QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has written to the Commonwealth requesting extra assistance for coal mines in her state.
16/07/2009
RETRENCHED coal miners are hopeful that the Queensland Government’s fast-tracked infrastructure projects will provide work to those that have lost their jobs.
30/03/2009
QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh and her cabinet ministers have attended a Community Cabinet forum at the Highfields Cultural Centre to discuss coal mining in the Felton Valley.
27/04/2009
PREMIER Anna Bligh has visited the $350m Jilalan Rail Yard project which is expected to benefit the future coal industry.
31/03/2009
PREMIER Anna Bligh has been handed a plate of coal to wash down with polluted water as part of protests by farmers on the Darling Downs.
04/11/2008
TEN protesters dressed as vegetables and a Grim Reaper among many others have voiced their disapproval of the expansion of coal mining on southern Queensland agricultural land.
16/03/2009
QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh presented two prestigious QLD Export Awards to Andy Hill, CEO and Chris Wright, Executive Vice President – Solutions of Oniqua.
26/10/2009
XSTRATA says it did not give permission for data revealing that the company would have to sack 1000 coal miners if the emissions trading scheme is implemented to be released publicly.
19/03/2009
THE Proposed Wiggins Island Coal Terminal in central Queensland has progressed to the final stages of planning and is one step closer to development, according to the Queensland Premier.
27/11/2008
HANCOCK Prospecting is confident its proposed $7.5b thermal coal mine project in the Galilee Coal Basin, Queensland will be given the green light.
24/02/2009
WARATAH Coal has unveiled it’s proposed “China First” thermal coal mining project which is located in the Galilee Basin, Queensland.
28/05/2009
INTERNATIONAL solar thermal energy provider Ausra and State Government owned company CS Energy have joined forces to investigate a solar boost project for the 750 megawatt Kogan Creek coal-fired Power Station near Chinchilla, Queensland.
01/10/2009
PROTESTERS have picketed Premier Anna Bligh’s South Brisbane electorate office as well as Mining and Energy Minister Stephen Robertson and Climate Change Minister Kate Jones offices in an attempt to persuade the government to phase out coal-fired power stations.
10/06/2009
A CAIRNS IGA is reporting receiving up to 100 resumes each week, with the majority being from displaced miners.
16/02/2009
THE Central Queensland regional coal industry is on track to receive a major boost.
09/10/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Government has secured the future of the Northern Missing Link project after reaching agreement with two coal companies to get the $1.1 billion project off the ground.
27/10/2009
A new technology designed for work on rapid, large scale CO2 emissions reduction from existing coal and gas fired power stations has been unveiled as a curtain raiser to three major trial installations along the east coast of Australia next year.
20/11/2009
Clive Palmer has secured what he is hailing as the largest export contract in Australia’s history.
09/02/2010
FELTON farmers have accused Ambre Energy of trying to sway opinion through their investment in seats at an exclusive dinner with Premier Bligh in December 2008.
07/08/2009
THE BLIGH Government has announced that in 2009-10 it will invest $3.86 million as part of the Carbon Geosequestration Initiative to the identification and evaluation of sites suitable for the safe long-term underground storage of carbon dioxide.
17/06/2009