Queensland voters read this... Since Newman and Seeney came to power only two years and ten months ago, they have: • Removed all farmers rights to prevent a mine going on his farm. That decision is now being made by the Co-ordinator General, whose office is located right next door to Jeff Seeney. • They have removed all rights of protest by a neighbour and a community to a mine. • They have handed over the right to mining companies to use all the water they want from the Great Artesian Basin – and at absolutely no cost to them. (once again, the people of Queensland are left footing the bill for the mining companies) • They have announced new plans to divert Northern rivers into dams especially for mining companies (they even used the term ‘and for farmers’ as a clever little diversionary tactic). • They have shamelessly stolen land away from farmers and given mining and CSG companies all the rights they want. • For example, they have recently removed Strategic Cropping Status from 90% of the land in the Bellevue area north of Wandoan. • They approved the application by a coal seam gas company QGC to have the SCL status removed from more than 25,000ha out of a total of 29,680hn applied for in the Wandoan area on the basis it fails the slope criteria. Just days before changing the SCL rules, the government ruling was that it considered Queensland Gas Company’s parent company British Gas International (Aus) Pty Ltd to be an owner of the land it applied to have SCL status removed form, not the rate paying farmers. * Under the definition in Schedule 2 of the SCL Act, holding resource authorities makes the company an “owner” of the land and therefore an eligible person under section 41, and entitled to make a validation application, according to the DNRM decision notice given to landholders last week. • Basically, the resource company can now make applications over a farmers land without their input. • They approved Wagners Airport without any Impact or Environmental Assessment. It is also being allowed to operate during high-alert terrorist conditions without full security. • They have approved Stage Three of New Hope Acland mine, despite all assurances to voters at the last election that it would never happen. New Hope has donated $700,000 to the LNP, while their subsidiary company Brickworks donated $384,000. Their other major subsidiary company WH Soul Patterson donated $250,000. Read this sentence again- because this is what corruption is. More....
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:16:21 +0000
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