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US tax dollars must not finance $1bn Great Barrier Reef destruction!

A powerful call has gone out the the US Export-Import Bank not to finance a massive coal mine, railway, port terminal and dredged ‘canal’ through Australia’s Great Barrier Reef with $1 billion in loans and guarantees.

US tax dollars must not finance $1bn Great Barrier Reef destruction!

-The Ecologist 2/20/2015

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