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Various Clive Palmer-owned coal mine rejected due to unacceptable impacts on Reef, water In a massive win for the community, environment and Reef, today the Queensland Department of Environment and Science has recommended the Clive Palmer-owned proposed Central Queensland Coal Project does not proceed due to unacceptable impacts on the Great Barrier Reef and World Heritage Area, the Styx River Estuary, water sources, and the Broad Sound Fish Habitat. The Assessment Report released by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science is the first time a new coal mine has been recommended not to proceed in Queensland: “Taking into account all of the relevant information, I have determined that overall, the project poses a number of unacceptable risks and that the project, as proposed, is not suitable. As such, I consider that the project is not suitable to proceed.” ....
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. ....
Protest calls on Queensland to reject Clive Palmer-owned coal mine just 10km from Great Barrier Reef miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Toddler airlifted to hospital after dingo attack on Australia s Fraser Island Reuters 2 hrs ago MELBOURNE, April 17 (Reuters) - A two-year-old boy was airlifted to a hospital with bites to his head and body after a dingo attacked him on a popular Australian holiday island early on Saturday, rescue services said. It s believed the child, who was holidaying with his family, had been playing outside a house, when neighbors heard a commotion, RACQ LifeFlight Rescue said in a statement. They reportedly went to investigate and saw a dingo attacking the toddler. The boy, accompanied by his mother, was flown to a hospital from Fraser Island off the eastern coast and is in stable condition. ....
A popular Australian walking track has been closed indefinitely after last month s wild weather. The Oceanview Walking Track - which cuts across Burleigh Head National Park on the Gold Coast in Queensland s south-east and boasts views of the skyline - has been closed by authorities after two landslips in late March. More than one million visitors use the track annually but Queensland s Department of Environment and Science said the route was now unsafe for walkers. The landslips came as the region was hit with life-threatening levels of rainfall, with parts of south-east Queensland receiving more than 500mm of rain in the space of two days. ....