Wild Rivers out as LNP 'balance' rules

Sally Cripps
Updated December 15 2015 - 6:25pm, first published August 16 2014 - 4:00am
Existing resource company operations in the Cooper Basin show that mining can be conducted safely without restrictive Wild Rivers legislation, according to Quilpie mayor Stuart Mackenzie. Photo: Beach Energy.
Existing resource company operations in the Cooper Basin show that mining can be conducted safely without restrictive Wild Rivers legislation, according to Quilpie mayor Stuart Mackenzie. Photo: Beach Energy.

MINING and gas activity appears to have overtaken irrigation exploitation fears as the main concern of people upset at last week’s repeal of the Wild Rivers Act by the state government.

Sally Cripps

Sally Cripps

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