The Multi Cargo Facility - Abbot Point

Last time when Labor was in power in Queensland they had huge plans for the Abbot Point Coal Terminal.  It would have been the largest coal terminal in the world.

The Multi Cargo Facility would  include 12 shipping berths, a tug harbour and a dredged access channel, swing basin and berth pockets. 

Under the proposal, all dredged material from construction, approximately 25 million cubic metres, will become reclaimed land so it does not have to be disposed out to sea.

BACKGROUND: 

The project also includes a 70-metre wide construction haul road and port access road linking the harbour development to the Abbot Point State Development Area. 
The proposed road would cross the Caley Valley Wetlands but would be located near an existing water pipeline to the Abbot Point Coal Terminal to reduce impacts. 
The MCF will likely be developed in two stages. 

Stage one will comprise: 
• construction of a bunded reclamation 
• dredging of an access channel, swing basin and berths 
• development of up to six berths 
• development of a tug harbour 
• development of the transport access corridor. 

Stage two would extend the bunded area and include another six berths. 

Source: Queensland Government

Artists impression of what the facility would look like on completion:

More interesting photos of the Multi Cargo Facility. What might have been.......

However, when the LNP got into power they drastically reduced the Multi Cargo proposal stating that it was “unrealistic and undeliverable”.

The AU$9 billion expansion would have increased the capacity of the terminal from 50 million to 385 million tonnes per annum with the facility expanded to accommodate nine coal terminals, making it one of the largest coal ports in the world.

“The significant scale, complexity and potential impacts of the proposed infrastructure are extensive and it would be many years before the whole of the planned additional capacity would realistically be warranted,” Seeney said in a statement.

Under revised plans, a second and third terminal will still be built at the site located in the north of Queensland State.

“The proposals outlined by the (previous Labor) government were unrealistic and undeliverable. They were never going to come to reality,” added Seeney.

“Our focus on (terminal 2 and terminal 3) is a more practical and efficient approach to expansion of infrastructure at Abbot Point.”

Source: Port Technology

The Greens are going on about not wanting another Gladstone fiasco for Abbot Point. Well, this is the reality of what Labor wanted. 

The Fight for the Reef campaign recently posted on Facebook this picture below, blaming the LNP for wanting to do this to Abbot Point just like what happened at Gladstone.  In fact, they are lying, as usual.  This is not what is proposed by the LNP government. This is more like what was proposed by Labor. Compare the pictures of the Multi Cargo facility and Gladstone below.

Gladstone dredging and reclamation.

The proposal for the wetlands disposal is in settling ponds with lined walls. On land, not reclamation like the above photo at Gladstone.

The Green groups campaign is full of misleading information.

Compared with Reality , the LNP plan for Abbot Point...

Media Statements

Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning

The Honourable Jeff Seeney

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Port strategy a win-win for environment and economy

North Queensland families have heard firsthand how the Queensland Government will help protect the Great Barrier Reef through a strategy to use dredge material from port development on land, rather than conventional sea-based disposal methods.

Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning Jeff Seeney told a public meeting in Bowen that the Abbot Point Beneficial Reuse Strategy would protect the natural wonder and allow for the sustainable development of the port.

“Our Government believes this landmark plan offers the strongest and most exciting opportunity yet to achieve a win-win for the environment and economic growth,” Mr Seeney said.

“We are delivering on our election promise to provide better planning and infrastructure and open up the resource-rich Galilee Basin.

“Labor had no long term plan for the region, the reef or development.

“Our strategy will strike a balance between protecting the unique values of the Great Barrier Reef and boosting regional economies.

“My trip to the port and the opportunity to address North Queenslanders in support of port development has reinforced for me that we cannot miss this chance to create jobs and economic opportunities across the region and the entire state.

“The Queensland Government will continue to support communities like Bowen build a strong future through growth in the tourism, resources and agriculture pillars of their economy.”

The Abbot Point Beneficial Reuse Strategy was launched last week and involves dredge material being placed on existing state land to the west of current port facilities, to lay the groundwork for future expansion. Existing man-made wetlands to the south will be enhanced by the creation of a habitat three times the size of the current wetlands.

“We aim to create a port facility that will serve Queensland industry for the next century and, at the same time, triple the area of existing freshwater wetland to support local flora and fauna,” he said.

