Big coal caused big floods in Australia, according to Bob Brown

Coal barons should help pay for catastrophes - BrownMedia Release Sunday 16th January 2011 The full tax on excess profits by the coal mining industry, as recommended by Treasury, should be imposed with half set aside for future natural catastrophes in Australia, Greens Leader Bob Brown said in Hobart today. "It is unfair that the cost is put on all taxpayers, not the culprits," Senator Brown said