<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/e2929468-d449-45ce-a01a-8192a10da213/DA1EE626-0849-4EDE-8487-7F64D08264DE/" 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/0,21985,21202914-5005961,00.html" href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21202914-5005961,00.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/0,21985,21202914-5005961,00.html"><P><STRONG>AUSTRALIA'S struggling solar power industry could easily absorb jobless miners under a plan by the Australian Greens to phase out the country's lucrative coal export business.</STRONG></p> <P>Greens Leader Bob Brown said Australia needed to switch to cleaner energy sources because the coal industry was producing massive amounts of greenhouse gases which were heating the planet. </p> <P>He furthered his attack on the Liberal and Labor parties for not creating a plan to replace coal production with renewable energy. </p> <P>Prime Minister John Howard and National Senator Barnaby Joyce have independently lambasted the plan, saying it would leave Australia's 26,000 coal industry workers out in the cold. </p> <P>But Senator Brown said a recommitment to Australia's once-booming solar power industry could easily absorb the coal workers.</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/DA1EE626-0849-4EDE-8487-7F64D08264DE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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