Infiltrate to RemediateSýnishorn

Devotional Content

The coal industry is much maligned today because it has been polluting our planet since the Industrial Revolution of the early 1800s. The only reason it pollutes the world is because of greed and self-centeredness.

It is entirely possible to mine coal profitably without polluting the place. But the owners of the coal mines and the thermal power stations are so greedy they are only focused on profit, and they won’t spend money reducing their emissions because it reduces profit.

They do not care about the people who have to breathe lousy air or the possibility of global warming (whether you believe humans cause it or not). In other words, these miners and power generators are maximizing self-interest at the expense of others.

In 2011, my company decided to infiltrate and remediate the coal industry. We wanted to set up a prototype model here in Australia to prove that coal could be mined and electricity could be generated without pollution and still be profitable. If we did this, the rest of the industry would have to follow suit.

We did this because we had a lot of concerns about what was going to happen if the climate change activists had their way. If companies stopped mining coal, over 300 million people would freeze to death in the first 12 months. Millions of people would lose their jobs; small towns worldwide would die out, leading to immense human misery.

We figured that God WANTS us to mine coal and use it as a cheap source of baseload energy production for the poor. Why else would he have put it there? Where does almost all of the world’s coal come from? The Flood of Noah.

The Lord cleaned out all of the greed and corruption and self-centeredness from the world and created a lovely new fresh canvas for Noah and his family to populate. And God riddled the place with coal for us to keep warm and eventually produce cheap electricity.

If he didn’t want us to use it, he would not have created it! But he did not want us to trash his beautiful creation in the name of sheer profit – that is called the spirit of mammon, and that is precisely the economic and business culture God wants us to repent from or change from!

This is where the concept of “Infiltrate to Remediate” comes in.

So, in 2011 we bought into a start-up coal mine in Australia. The mine owners were driven entirely by profit, so we needed to invest enough to take control and change that culture. We negotiated a deal whereby if we injected $71 million, we would acquire 50% plus a casting vote of the board.

It was a nightmare to achieve this because the devil did not want this to happen. But we have learned to persevere. It was challenging to fund coal, banks have abandoned it, and wealth funds wouldn’t touch it.

We knew we had to persevere because if we did not, one of two things would happen:

1. Coal would get shut down, people would die, and economies would collapse; or

2. Coal would continue to pollute the planet for the next 50 years until renewables became cheap and reliable enough to replace it.

In our kingdom mindset, neither of these were options. So, we persevered, and eventually, in August 2020, we reached our funding goal of $71 million and took control of the mine. We then found that our position was inequitable and renegotiated for further equity until we owned 80% of the mine.

After this, God applied massive favor. He showed us the technologies we planned to use to clean up our coal had been superseded by a new, clean, green coal-to-hydrogen technology that had not yet been commercialized. This process would create no emissions because there is no combustion of coal.

We acquired this technology for a few million dollars, and we have ordered the first modules, which will scale up to be one of the largest hydrogen producers in Australia.

This will also provide a solution for the entire coal industry worldwide. It is a massive opportunity for kingdom operators to clean up the industry and to have enormous influence around the world.

Here’s the favor shock – we had to raise a lot of capital to develop this new project. And it would help if you had assets to raise money against.

Last year we had to revalue the coal assets because the ministry of mines was amending some of our mining leases. We had done a lot of drilling and exploration, and the value should have increased. Remember, we paid $71 million for 80%. The valuation of the inground resource, done by the consulting geologists, came in at $1.4 billion. This gives us massive security to raise the $350 million we need to establish the project.

We now can thoroughly remediate the coal mining industry!

Do you see how this works, ladies and gentlemen? If we want to change the culture on the mountain of economics, or any mountain for that matter, we must infiltrate and remediate it. We will never change it only from the outside.

Although I have given a macro example done by a reasonably large company - you can do this at any level, including as an individual.

Think about it carefully – salvations in the workplace are all about infiltrating the secular world to save people to Christ and then teaching them what Jesus taught us – which is the only proper remediation. We must adequately convert them, not just get them saved! Zacchaeus operated very differently after being saved than when he was a crook!

I encourage you to consider how you can do this at any level, confirm it with the Lord, and then roll up your sleeves and hook into it!

For more information on this topic and other biblical principles that can be applied in the marketplace, please visit the Kingdom Initiatives website via www.kingdominitiatives.com.au

God bless.