The mining industry has rejected the Greens latest plan to deal with the “terminal decline” of the sector. Greens leader Dr Richard Di Natale released the plan on Tuesday, in response to...
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Tomorrow, the Queensland mining community will stop and spare a moment to remember those heroes in hard hats who have died in the mining industry. The 2015 Miners Memorial Day service will be held...
The Ipswich City Council has dug its heels in this week, deciding there is no long-term future for coal mining or coal seam gas extraction in Ipswich because “they are largely incompatible with...
The NSW Government today released a proposed amendment to the Mining State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP), which would remove a provision making the significance of the resource the principle...
With the state election just weeks away, lobbying by industry bodies and interest groups has begun in earnest. Queensland’s resources and mining sector is no exception. The head of Queensland...
The far south west corner of the state could soon be the next boom region for Queensland’s resources sector with the government announcing a new plan to open up the gas and oil rich Cooper...
The government’s flip-flopping Renewable Energy Targets have been blamed for Meridian Energy’s decision not to proceed with the Burdekin Hydro Power Generation project in Northern...
2015 will be the UN International’s Year of Soil, and with it comes the timely release of an online tool that can help miners, farmers and developers identify soil types. Over the weekend...
Traditional owners of Queensland’s Channel Country have asked the United Nations to intervene in a battle to prevent coal seam gas extraction in the Lake Eyre Basin. According to the ABC, the...
Around 1600 new construction jobs could be created in the Galilee Basin after the state government approved AMCI’s South Galilee Coal Project today. However the project could be sunk before it...
