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WELCOME to an online home, open to all, whose main focus (not exclusively) is regional and rural Australia. Geoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16952473688008286364noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-75970616995296090322018-06-25T23:02:00.000+10:002018-06-25T23:02:29.397+10:00Peter Spencer's background story Part 3 of 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In January 2011, Peter Spencer became aware of an interesting extract from the Queensland Government Hansard which seems to show proof of collusion between the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments to use uncleared land for the Kyoto Protocol requirement.</div>
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2011 was a very promising year for Mr Spencer. He was in court several times and turned up many documents which seemed to prove that an agreement existed between the Commonwealth and the State. Access to Cabinet documents was approved by Judge Emmett with access to be granted by State and Federal governments progressively to 2nd September, 2011.</div>
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The latter part of 2011 and into 2012 was spent haggling over documents which were required to be disclosed. Many of the 3500 Commonwealth documents were redacted or refused on the grounds that they had “Cabinet privilege”.</div>
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On 26th November, 2012 three High Court judges struck down Mr. Spencer’s access to Cabinet documents which were needed to show that state and federal governments colluded to introduce land clearing legislation to lock up carbon on Australian farms so it could meet carbon targets under the Kyoto protocol without compensation.</div>
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For four years, the approach taken by the Australian Government Solicitor (for the Commonwealth) had been to deny the existence of any documents showing the existence of informal agreements between the Commonwealth and the Sates (relating to sequestration of carbon and land use change laws and measures) before and after the Kyoto meeting of the UNFCCC in 1997.</div>
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In May 2013, still in discovery hearings with Justice Cowdroy ruling that if relevant documents can be found they must be handed over. On 30th May 2013 Mr. Spencer had a productive day in court before Justice Cowdroy.</div>
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Barrister Peter King started by giving a detailed chronological account of signed international treaties, intergovernmental agreements, commonwealth/state legislation, commonwealth/state agreements and commonwealth/state committees starting with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and followed on citing in detail many High Court authorities with regards to the merits of the case.</div>
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Justice Cowdroy ordered that various State and Commonwealth documents be produced within eight weeks with the court able to reconvene with three days’ notice in the event that this order not be honoured.</div>
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24th November, 2014 was the start of the major hearing in the Federal Court to determine if there was a clear direction to the States by the Commonwealth.</div>
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In spite of the considerable evidence showing dialogue between the Commonwealth and the States about Carbon emissions, the Judge managed to find that an informal arrangement between the states and the Commonwealth was not proven.<br />Justice Mortimer handed down judgement in July 2015, rejecting Peter Spencer’s claims against the NSW and the Commonwealth Governments</div>
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To read more, this web page documents this major court case - <a href="https://joinpeterspencer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Peter Spencer verses The Commonwealth.</a></div>
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Mr Spencer appealed, with a 3 day hearing starting on February 27 2017 before a Full Court of three judges of the Federal Court. Eventually decision was published on 15 February 2018 to the negative.</div>
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But Peter Spencer was not giving up, on March 20 2018 it was announced on the Support Peter Spencer & Australian Farmers Facebook page that he is taking his case all the way back to the highest court in the land - The High Court. Read more <a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/2018/05/peter-spencer-not-giving-up-back-to.html" target="_blank">[here]</a></div>
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The action through the various courts beginning in 2005, looks like it has come to an end on June 21, 2018 when Peter Spencer was informed that the application for special leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia was refused with costs. </div>
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Further reading:<br />'<a href="https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2016/10/death-property-rights/" target="_blank">The Death of Property Rights</a>' by Alan Moran</div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Support-Peter-Spencer-Australian-Farmers-234917523046/" target="_blank">Support Peter Spencer & Australian Farmers</a> Facebook page</div>
