Queensland Mineral and Energy Resources Bill debated amid protests

• Autores: Industrial Minerals
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 565, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Octubre)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Protest group Lock the Gate Alliance said that the bill was passed "secretly", adding that the "draconian laws extinguish our right to protest against mining proposals".

    The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) website describes the new MERCP as "providing for the first step in creating a simplified common framework for managing resource authorities in order to optimise development and use of Queensland's mineral and energy resources and to manage overlapping coal and petroleum (coal seam gas) resource authorities".

    Katie-Anne Mulder, resources policy adviser for the QRC, said: "The process 'Pre-MERCP' was that anyone could object to a mining proposal through a) the mining lease under any ground and/or b) the environmental authority for impacts. Previously any person or group could object to applications, whether they were directly affected by the operation or not, forcing the matter into the Land Court."