“The State Government has appointed experienced project manager, Michael Schaumburg, to oversee this development, with work set to commence as soon as possible should Federal Government approval be granted.”

Mr Seeney said the Abbot Point Beneficial Reuse Strategy would be carried out in stages and consist of a series of enhanced land areas, linked to a low-impact single rail line development and sedimentation ponds to return seawater to marine wetlands.

“We are determined to make the right, long-term planning decisions for this port now, in the same way planning for the successful Port of Brisbane began decades ago," he said.

“I look forward to working with Queensland Environment Minister Andrew Powell and Commonwealth Minister Greg Hunt to implement this strategy in time for the commencement of dredging in March 2015.”

[ENDS] 17 September 2014

Now, due to Legal challenges the proposal has been downsized even further. For more information on the proposal and any changes please visit the Department of State Development , Infrastructure and Planning website.

Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning

Facts versus Lies

Let's put a few things into perspective. The Greens are never happy. They did not want dumping in the ocean waters. They got their wish. 

Now they don't want dumping at the wetlands. They are never happy.  And, now it seems they have hoodwinked the Qld Labor party into believing their lies. The Labor party have stated that if they get into power they will not allow dumping in the wetlands. AMCS Media release

Now, blind Freddy can clearly see that the disposal in ponds with lined walls in the proposed reclamation sites at the wetlands will have no impact on any surrounding areas. Why are Labor so fooled by the Greens?? Yes, that's right. They only care about getting back into power. Even if it means lying to the people of Queensland to do it.

This photo below is one of the photos that is circulated everywhere on social media. It is in fact the Nulla Creek. Which by the way is about 5 klms away from the proposed dump site. How can the Greens get away with scaremongering like this.  They make out with their pretty little picture of water lilies and crystal clear water that this is where the spoil is going. Wrong!!

This is the Nulla Creek in the dry season. It is like this most of the year!!

This is the proposed area for the dredged spoil to go.  Nowhere near the Nulla Creek.   It is going in one of these reclamation areas below. This is the Kaili Valley Wetlands (Caley Valley) in their true form and how it looks most of the year.

Here are some more photos of the wetlands.  You never see the Greens spreading these photos around do you??  Makes you wonder why, doesn't it.  Could it be that they would not get so many to support their ridiculous claims, and would miss out on all those wonderful donations to "Save the Reef".

Abbot Point Dredging and Onshore Placement of Dredged Material Project

The Queensland Government has identified the Abbot Point Dredging and Onshore Placement of Dredge Material Project, as the first opportunity to utilise the enabling infrastructure developed under the Abbot Point Port and Wetland Project, as an alternative to the (approved) offshore disposal within the Great Barrier Reef MarinePark of dredging associated with terminals T0 and T3. The Abbot Point Dredging and Onshore Placement of Dredged Material Project consists of dredging approximately 1.7 million m3 of seabed for the purpose of ship berth pockets and aprons to support the development of facilities for coal export terminals T0 and T3. Dredging will be undertaken using a Cutter Section Dredger. The dredged material will be pumped via pipeline to the onshore dredge material management areas. Material placed within the dredged material management areas will be managed until completion of the dredging and preliminary settlement. A return water pipeline will take excess water from the dredge material management areas to a sub-tidal location, between 4 m and 10 m water depth, near the Abbot Point headland.

The Abbot Point and Wetland Project is located adjacent to the existing port area within the declared Abbot Point State Development Area. This project primarily consists of the construction of embankments to create primary and secondary dredge material management areas within a beneficial reuse area. It also includes the construction of three sections of a rail embankment that will support the future expansion of the North Galilee Basin Rail Project. The dredge material management areas will be designed to receive, settle and store dredge material, prior to beneficial reuse for land improvement in the Abbot Point State Development Area.

The very small area of the wetlands that will be used is approximately 2 - 3%  The rest will be enhanced.

For more information regarding the Wetland proposal please visit here : Abbot Point Port and Wetlands strategy

Inconvenient truths ignored by the climate propaganda machine.

“LEAVE fossil fuels in the ground,” Greens leader Christine Milne says. “Renewable energy is the future.” “Coal is a stranded asset.” “It’s driving global warming.” “It’s a huge risk to the planet,” she adds, lest we miss the point.

Milne’s prescription for a vibrant Australian economy includes “keeping the renewable energy target at 41,000 gigawatt-hours”, “stopping new coalmines”, “no coal-seam gas’’ and “no new ports”. “Jobs will come from green energy,” Milne assures us.

