It seems that for Messrs Springborg (current State Opposition Leader, pictured) and Seeney (the previous one) and others in the Liberal National Party Parliamentary heirarchy, the farmlands threat of Ambre's Felton Coal Project has become a non-event.
Here we have Felton which traditionally has recorded the one of the most concentrated and unvarying Country Party and then National Party votes in the State and only two LNP members have come to its public defence
Those two are Mike Horan, MP for Toowoomba South, and Ray Hopper, MP for Darling Downs. Both have made strong .public statement assisting the Friends of Felton.
Stuart Copeland also has made a statement but by comparison is a very cautious one.
So there is, in fact, a split - resouces versus farmland retention - in the party's heirarchy.
All Springborg has to do to mollify the growing anger and intense feeling of political betrayal out therein the Felon Valley is to put aside less than half a day to visit the are aand have a bloody look.
He's being called BBB - Borg, Blather and Bombast.
So what’s happening with the Project. The resources company Ambre which is pushing the Felton Project is reported to have canvassed the offer of jobs to local when and if the project gets going. The University of Southern Queensland has also had talks with the company over the future of its Mr Kent astronomy investment. It fears that air pollution could interfere with its research work.
Ambre has filed an application with the Toowoomba Regional Council to allow an on-site office at Felton but this has still to come forward.
Council still to decide on-site office application
No application for mining development has been received by the Council and therefore there is nothing in a legal sense to object to or make a submission about.
As a major project this application will come under the jurisdiction of the State Government and will be covered by the Mineral Resources Act, the Development and Public Works Organisation Act which override the requirements of the local planning schemes.
An Environmental Impact Study(EIS) is required and when this is available the Council as well as the public will be able to make a submission to the Terms of Reference for this EIS.
Council has received an application to construct a shed on land in the same rural area and this application will be considered when the time for submission passes and all information is received.
Councillors asked questions at the committee meetings this week. It is hoped the Premier's announcement to require SIAs of all new mines will help reduce the impacts on people and the environment.
The State's announced $33 million a year for three years will not go far when spread across the whole of Queensland.
Some logical order must be introduced for the way mining is approved from now on rather than what appears to have been an ad hock approach in the past.
Here we have Felton which traditionally has recorded the one of the most concentrated and unvarying Country Party and then National Party votes in the State and only two LNP members have come to its public defence
Those two are Mike Horan, MP for Toowoomba South, and Ray Hopper, MP for Darling Downs. Both have made strong .public statement assisting the Friends of Felton.
Stuart Copeland also has made a statement but by comparison is a very cautious one.
So there is, in fact, a split - resouces versus farmland retention - in the party's heirarchy.
All Springborg has to do to mollify the growing anger and intense feeling of political betrayal out therein the Felon Valley is to put aside less than half a day to visit the are aand have a bloody look.
He's being called BBB - Borg, Blather and Bombast.
So what’s happening with the Project. The resources company Ambre which is pushing the Felton Project is reported to have canvassed the offer of jobs to local when and if the project gets going. The University of Southern Queensland has also had talks with the company over the future of its Mr Kent astronomy investment. It fears that air pollution could interfere with its research work.
Ambre has filed an application with the Toowoomba Regional Council to allow an on-site office at Felton but this has still to come forward.
Council still to decide on-site office application
No application for mining development has been received by the Council and therefore there is nothing in a legal sense to object to or make a submission about.
As a major project this application will come under the jurisdiction of the State Government and will be covered by the Mineral Resources Act, the Development and Public Works Organisation Act which override the requirements of the local planning schemes.
An Environmental Impact Study(EIS) is required and when this is available the Council as well as the public will be able to make a submission to the Terms of Reference for this EIS.
Council has received an application to construct a shed on land in the same rural area and this application will be considered when the time for submission passes and all information is received.
Councillors asked questions at the committee meetings this week. It is hoped the Premier's announcement to require SIAs of all new mines will help reduce the impacts on people and the environment.
The State's announced $33 million a year for three years will not go far when spread across the whole of Queensland.
Some logical order must be introduced for the way mining is approved from now on rather than what appears to have been an ad hock approach in the past.
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