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Startup's purchase Queensland coalmine avoids environmental scrutiny
2016-02-12 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A loophole in Queensland mining laws could allow a startup company to avoid government scrutiny of its suitability to operate a coalmine with a $120m-plus environmental liability after raising less than $750,000 from investors. Batchfire Resources has inked a deal to buy Callide mine that may also not require it to seek a new environmental permit, sparing it from a possible hike in the amount of money it must guarantee for site rehabilitation should it go under. Batchfire, whose key shareholder,...
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Trade minister criticised over Queensland sugar regulation
2016-02-11 07:02:32| Sugar Industry News
Trade Minister Andrew Robb has been warned that Australia has damaged its reputation as an investment destination following a decision by the Queensland Parliament to effectively re-regulate the nation's $2 billion sugar industry. Read more: http://www.afr.com/news/politics/trade-minister-criticised-over-queensland-sugar-regulation-20160208-gmp11n#ixzz3zpuwagtp Follow us: @FinancialReview on Twitter | financialreview on Facebook
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Wilmar wins Federal Court challenge against Queensland Sugar Limited as marketing dispute continues
2016-02-05 07:36:29| Sugar Industry News
Sugar milling company Wilmar has won a Federal Court battle against Queensland Sugar Limited, the industry-owned company that markets 85 per cent of the nation's raw sugar.
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Queensland gives Adani environmental permit Carmichael coalmine
2016-02-02 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Adani has secured an environmental permit from the Queensland government to build Australias largest coal mine. The Indian conglomerate was issued an environmental authority for its Carmichael mine, west of Bowen in north Queensland, by the department of environment and heritage on Tuesday. It is one less hurdle for Adanis highly contested plans, after its Australian chief complained last week that delays in government approvals were incentivising green activists to plot further legal challenges...
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Queensland miners dispirited by return black lung disease
2016-01-14 08:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Underground coalminers feel let down by the system amid fears more workers could be diagnosed with the potentially deadly black lung disease in Queensland, a mining union says. Five cases have been confirmed in the state, indicating pneumoconiosis had re-emerged for the first time at Australian coalmines in three decades. Related: Coalminers call for inquiry after return of black lung disease in Queensland Jason Hill, from the mining division of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy...
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