She could have added, there are fairies at the bottom of her garden.

Clearly Milne is unaware of the cost to California, Europe and Britain of their ultra green ­embrace.

The Golden State’s energy ­prices are 40 per cent above the US national average, plunging its manufacturing and agricultural regions into depression, with one in five living in poverty.

Researchers at Spain’s King Juan Carlos University have found renewable energy programs destroyed 2.2 jobs for every green one created.

A study by Verso Economics commissioned by the Scottish government concluded that for every job in the wind industry, 3.7 jobs were lost elsewhere.

For the average person, this is what is so confusing about the climate change debate.

Conformists tell us one thing, but the reality is different. In 2009, when chief scientist Penny Sackett threatened we had only five years to avoid “disastrous global warming”, we were alarmed. Now we realise she was being emotional.

When climate commissioner Tim Flannery said that “even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems”, it was sobering, but soon we were donating to flood victims and ­suspected he’d dreamt it up to scare us.

Climate scientists have been telling us for decades with “95 per cent certainty” that temperatures would move in lock step with CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. We have been force-fed on climate change being “extremely likely” (is that a scientific term?) to be the product of human activity.

Yet, with the highest human emissions of greenhouse gases in history, temperatures have gone nowhere for 18 years.

We were warned the heat was stored in the deep oceans and would return with a vengeance. Now, 3500 Argo buoys and NASA can’t find it.

Repeatedly proved wrong, the voice of authority demands silence from rational doubters.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, singing from the green song sheet, wants governments to turn their backs on coal, the cheapest, most efficient energy source on the planet. We are warned of tipping points and catastrophe but offered no scientific proof, just speculation.

Governments are falling meekly into line, with the Europeans boasting they will embrace an RET of 40 per cent by 2030. Sitting at 17 per cent, the EU is unlikely to meet even its 20 per cent target by 2020, let alone 80 per cent to 95 per cent by 2050.

If talk could reduce emissions, plants would be gasping. But rhetoric is different from reality. Some of Europe’s dirtiest coal-fired power stations are receiving subsidies to extend their lifespan. Germany is building 10 coal-fired plants to generate cheaper power. Whatever the dreamers say, economics will drive this debate, not climate theory.

The recent IPCC Synthesis Report is primarily a political document designed to push governments into signing a tougher global emissions abatement agreement in Paris next year. In the bizarre world of climate change, the plan is to legally oblige countries to put forward their proposals and report on progress.

However, no penalty will be imposed if countries miss targets or renege on commitments. It’s ­appearances that count.

In painting the bleakest picture they can, IPCC authors have projected CO2 levels reaching 1000 parts per million in 2100, largely through coal combustion, despite BP in its Energy Outlook 2035 stating, “Coal is expected to be the slowest growing major fuel, with demand rising 1.1 per cent a year by 2035”, because production costs rise as extraction goes deeper.

The IPCC case smacks of desperation. With improved energy efficiency and the growing use of nuclear power, the scenario it paints is highly improbable. Typically, it ignores the growing gap between climate models and observations. It overlooks the slowing of sea-level rises or that sea temperatures are within natural variability. It fails to mention that the extent of Antarctic sea ice is the highest since records began.

Nowhere are we told of glacier studies that confirm the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods were as warm as today. The pause is discounted, with the IPCC relying on a longer-term upward trend.

Inconvenient truths are not permitted in this alarmist report. The endorsement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make it harder for Australia to hold on to its comparative advantage of cheap coal, but our economic and business self-interest must come before international popularity, particularly given the case to do otherwise is so shaky.

While the debate over the RET and Direct Action shows all sides of politics remain hostage to the climate change cartel, an ABC radio poll asked: “Is the IPCC right that on current fossil use ‘projec­tories’, we are heading for a global warming of four or five degrees by century’s end?” The result? Of 3101 votes counted, 91 per cent voted no, only 9 per cent yes.

Enough said.

Maurice Newman chairs the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Committee. These views are his own.

Originally posted in The Australian

The War on Coal

Anti Coal Activists Strategy Exposed!!

Back in 2011 A COALITION of environmental activists released an extraordinary secret plan to ruin Australia's coal export boom by disrupting and delaying key projects and infrastructure. 

