Chinese owned, on the Liverpool Plains. Not some of the best farming land in the country; some of the best in the world,” he said.

“Yet here were Shenhua with a proposal for three mine pits, 35 square kilometres do you mind, and they had bought 21,500 hectares of the best land. Black soil plains. This battle has been going on for over six years.

“I remember battling with Michael Baird, as Premier, who kept on saying that the black soil plains were off-limit. But on the Government’s own maps, that I saw, the Shenhua project is on gazetted flood plains. And we are not even mining for quality coal.”

Mr Jones discussed the buyback of 6,500 hectares of land in the Liverpool Plains from Shenhua by the Berejiklian government worth $100 million with NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro.

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