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.
在澳大利亞擁有業(yè)務(wù)的礦商，正一家接一家地抨擊澳大利亞政府?dāng)M議對(duì)資源利潤(rùn)征收附加稅。澳大利亞政府將必和必拓(BHP Billiton)、Fortescue Metals、力拓(Rio Tinto)和斯特拉塔(Xstrata)的抗議稱之為火氣太大、言過(guò)其實(shí)。但礦商們正加大賭注。Fortescue Metals已凍結(jié)兩個(gè)開(kāi)發(fā)項(xiàng)目；如今，斯特拉塔也已暫停規(guī)模高達(dá)66億澳元煤炭和銅項(xiàng)目上近6億澳元的支出。
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