The Nth Qld people who really matter want ADANI to go ahead to create jobs and growth in this deprived area.

What do the vile Greenies reckon they should eat - witchetty grubs ?



Mine needed for 'dying' outback Qld: KAP
AAP 9:13am May 24, 2017



Key Queensland parliament crossbencher Rob Katter says the state's outback economy is "dying" and the stalled Carmichael mega-mine is the best way to revive it.

The Mount Isa MP, who along with his Katter's Australian Party colleague Shane Knuth hold and a handful of other crossbenchers hold the balance of power in state parliament, says a feeling of "despair" would deepen in places like Townsville if the $21 billion mine project is held up.

"I'm not saying it's all perfect and kosher with the environment but it's the best solution we've got and we're dying out there," he told ABC Radio on Wednesday.

© AAP 2017


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The utterly boring uninformed Greenie sympathizer STATUS SYMBOL TROLL MM is dropping Greenie witchetty grubs again.

But now a welcome relief from the nobody troll desperately seeking recognition and back to the TOPIC.

Now the Greenie slime in Qld is uncovered.




Jackie Trad kowtows to Greens and walks away from regions
Michael McKenna Reporter Brisbane The Australian 12:00AM May 24, 2017
   
The brawl over the Adani royalties deal exposes the real-world consequences of the deep factional and personal divisions in the Palaszczuk government.

Ever since stumbling into power, the government has been riven by discord, distrust and a tug-of-war between governing and activism.


The 11th-hour challenge to the royalties deal from left cabinet ministers, led by Deputy Premier Jackie Trad, now threatens a project that promises thousands of new jobs.

Trad, Energy Minister Mark Bailey and others argue it is about keeping an election promise of no taxpayer subsidies for the mine — even though Trad signed off on Treasury exploring the royalties deal in mid-2015. The truth is this is about green politics, and whether Trad and her fellow left MPs want to be associated with being in power when Australia’s newest and biggest coalmine got the go-ahead.

It is a legitimate policy question — given climate change and the widening call for action, but it is a debate that should have been settled when then premier Anna Bligh, advised by Trad, welcomed Adani some seven years ago to open-up the Galilee coal province.

After the Greens last year won their first council ward in Brisbane — in the middle of Trad’s inner-city electorate — Labor MPs are on edge.

Now, it seems, they are willing to damage Queensland’s reputation with overseas investors such as Adani — at the center of India’s economic boom — to appeal for urban green preferences, which are likely to flow Labor’s way regardless. It is a big risk.

More than a handful of marginal Labor seats are in central and north Queensland.

The region has been ravaged by the resources downturn, with tens of thousands of jobs lost and unemployment high, especially among the youth.

The Carmichael mine is the biggest project on the horizon, and regional economic boost is undeniable.

If Labor loses those regional seats, it makes it almost impossible to be re-elected.

It is tipping point for Queensland Labor, with the question now as to whether it wants to be a progressive party — probably out of office — or a worker’s party in government.


Some of the 19 comments

Dennis 50 minutes ago
Shorten and Trad are cut with the same cloth. Both don't want this project and will look for any way to stop it and make it look like it is someone else's fault. They just keep raising the height of the bar and when eventually the company can't jump any higher, they can say ' see we told you so!'

kim 59 minutes ago
Qld labor looks to SA Labor as a role model. Get out the candles. 

Andrew 1 hour ago
Ultimately though, Qlders should have known what they were getting when they voted labor - rule by CFMEU and Greens and Getup!

Andrew 1 hour ago
I hate to see this happen, but maybe if it sops Bill Shorten becoming PM, because miners and those rural Qld seats don't vote labr, well that could be something of a silver lining (would much rather have the project though, and I agree that Turnbull is useless, but at least he professes support for the mine).

Conrad is a Winner AGAIN 1 hour ago
Central Queensland desperately needs this mine. This part of Australian has done it hard since the end off the mining boom.
Labor are city centric and can't see the big picture and are not representative of regional Queensland.

Kevin 59 minutes ago
@Conrad is a Winner AGAIN  And increasingly not representative of blue collar workers.

Mike 1 hour ago
I wonder sometimes whether international investors experience the same rubbish in other democracies (not including dictatorships where often pay-offs are the MO) as they seem to have with Australian governments and the lobbyists opposing their plans.  Is this a peculiar Australian disease?  It seems that a small band of well organised and funded lobbyists - often not elected to be the spoke-persons for the rest of us - can bring about the failure of the projects to gain approvals to proceed, even when our stringent environmental and Due Diligence requirements are satisfied.  Just why do we bother to have such standards when these people seem to have the influence to deny opportunities for this country to grow our wealth and provide employment to many crying out for work.  The goal of lobbyists cannot the be-all and should be required to show who are the beneficiaries of their activism.  I suspect if you follow the money trail, you will find the Svengali's in the background who are pulling the strings.

I have recently spoken at length with people who know Adani, and their description of the man and his organisation is totally counter to what is being reported in the  media and promoted by many who are nothing more than 'talking heads'.  These people had no barrel to push about Adani, so who is one to believe - the people who know him personally, or those who have an agenda to discredit what he trying to achieve? 

Jovial Monk wrote on May 24^th, 2017 at 9:59am:



If anyone is wishing it is you, wishing your unsubstantiated lies were even close to being true.



Destroying jobs and destroy people and committing whole communities to a life of poverty is the only truth coming out of this from QLD labor.

We need to separate the north from the self service fkken scum in the south and it needs to happen yesterday.
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The Adani mine is not viable and that has been obvious for a long time.

They were getting $1Bn for a rail line and unlimited water from the Great Artesian Basin. How is that not trying to get the mine up and running? Just how much public money does fvvcken Adani want anyway?

Jovial Monk wrote on May 24^th, 2017 at 10:40am:



Well, the deputy premier and the left faction are deliberately undermining the project to ensure it does not go ahead, The premier handed $600 000 of QLD taxpayer funds to green groups to stop the project through legal challenges.

So far the only people who have received any public money are the anti- jobs green groups. 


And the will do exactly the same for any projects in the north.

The mine is not viable and that is that.

Qld Labor made Adani the invaluable gift of unlimited water out the GAB. No matter how much the mine is subsidised it does not have customers nor finance! Unviable!

FGS look for another project that is viable and stop crying about Adani!

Jovial Monk wrote on May 24^th, 2017 at 5:07pm:




The coal will replace India's filthy coal with higher calorie and cleaner coal, so there isd a very good market and a growing market. And don't forget the government of south east Queensland regularly subsidises foreign companies to set up in brisbane, Why shouldn't;t the north get the same?

And if this fails due to the gross incompetence of the QLD labor government what makes you think anyone would want to do business here? We have an anti- jobs and anti- business government that looks to appease the QLD greens who they owe for gaining power.


There has been billions available for infrastructure and no-one wants to do business with us because of this government, so what do you suggest?

On my board I recorded the history of the Carmichael mine as potential customers left one after the other, as various banks/financiers pulled out of providing finance. The Qld Labor govt gave concession after concession the latest of which was the GIFT of unlimited water out of the GAB and STILL the bloody mine is not viable!

Meantime, 2/3 or so of the GBR has been killed by AGW warming the waters the GBR is in beyond the ability of the coral to bear, killing a large part of GBR tourism.