Because she owns 10% of the news organisation that originally printed the story and sits on their board.
She is a stupid bitch with a lot of money.
That scheme is much like that of 17th century England, where the rich could pay their way out and the poor languish. Would suit Gina, who wants to pay workers $2 a day, perfectly.
An example of Gina's incredible intellectual prowess.:
Rinehart's holiday. The world's richest woman, Gina Rinehart, has penned an article on her recent trip to Europe.
In the Netherlands, she was interested to discover that people "had complaints about the windmills". According to Rinehart, a well-known climate sceptic, the Dutch don't like paying for wind power, "and also the consequences to industry, with industries closing down in Holland and moving elsewhere". Unemployment has dramatically increased -- doubled! -- due to wind power, Rinehart says. The Dutch "now wished they'd stayed with the old. But few people had spoken up beforehand about what wind power would really mean".
Her source? She spoke to a taxi driver.
Tips would just like to point out that there have been windmills in the area now known as the Netherlands since the eighth century. In fact, windmills helped create the land of the low-lying Netherlands (read about it here). The country's official tourist website says: "Today, windmills are characteristic of the Dutch landscape and a symbol of the Dutch struggle with water."
So it's a shame to hear the Dutch are so anti-windmill.
Learning from my Europe trip, I thought I'd share some experiences, starting with Amsterdam. Amsterdam was my first European stop after working in India, and I was fortunate to be greeted at the airport by a knowledgeable Dutch driver. As we passed a large, sometimes power-generating windmill, I asked him what the people of Holland thought of wind power. His reply was interesting. He said at first it seemed that most of the Dutch people welcomed wind power as a power source, and welcomed and wanted the ideas of other clean energy.
He then told me, but now it is different. He advised that most people now don’t like the higher taxes due to building such new power, and especially don’t like the increased power costs out of their own pockets, and also the consequences to industry, with industries closing down in Holland and moving elsewhere. He told me unemployment had increased, with mainly youth affected, and had approximately doubled in two years.
He said people in Holland now wished they hadn’t incurred these cleaner power burdens, and wished they’d stayed with the old. But few people had spoken up beforehand about what wind power would really mean. He said they had further complaints about the windmills, too. Nobody wanted a power-generating windmill near them. I asked why people hadn’t spoken up, and he replied that often people don’t like to speak out against things that are popular at the time, even if there may be consequences not desirable.
Fine intellect that woman has...
Also, as if she would ever catch a cab, and if she did, as if she would stoop to speak with the driver... pfft.