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âI would welcome the opportunity for the team to come up again.
âI really want to stress we are not anti-resource or anti-coal, we just had more questions about the project in general.â
Cr Williams has been in talks with the company, which is owned by Clive Palmer, that has agreed to do a presentation at a council meeting in the near future.
Cr Williams agreed if it was approached again to offer a letter of support it would do so.
âWe are supportive of the resource sector,â he said.
Central Queensland Coal Pty Ltdâs website states it is committed to the environment and minimising the impacts its work has on it.
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Proposed Clive Palmer mine moves to assessment stage – Reef concerns need urgent consideration
Great Barrier Reef campaigners are urging government officials not to greenlight Clive Palmer’s Central Queensland Coal Pty Ltd proposed mine as Queensland’s environment department announced today it was allowing the plan to move to the next stage of assessments.
A damning report from the Independent Expert Scientific Committee (IESC) on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development has found the mine poses significant risk to surrounding reef ecosystems with no way to offset the damage from mine-polluted water.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) said the new open cut coal mine, situated just 10 km from the World Heritage Reef, would be disastrous because mine affected water could flow into Queensland’s largest fish habitat at Broad Sound, north of Rockhampton.
The mayor and two councillors at Rockhampton Regional Council have formally rejected providing support for Clive Palmer’s proposed coal project - a day before its final environmental approval deadline.
The Central Queensland Coal Project is a proposed metallurgical coal development located on the Bruce Hwy, near St Lawrence, between Rockhampton and Mackay.
The company plans to commence construction in July 2022 and would employ up to 250 people.
It is currently awaiting State Government and Commonwealth approval before construction and operations can begin.
The project has been subject to concerns from the Independent Expert Scientific Committee (IESC) on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development.