The radical environmentalist group Greenpeace spearheaded a push to block the expansion of Australia’s coal export industry, with “generous support from the Rockefeller Family Fund”, a charitable foundation based in New York.

The strategy included mounting legal challenges to up to a dozen key mines and exploiting the Lock The Gate movement against coal-seam gas to put pressure on governments to block mining.

  
The organizers’ draft plan says that it aims to raise funds in the United States as well as Australia to bankroll the campaign. Another foreign group involved in the campaign is CoalSwarm.

The campaign plans to build on the anti-coal-seam gas protests and to inflate concerns that mining will threaten the Great Barrier Reef.

But its overriding objective is to massively reduce the exports of coal to India and China, which import Australian coal to produce low-cost electricity needed to develop their emerging economies. Why? In order to cut carbon dioxide emissions.

The proposal for the Australian anti-coal movement, declared that 2012 and 2013 were critical years to stop tens of billions of dollars of investment and says the aim of the strategy is to "disrupt and delay" projects "while gradually eroding public and political support for the industry and continually building the power of the movement to win more".

The document - which is believed to have been written by Greenpeace Australia Pacific's John Hepburn and CoalSwarm's Bob Burton - issues a call to arms for coal activists nationwide.

The document names philanthropic consultant Sam Hardy and a foundation set up by Wotif founder and Greens donor Graeme Wood on the cover.

It outlines that up to $5.92 million would be used to fund litigation to stop coal port expansions, major rail lines and new mines; to wage a "battle of Galilee" to stop "mega-mines" in central Queensland's Galilee Basin and expose it as a "globally significant carbon bomb".

The strategy proposes hiring staff to conduct "industry scandal research" to help change the story of coal so that, instead of being seen as the backbone of the economy and a creator of jobs and prosperity, the coal sector is seen as a "destructive industry that destroys the landscape and communities, corrupts our democracy, and threatens the global climate". It also proposes pouring funds into "symbolically contesting coal industry conferences" and annual general meetings in a bid to increase investor uncertainty, to lead to delays and higher finance costs on projects, as well as involving health professionals - "among the most trusted people in the Australian community" - in the campaign.

The anti-coal movement's document details a six-pronged strategy, for which the first priority is to lodge legal challenges against coal port expansions in Queensland and NSW, two major rail lines - particularly the rail line to the Galilee Basin that would unlock a series of major mines - and up to a dozen key mines.

Link to Report: Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom



Let's look at who is involved in the Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom!!

Greenpeace 

Greenpeace is the largest environmental organization in the world, with an international membership of over 3 million and offices in over 40 countries. Forbes magazine once described it as “a skillfully managed business” with full command of “the tools of direct mail and image manipulation — and tactics that would bring instant condemnation if practiced by a for-profit corporation.” But Greenpeace has escaped public censure by hiding behind the mask of its “non-profit” status and its U.S. tax exemption. In other countries, however, Greenpeace has not been as lucky: Both Canada and New Zealand have revoked the organization’s non-profit status, noting that the group’s overly politicized agenda no longer has any “public benefit.”

 

• Greenpeace campaigns against all forms of energy production except for wind and solar. Unfortunately, a whopping 98% of the worlds energy supply comes from sources other than wind and solar, This is not likely to change anytime soon due to the cost, both in dollars and in raw materials, required to produce wind turbines and photovoltaic arrays.
• Greenpeace claims to be dedicated to saving the whales. They are happy to exploit the emotional impact of the slaughter of these noble creatures to raise funds and recruit members, but less interested in acting to end the practice of whaling worldwide. In principle, Greenpeace is not even opposed to whaling.
• Greenpeace is against the use of numerous chemical substances including, but not limited to, elemental chlorine, one of the building blocks of life on our planet. Considering that chlorine is responsible for providing much of the world with clean drinking water, and the Earth’s population with some 85 percent of all pharmaceuticals and vitamins, this hard-line stance must be considered both uninformed and inhumane.
• Greenpeace is unwavering in its conviction that the unforseen health and environmental consequences of planting genetically engineered crops that can grow in hostile environments will forever outweigh any potential humanitarian benefits. While they mount protests aimed at ripping these mutant "Frankenfoods" from the soil and the supermarket shelves, impoverished populations around the globe suffer from the preventable pandemic of malnutrition.
• Greenpeace remains bent on destroying the aquaculture industry while they continue to raise alarm about the status of wild fish stocks. Using the apocalyptic image of oceans picked clean of all aquatic organisms, Greenpeace keeps raking in the donations while battling against an industry that is already taking great pains to ensure its sustainability.

