One by one, miners with Australian operations are slamming Canberra's proposed 40 per cent supertax on resource profits. Canberra has dismissed the protests of BHP Billiton, Fortescue Metals, Rio Tinto and Xstrata as huffing and puffing. But miners are upping the ante. Fortescue has already frozen two development projects; now Xstrata has suspended almost A$600m of expenditure on A$6.6bn of coal and copper projects.
在澳洲擁有業務的礦商,正一家接一家地抨擊澳洲政府擬議對資源利潤徵收附加稅。澳洲政府將必和必拓(BHP Billiton)、Fortescue Metals、力拓(Rio Tinto)和斯特拉塔(Xstrata)的抗議稱之爲火氣太大、言過其實。但礦商們正加大賭注。Fortescue Metals已凍結兩個開發項目;如今,斯特拉塔也已暫停規模高達66億澳元煤炭和銅項目上近6億澳元的支出。
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