<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9fff8dfe-4668-4cb5-a384-ba944f4d59de/13B9341B-50C6-4FE1-B814-71CCD3285C01/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21202562-5005961,00.html" href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21202562-5005961,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.news.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21202562-5005961,00.html"><P><STRONG>NATIONALS senator Barnaby Joyce has ridiculed a proposal by the Greens to end coal exports, saying Australians would be living on the streets if the country adopted the plan.</STRONG></p> <P>Greens leader Bob Brown today called for Australia, one of the world's largest coal producers, to stop exporting coal within three years to help reduce global greenhouse emissions. </p> <P>Coal exports earned the nation $25 billion last year. </p> <P>"To suddenly ban coal exports would be massively dislocating but we have got to do it and we have to do it within a period of a government. That should be the sort of aim we are looking at," Senator Brown said. </p> <P>Senator Brown said clean coal technology was at least a decade away and the government could not wait to phase out coal over a 30-year period. </p> <P>But Senator Joyce said coal was Australia's major trade export earner, and ceasing exports would cause untold economic harm.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/13B9341B-50C6-4FE1-B814-71CCD3285C01/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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