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Coal Mining in Central Queensland
Coal Mining in the Bowen Basin of Central Queensland has brought a great deal of wealth and prosperity to the region, but at a significant cost to the environment.
On the global scale, every tonne of coal mined will produced CO2 emissions and contribute to Climate Change.
On the local scale, coal mines have a devastating effect on the natural environment and on good quality farming land. While the coal industry likes to boast that they only effect a few percent of Queensland's land area, the effect on that area is extreme.
Although we have put up with the environmental impacts of coal mining in Queensland in the past, the forecast boom in mining development will create a massive degradation of the environment which is no longer acceptable.
Capricorn Conservation Council has developed a set of policy positions on mining which is now displayed here.
See also Bimblebox Nature Refuge