Instead of working hand-in-hand with business owners to forge a path towards a sustainable future like other less myopic environmental organizations, Greenpeace’s dogmatic adherence to the precautionary principile  causes them to overlook the fatal flaws inherent in their own radical policies.

Greenpeace has spread worldwide, the Australian arm of their organization has many followers. It is this part of their organization that created the "Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom"

Rockefeller Family Fund

Rockefeller Family Fund is a U.S.-based, family-led public charity that initiates, cultivates, and funds strategic efforts to promote a sustainable, just, free, and participatory society.

Since 2006, RFF has focused its Environment program almost exclusively on climate change.  Their program emphasizes public education on the risks of global warming and implementation of sound solutions. RFF is interested in the development of initiatives designed to enact aggressive policies at the state and national levels to reduce carbon emissions; disrupt the coal life cycle from mining and burning to ash disposal and exporting; bring diverse and compelling new voices into the climate debate; and examine how special interests are distorting science and delaying constructive steps to deal with this impending global crisis.

There are several Rockefeller Funds/Foundations, all traced back to the famous Rockefeller Family in the USA , who made their millions on big OIL!!

Coal Swarm

 The purpose of CoalSwarm is to create a collaborative information clearinghouse for the worldwide citizens’ movement to address the impacts of coal and move to cleaner sources of energy. Containing over 7,000 articles on coal-related topics posted on the SourceWatch wiki, this open-source reference provides a constantly expanding body of information that anyone can utilize and contribute to.

The CoalSwarm wiki was launched in early 2008 and later that year was accepted as a project of Earth Island Institute, an incubator for innovative projects in ecology and social justice. Affiliation with Earth Island Institute gave CoalSwarm access to logistical resources and 501(c)3 tax status, allowing the project to receive tax-deductable donations as well as foundation support. In addition to donations by private citizens, CoalSwarm has received grants from the Carlin Family Fund, the Energy Foundation, the European Climate Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Sierra Club, and the Wallace Global Fund.

Bob Burton - one of the creators of the "Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom" is involved in Coal Swarm.

John Hepburn

John grew up in Central Queensland where his father worked as an engineer in the coal industry. He completed degrees in business and engineering from the Queensland University of Technology and worked for several years as a production engineer making components for the coal, gas and oil industries, before making a career about-turn. After establishing several successful non-profit recycling businesses, John was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study community based environmental programs in the US and Europe. He has worked on a wide range of environmental issues for over fifteen years including ten years at Greenpeace Australia Pacific where he performed a wide variety of roles including managing the climate and energy campaign, the genetic engineering campaign, and the outreach and mobilization department. During this time, he also worked for Greenpeace International as an advisor to campaign teams in India, China and Japan.

In 2006 he co-ordinated the successful Greenpeace International campaign to prevent the imminent commercial release of genetically engineered rice into China.

John is also involved in The Sunrise Project - another anti fossil fuel organization. The Sunrise Project is also heavily involved with aligning with some of the Traditional Owners who are opposed to the Carmichael Coal Mine in the Galilee Basin. These Traditional Owners have apparently accepted money for their help!

 Sam Hardy

Sam Hardy is also involved with the "Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom"

Dr Samantha Hardy is a campaign strategist, an experienced social and environmental policy advisor and an expert in philanthropy, grant making and major gift fundraising.

Sam worked with WWF-Australia in Brisbane and Sydney as a Fundraising Manager where she lead major fundraising and advocacy campaigns to save the Great Barrier Reef and the forests of Borneo. Sam also worked as Head of Advancement at the University of Queensland’s Faculty of Business Economics and Law where she managed a gift budget of $18 million. Over her 15-year public policy and community campaigning career, Sam has advised the British Cabinet, the Queensland Premiers Office, the Commission for Children and Young People and numerous intergovernmental and non-profit organisations on priority social, economic and environmental policy interventions and campaigns. One significant policy achievement was her advice to Patricia Hewitt MP, UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Minister for Women, which lead to new laws to give parents with young children and disabled children the right to request flexible working from their employer, a right that has now been enshrined into European law and has been adopted as a policy position around the world.

