QLD:Green lobby seeks coal mine ban for Cape

AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2011
QLD:Green lobby seeks coal mine ban for Cape

Powerful green lobby group The Wilderness Society will pressure Labor and the LNP to
commit to bans on coal mining in Cape York ahead of the next Queensland state election.

The environmental group expressed alarm today at the proliferation of coal mining releases
on land surrounding one of Queensland's largest national parks, Rinyirru, in Cape York.

Wilderness Society campaigner GAVAN MCFADZEAN says any coal mining operations in the
region could undermine the Queensland and Federal governments' efforts to have Cape York
declared a World Heritage Area.

He says the group's concerned by the sudden burst of interest in the region's resources.

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