Mining on agricultural land gets a Senate hearing
Groups opposing coal mining on agricultural land in southern Queensland met with members of the Senate Committee into the impacts of mining in the Murray Darling Basin, including Greens Senator, Scott Ludlam.
The committee met at Oakey, near Toowoomba and were taken on a tour of potentially affected areas. The groups represent farmers from the Felton, Acland and Haystack areas.
These beautiful, highly productive farms will be overtaken by open cut coal mining and no one is buying the mining companies’ hogwash that they can rehabilitate such country “as good as it was.”
Scott was able to meet with farmers’ representatives and to ask several pertinent questions about impacts and the consultation process.
This is an issue that will keep coming back as coal mining stretches across the state and State and Federal Governments recoil from taking on the mining industry.
