A super port development was planned for a protected environment area intended to have no development. The plan to dig and deliver - to start - 50 million tonnes a year of export coal, was in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, and contained Ramsar wetlands.
(Full Article)Public meetings were held this week in Byfield, Queensland, a small town close to the planned Waratah three coal-mines port. The port plan was to drain wetlands, and dredge the ocean.
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