Ron Knapp has been the CEO of the Australian Aluminium Council

Australian Aluminium Council

The Australian Aluminium Council is an Australian industry association representing companies involved in bauxite mining and the refining, production and distribution of aluminium....

 since 2001, after heading the World Coal Institute

World Coal Institute

The World Coal Institute changed its name to World Coal Association in November 2010.The World Coal Association is a non-profit, non-governmental association, funded by coal enterprises and stakeholders....

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In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton

Clive Hamilton

Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the The...

 (director of The Australia Institute

The Australia Institute

The Australia Institute is a left wing Australian think tank conducting public policy research, funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research....

) identifies Knapp as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen", a group of climate change skeptic

Global warming controversy

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s with considerable influence over Australian Government policy. Others among these dirty dozen are Hugh Morgan, John Eyles, Alan Oxley, Peter Walsh

Peter Walsh (Australian politician)

Peter Alexander Walsh AO is a former Australian senator and Labor politician from 1974 to 1993.Walsh grew up in Doodlakine, Western Australia, where he was a wheat and sheep farmer. He was elected to the Australian Senate in 1974, and served as Minister for Resources and Energy from 1983 to 1984...

, Meg McDonald, Ian MacFarlane

Ian Macfarlane (politician)

Ian Elgin Macfarlane , is an Australian politician. He was elected as a member of the Australian House of Representatives in October 1998, representing the Division of Groom, Queensland for the Liberal National Party...

, Barry Jones, Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell

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, Alan Moran, Malcolm Broomhead, and John Howard

John Howard

John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....

. http://www.tai.org.au/documents/downloads/WP84.pdf

External links

• Australian Aluminium Council
• World Coal Institute