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from the Pythonesque...-Slithery-serpent?-Scripting?-Dead-parrot? dept.
The controversial Adani coal mine in Queensland is unlikely to get funding from Australia's big four banks after the second biggest, Westpac, tightened its funding criteria.
Westpac released its third Climate Change Action Plan today, which has a $10 billion target for lending to climate change solutions by 2020 and $25 billion by 2030.
[...] The bank's tougher criteria rule out Adani's new $16 billion Carmichael coal mine in Queensland's Galilee Basin to supply the Indian market.
[...] But Westpac's new environmental policy has infuriated Queensland LNP senator and resources minister Matt Canavan, who accused the company of being "unAustralian" before turning to Twitter to say Westpac had "turned its back" on the state.
Canavan said Westpac's decision was ridiculous, nonsensical and "Pythonesque"
"Adani itself hasn't asked Westpac for a loan. It seems to me that some corporations today are whimps in regard to standing up to these activists. You know, a few people that angrily turned up to a Westpac dinner and apparently changed the world," he said.
"I'm confident that the development in the Galilee Basin makes sense in terms of the world's energy needs."
Source: Business Insider Australia
(Score: 4, Funny) by looorg on Friday April 28 2017, @07:47PM (4 children)
Must be some of them philosophy majors from the University of Woolamaloo. Those poofters will complain about almost anything ...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @08:40PM (1 child)
So WestPc believes:
Beautiful is better than ugly
Explicit is better than implicit
Simple is better than complex
Complex is better than complicated
Readability counts
Seems like a good philosophy, though not sure what it has to do with banking.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday April 30 2017, @12:55AM
Beautiful is better than ugly
Explicit is better than implicit
Simple is better than complex
Complex is better than complicated
Readability counts
Burma Shave.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 28 2017, @10:22PM
should be because they actually now what are they talking about unlike you right?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by purple_cobra on Friday April 28 2017, @10:25PM
Distantly related...
A (New Zealander) mate and I were discussing the Six Nations championship; he thought the England coach Eddie Jones was one of his lot, I thought he was an Australian. After I described his reaction to Italy's tactics against England in the championship, he immediately said that he was wrong and that Jones could only be an Aussie. When I asked why, he said that it took a very special kind of country to produce sore winners and that Australia (along with England and the USA) was one of them! Jones always looks like he's lost a tenner and found 50p.