Lock the Gate Alliance Queensland’s Ellie Smith thanked the department for following the scientific advice. “It was frankly difficult to believe a company could even think such a mine so close to the reef would ever be accepted by the Queensland public,” she said.
The Australian Marine Conservation Society’s great barrier reef campaigner, David Cazzulino, said hundreds had attended rallies in Mackay, Yeppoon and Brisbane to protest the mine.
Building an open-cut coal mine would cause “serious and irreversible damage to a variety of important habitats, including important turtle and dugong strongholds” and was too close to the reef, he said.
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An independent scientific group has raised environmental concerns over Clive Palmer s proposed Central Queensland Coal project near St Lawrence. The project, proposed for Styx Basin, consists of an open cut operation and rail connection to the Queensland Rail North Coast Line. The project intends to mine two million tonnes per annum of run-of-mine coal, which when processed will produce 1.5 million tonnes per annum of semi soft coking coal. There are plans for the proposed mine to eventually ramp up production to 10 million tonnes a year. Central Queensland Coal was first proposed four years ago, but the company s latest Environmental Impact Assessment amendment has drawn concern from the independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development.
BRAVUS Mining and Resources has been given additional time to complete key aspects of the environmental measures put in place to protect native animals affected by its Carmichael project. The company, which recently changed its name from Adani Australia, has been granted an extension on two aspects of the environmental approvals. The decision has angered activists who have lobbied against the project. The company must secure offset areas which are designed to compensate for the unavoidable impact of the Carmichael project. It will now have an extra 12 months to legally secure the offset property for Stage 1 of the project. Initially, Bravus was offered two years to secure the offset area.