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# Queensland Anti-Coal Bureaucrat Colluded With Al Gore
- URL: https://goodoil.news/queensland-anti-coal-bureaucrat-colluded-with-al-gore/
- Published: 2019-10-23T03:00:08.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-22T09:39:48.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: AUS Politics, Climate Change, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

One of the flashpoint issues that cost Labor so dearly at the last Australian election was coal mining. The ferocious voter backlash against anti-coal activism also put the wind up the Queensland state Labor government. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk couldn’t [backflip fast enough](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/05/qld-labor-panicking-and-squawking-like-a-plucked-chook/?ref=goodoil.news) on her government’s forced delays on approvals for the mine.

Not that Queenslanders would be fooled, anyway. In a spectacular display of comic timing, King Climate Clown himself, Al Gore, [flew into Queensland](https://thebfd.co.nz/2019/06/al-gores-climate-clown-show-comes-to-australia/?ref=goodoil.news) for a state-government sponsored climate junket just weeks after Australian voters roundly rejected climate fearmongering (again).

Now, it’s emerged that Big Al wasn’t just collecting his usual gargantuan appearance fee: he was pulling Queensland Labor’s strings.

> A veteran anti-coal activist, controversially appointed as a top public servant in Queensland’s En­vir­onment Department, sent drafts of a proposed online panel discussion critical of Scott Morrison for vetting by Al Gore’s US-based climate change organisation. Emails obtained under state Right to Information laws show Tim Seelig, a former Wilderness Society official, drafted an exchange­ between Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch and the former US vice-president ahead of his taxpayer-funded visit to Queensland in June.

Behind this orchestrated climate clown show lurks “Pluckachook”’s deep-watermelon deputy, Jackie Trad, who was apparently busily arranging jobs for her greenie mates.

> Dr Seelig, who has a doctorate in urban sociology and is a long-time ally of Deputy Premier Jackie Trad, was appointed as prin­cipal adviser (strategic policy) to department director-general Jamie Merrick in July last year despite missing the cut-off date for applications for the newly created job.  
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> His appointment has since been probed by the Public Service Commission.

Still, at least he’s doing what Trad tells him to – and making sure everyone else says what they’re told to, as well.

> The emails between Dr Seelig and Ms Enoch’s media adviser, Pamela Frost, show his direct contact with Mr Gore’s organisation and the suggested questions and answers between the American anti-climate change crusader and the state minister…  
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> “Below is the proposed question which I have confirmed is fine with the Climate Reality (Al Gore org) Australian Branch, along with an indicative suggested answer­,’’ he wrote…  
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> Attached to the emails is a transcript of the proposed exchange­, with Mr Gore pointed­ly saying to Ms Enoch, “your prime minister would not agree with you on many points”, which leads her to attack Mr Morrison.  
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> “That’s right. We don’t need a prime minister who thinks bringing a lump of coal into parliament is a way forward,’’ Ms Enoch is proposed to say in the draft exchange.

Trad’s greenie puppet master all but had his hands up their arses for this climate muppet show.

> A spokesperson for Ms Enoch last night failed to answer why a public servant was representing Ms Enoch to Mr Gore’s organisation and not her ministerial office.  
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> In a statement, Ms Enoch’s spokesperson claims the…“Statements were not vetted­”.  
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> [theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anticoal-bureaucrat-got-al-gore-to-vet-climate-qa](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anticoal-bureaucrat-got-al-gore-to-vet-climate-qa/news-story/e4763c44ce7f61b169b23a046ab7acea?ref=goodoil.news)

Well, that’s true enough. **They were scripted.**