Sam has also provided strategic research and advice to the Graeme Wood Foundation who have also been mentioned in the "Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom"

 

Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom

The anti-coal-mining alliance launched this project at its first Australian National Coal Convergence conference, which was held in the Blue Mountains.

 The alliance included the following groups:


Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). One of its key personnel, Mark Ogge, is on the anti-coal campaign’s Strategy Advisory Group. In 2008, BZE presented its “Transition to a Zero Carbon Future”, outlining its ambitious “coal switch” philosophy, under which the state of Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions would be slashed by 50 per cent in three years.


GetUp!  The prominent left-wing online campaign website.

United Voice, A large services-based trade union affiliated to the ALP. One of its representatives to the anti-coal campaign is Holly Creenaune, an activist with Friends of the Earth (FOE), who co-authored an article promoting a “low-carbon future, focusing on green renewable energy sources and smarter energy use”, in FOE’s Chain Reaction magazine.  A second United Voice representative to the campaign is Ellie Smith, who signed an advertisement on the Gold Coast Greens web page in January 2011 calling for volunteers for a “Nature refuge and mining conference organizer … to halt coal production expansion in Queensland”.

The Pew Environment Group, This conservation group is associated with the US-based Pew Charitable Trusts, whose Barry Traill is on the anti-coal Program Reference Group.

Lock the Gate Alliance Inc. Partly organized by Drew Hutton, a long-time activist, academic, campaigner and past political candidate for the Queensland Greens.

The Environmental Defender’s Office Queensland Inc., Which is part of a nation-wide network of nine non-profit, non-government community legal centres working in the area of public interest planning and environment law. The centre, which is dedicated to fighting “climate change”, receives funding from “Commonwealth and State Community Legal Service Funding Programs and Queensland EPA project funding,” as well as from donations.

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW,  Founded in 1955, one of the spokespersons, Armidale resident Carmel Flint, has also contributed to the anti-coal-mining campaign strategy. She appeared before a Senate inquiry into coal-seam gas in Narrabri, representing a diverse coalition of environmental groups including the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the Wilderness Society and Friends of the Earth. The Nature Conservation Council of NSW is a non-profit, non-government organization representing more than 100 community environment groups across NSW.

Mineral Policy Institute, an Australian think-tank aimed at holding companies accountable on environmental issues.

The Australia Institute, whose executive director Dr Richard Denniss is also on the anti-coal Program Advisory Group.

Mackay Conservation Group,  is the peak environmental organization in the Mackay region in Queensland, Australia. The organization focuses its conservation and environmental protection efforts on the Central Queensland Coast and Brigalow Belt bioregions in the area from Bowen in the north, west to Clermont and South to St Lawrence, and the off-shore islands of the Great Barrier Reef.
Mackay Conservation Group receives some funding for specific projects from government, and relies on volunteers and donations for its advocacy work. A non profit organization with tax deductibility status, Mackay Conservation Group is run by a volunteer Committee.
 
Also involved are : United Voice, Capricornia Conservation Council ,  Environment Victoria and the Climate Action Network Australia.



Below:  excerpts taken from the "Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom" document!!

 

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The war on COAL has only just begun!

Let's set the RECORD STRAIGHT, do not be mislead by the GREEN LIES.

We have shown that a very large part of our community is in support of the advancement of projects in our region, in particular the Abbot Point expansion.

Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney addressed our Supporters Rally on Wednesday the 17th September, so we consider that we are fairly up to date.

However green groups have come out with new objections and outright lies about proposed plans proving that their real motive is - they want coal left in the ground, mining stopped and for us and our community to starve.

In this media statement on the 18th September, 2014 from the Fight for the Reef website, they are clearly stating that they have not seen the proposal. This is correct as it had not been released to the public yet.
 

On their Facebook page also on the 18th September, 2014 they shared this meme which claims that they know where the dredge spoil disposal site is, supposedly showing it to be in the worst possible place they could dream up. Their lies and their emotional appeals encourages their followers to donate money to fund court cases and the like. This just proves how untruthful they really are. Disgraceful and deceitful come to mind.

The only information that anyone has, is from this statement in the link below from Jeff Seeney.


Statement




A map of the Abbot Point Beneficial Reuse Strategy area is available to download from the link below:


Map

Only by working together can we succeed as a Community, as a State and as a Nation united.

Thank you for your continuing support for a fair deal.

Signed:

Abbot Point Expansion Supporters