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BHP purchases sensitive floodplain land, CCC the last to know? |
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Thursday, 12 March 2009 10:00 |
Further exposing the dysfunctionality of the Caroona Community Consultative Committee, BHP denied recently purchasing land which includes the Mooki River around the time that it was indeed purchasing this land.
Using the standard modus operandi of mining companies in ‘exploration’, BHP have paid over-the-odds for this land suggesting that its water assets were highly prized. After all, BHP have repeatedly stated they can not mine under the floodplain.
Will the Mooki River be used to cool a power station as their own proposal stated – a proposal that BHP’s GM said he knew nothing about? Can we believe anything BHP tell the CCC when they appear confused over the simplest of matters? Why are floodplain properties with water of interest when BHP say they can’t mine there? What do they have planned for our River, the Caroona water supply and the aquifers beneath?
It’s time the Community received the truth, but is the CCC up to the job? [Read the full story from a CCC member here] |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:15 |
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Queensland Libs Get It – What about NSW? |
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Sunday, 08 March 2009 10:00 |
With an election in the offing, the LNP has been listening to country people and has pledged to identify Prime Agricultural Land in Queensland and protect it from mining and urban encroachment.
 Opposition Leader Lawrence Springboard said this week: "We're willing to put in a planning regime to ensure we can protect what is the best farmland ... in Australia from disruptive mining development. We believe the mining industry is extremely important but we also believe that it's absolutely stupid to have disruptive open-cut mining ... in an area which is largely the most prime agricultural land in all of Queensland."
Mr Springborg cited Haystack Plain and the Darling Downs area of Felton as two prime agricultural areas currently under threat from destructive coal mining. So QLD Libs get it, the Federal government which is in the middle of a Senate Enquiry into “Food Security” in Australia, gets it, when will the NSW government wake up? |
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 July 2009 11:29 |
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NSW Farmers Executive Visit Caroona |
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Wednesday, 04 March 2009 10:00 |
The executive council of NSW Farmers, drawn from across the State, saw the productivity and fertility of the Liverpool Plains for themselves on Monday via a bus tour conducted by CCAG.
“We felt it was important for The Executive to see that if prime agricultural land such as the Liverpool Plains is under threat, no farming land in Australia is safe from ‘developments’ such as mining”, said Tim Duddy as he thanked the 60 members present for their  support.
NSW Farmers President Jock Laurie addressed the group, applauding the People Power that had resulted in the Water Study Process and CCAG’s continuing committment to protecting food producing land. He urged all farmers to be aware and involved in the issue, and to actively inform others within their own networks, so that food and water security could become a higher priority in any government’s thinking.
As he said “People lead, governments follow”. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:17 |
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Acid Mine Drainage – Coal’s Everlasting Cost |
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009 10:00 |
AMD is the coal industry’s dirty big secret, the toxic waste that no one wants to admit can not be successfully managed. A toxic stream that gets bigger and dirtier year-on-year until all the heavy metal and excess metal toxicity has been flushed to the surface. Roman era mines, 2000 years old, are still spewing it.
AMD breaks down clay ‘containment’ ponds so it leaks into the soil creating toxic wastelands. But these ponds hold just long enough after ‘rehab’ for the EPA to tick them as secure. Who comes back 2 or 5 years later to see the damage progressing and accelerating? Just add another toxic leaching mine to add to NSW’s 570 unremediated mines list. 
Coal mining and prime food producing land can not co-exist. Unless of course you want lead, mercury and aluminium with your Weetbix and in your milk.
[See here for a map of Canada’s problem, a country that has tried to contain the damage, but is now weakening its environmental laws due to miners whining that no one else has to clean up their act so why should they?] |
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Last Updated on Monday, 13 July 2009 11:32 |
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Gloucester fights for ITS floodplains too – yet another mad mine proposal |
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Friday, 13 February 2009 10:00 |
Nearly 1000 people attended a rally in Gloucester this week against the renewal of Gloucester Resources’ coal exploration licenses to prevent the devastation of prime alluvial flats at the foothills of the majestic Bucketts range, next to the town.
Picturesque Gloucester, whose economy relies on tourism and the production of dairy, beef and fish from its growing aquaculture industry, is a perfect example of a thriving country town with a sustainable mix of businesses, already contributing to the NSW economy. Unfortunately, Minister Macdonald, in the final dash-for-cash from this Jurassic industry, sees only Gloucester’s minor coal reserves as “something to harvest” in line with the government’s 1994 report that “agriculture is the biggest threat to coal mining”.
Minister Macdonald, when approached by concerned Gloucester Mayor Julie Lyford, further suggested that “community opposition [to the mine] be hosed down”. What is clear is that Minister Macdonald has totally misread another community prepared to fight for the protection its prime agricultural land and the food and water security for all Australians contained therein. >more.. |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 11 July 2009 22:17 |
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