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<a href="http://www.farmweekly.com.au/news/agriculture/property/general-news/no-just-terms-on-acquisition/2754461.aspx" target="_blank">No just terms on 'acquisition' </a>with quotes from <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Murdoch University law lecturer Lorraine Finlay. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">'<a href="http://catallaxyfiles.com/2018/02/19/courts-refuse-to-protect-australian-private-property-rights/" target="_blank">Courts refuse to protect Australian private property rights</a>' by Alan Moran<br />'</span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/programs/nsw-country-hour/2017-02-28/hunger-striking-farmer-peter-spencer-back-in-court/8310528" target="_blank">Carbon credit hunger strike farmer Peter Spencer returns to court in fight against Commonwealth</a>' by Michael Condon</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Spencer's background story <a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/2018/06/peter-spencers-background-story-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1 of 3</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Spencer's background story <a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/2018/06/peter-spencers-background-story-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2 of 3</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-79901287330028080792018-06-25T22:31:00.000+10:002018-06-25T23:04:04.834+10:00Peter Spencer's background story Part 2 of 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“In recent decades, thousands of farms have become economically marginal and have gone out of business. What is not widely known is that this “marginality” has often been the result not of market forces but of government regulation. In particular, governments in pursuit of urban green votes have imposed a vast range of devastating new costs on farmers”<br />
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Peter Spencer wrote this in 2006 after he commenced legal action in 2005 for just compensation, unable to re-clear his farm to bring it back into productivity.</div>
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On 22 November, 2009 after reportedly 200 court events and the threat of bank foreclosure on his property, Peter climbed up a wind-monitoring tower on his property (later dubbed “The Tower of Hope) and commenced a hunger strike.</div>
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Chris Berg’s article, ‘<a href="https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/lost-property-home-in-deed-but-not-in-fact-20100109-lzs0.html" target="_blank">Lost property: home in deed but not in fact</a>’ published 10th Jan 2010:<br />
“NSW farmer Peter Spencer is coming up to the 50th day of his hunger strike. Spencer is arguing that he should be adequately compensated for native vegetation regulations that prevent his chopping down trees on his land.</div>
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The Government hasn't literally taken Spencer's property away. He hasn't been kicked off: he's still allowed to wander his land at his leisure. He still holds the title. But his right to use the land has definitely been taken. And if Spencer is not compensated for this regulatory taking, how is it much different from legalised theft?</div>
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Peter Spencer's hunger strike in defence of his human right to property is drastic and dangerous. We can only hope it won't be tragic. But his desperation must make us rethink our attitude towards this essential, but increasingly neglected, human right.”</div>
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Two days later Peter Spencer ended the hunger strike. His drastic action achieved 3 results. On Feb 2nd 2010 the Property Rights Rally was held on in Canberra, attended by thousands of farmers, with Alan Jones as MC. Following the February Rally came the Senate Inquiry into Native Vegetation Laws, Greenhouse Gas Abatement and Climate Change Measures. The inquiry received almost 400 submissions. The Report was completed in April 2010, and received support from both Labor and Coalition Senators, although to date it has not been acted upon. Importantly avenues to pursue the legal case were opened.</div>
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On Wednesday 1 September 2010, the Full Bench of the High Court held that the case Spencer v Commonwealth of Australia should not have been summarily dismissed in the Federal Court in March 2009 on the grounds that Mr Spencer had "no reasonable prospect" of successfully prosecuting the proceedings (under section 31A of the Federal Court of Australia Act).</div>
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This allowed Peter’s legal battle to continue.</div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">'<a href="http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2009/12/peter-spencer/" target="_blank">Peter Spencer</a>' by Justin Jefferson </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://larvatusprodeo.ozblogistan.com.au/archives/2009/12/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/" target="_blank">"Tower of Hope" or vale of tears</a> by Brian Bahnisch</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">'<a href="https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/pole-sitter-farmer-peter-spencer-in-tears-over-massive-support-for-his-cause/news-story/226439904952c9aac4bf716eeee1ef57" target="_blank">Pole sitter farmer Peter Spencer in tears over massive support for his cause</a>' </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">'<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/site-archive/rural/news/content/201009/s2999479.htm" target="_blank">Peter Spencer wins right to appeal to High Court</a>'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Spencer's background story <a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/2018/06/peter-spencers-background-story-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1 of 3</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Spencer's background story<a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/2018/06/peter-spencers-background-story-part-3.html" target="_blank"> Part 3 of 3</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1980, Peter Spencer bought 14,000 acres in southern New South Wales (near Shannon’s flats and on the ACT border). It had previously been significantly cleared during the 1930’s and 40’s, however, regrowth had occurred so that only about 2000 acres was uncleared at the time of purchase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout the 1980's Peter was involved in tourism in the Papua New Guinea highlands. He became close to Jiga tribesman Paias Wingti, who when he regained office as Prime Minister of PNG bought Peter to Port Moresby in the mid 1990's. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter drafted a National Law and Order policy which dealt with corruption, which later may have been the reason an attempt was made on his life and encouraged a permanent return to Australia to begin work as a farmer on Shannon's Flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter returned to find the laws had changed and he could no longer manage the regrowth to return the land to productivity. In 1997, the Federal Government under John Howard decided to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments with shifty accounting: they offset greenhouse-gas emissions with uncleared vegetation on private property. To avoid any obligation for compensation (under the Australian constitution), legislation to prevent land clearing was used at State level. NSW Premier Bob Carr introduced the Native Vegetation Act.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter attempted to use his land gainfully with a trout fishing enterprise – this ran into water problems. He set up a fine wool breeding program (in association with CSIRO) – the Canberra fires of 2003 destroyed surrounding national parks, driving dogs and kangaroos onto his property, killing many of his sheep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2005, Peter commenced legal action for just compensation for the loss of his property rights.</span></div>
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Read - '<a href="http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4089&page=0" target="_blank">The war on farmers</a>' by Peter Spencer, written in 2006</div>
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Further references for the above background information:</div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/p/peter-spencer.html</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Spencer's background story <a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/2018/06/peter-spencers-background-story-part-2.html" target="_blank">Part 2 of 3</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Spencer's background story <a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com/2018/06/peter-spencers-background-story-part-3.html" target="_blank">Part 3 of 3</a></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-70927806574285270852018-05-11T18:53:00.000+10:002018-05-11T18:53:56.808+10:00Peter Spencer - Not giving up - Back to the High Court<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mGrj0SA8UX5rpoV-h5kb80kKcnVF9ECRF0liaXNLFG4BvyKrYzxqozkgFQ56BT0am415Iw7hFwTRa71aishv8hRmUqrnTisrYntvOOoRcExLhRjfdIuTG6VyyBToHDmILF_9DewIdA/s1600/Peter+Spencer+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mGrj0SA8UX5rpoV-h5kb80kKcnVF9ECRF0liaXNLFG4BvyKrYzxqozkgFQ56BT0am415Iw7hFwTRa71aishv8hRmUqrnTisrYntvOOoRcExLhRjfdIuTG6VyyBToHDmILF_9DewIdA/s1600/Peter+Spencer+01.jpg" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter Spencer is not giving up, he is taking his case all the way back to the highest court in the land - The High Court.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">[first published March 21 in a Facebook post]</span></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Peter writes: "'I am writing this brief to bring all supporters up to date with developments surrounding the ongoing court proceedings in the struggle for property rights in Australia.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This submission will is supported by a number of documents - being the High Court of Austral</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ia (HCA) - Application for Leave to Appeal and the HCA letter of acknowledgement and instructions.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />I do point out the number of applications made to the HCA for Leave to Appeal are successful at the ratio of only 6% to 8% of the applications. 92 to 94% are rejected and that means for them - there is no other appeal path.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />However, previously an Application to Appeal in this matter ACD 24 2007 was granted that right in appeal from the Federal Court of Australia (FCA) and the judgement of Emmet J and the FCA full bench.<br />This application was successfully heard, and Judgement handed down on September 1 2010.<br />It was significant in that all 7 High Court Judges agreed with our application.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />In this matter, as submitted, we are saying that the FCA did not adhere to the HCA of Australia’s Orders handed down in the September 2010 Judgement. Therefore, there may be a higher potential for the HCA to hear this matter.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />Further, I do point out in making that statement, that is only my opinion - I have no experience in such matters.</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />It must be appreciated; the Respondents have the right to defend the Judgement and oppose our submissions. </span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />Thank you all for hanging in there for the long duration – such a saga, and thank you for your ongoing support."<br />Peter Spencer<br /><br />***<br />The immediate requirement is that Peter Spencer needs $10,000 of donations by about 9 April to keep this Appeal on track.<br /><br />Payment Methods for the Farmers “Property Rights” Fighting Fund. Please remember any payment is appreciated and needed - Property Rights is a fundamental institution of our liberty.<br /><br />Method 1:<br />Crowd Funding Link.<br /><a data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gofundme.com%2Fproperty-rights-high-court-appeal%3Futm&h=ATPuoSA-vySrbkzksRSgyaLhGnqHeHSZr9hypSz908RQW04wYzgkPK2hBzToc7zABmNjiTHDi7-IfoI9xa508moViS2cL2RPpuA41xPpgU1_fvVhTfY" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">www.gofundme.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">property-rights-high-court-</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span>appeal?utm</a><br />Please provide an email to Leslie Hillam with details of any payment - see below.<br /><br />Method 2:<br />Payment using “Pay Pal” facilities.<br />Supporters intending donations find it on Pay Pal web site.<br />This is the procedure –<br />The supporter goes to the PayPal site on the web and accesses the payment indicator advising that they want to pay money.<br />The page will request the code needed to identify who the payment is for. Then type in this ID –<br />ozpond@live.com<br />and that is the access code to the instructions and payment will process thru to the farmers “Property Rights” fighting fund.<br />Please provide an email to Leslie Hillam with details of any payment - see below.<br /><br />Method 3:<br />For direct payments to the “Tower of Hope” Bank Account.<br />The “Tower of Hope” Bank Account details.<br />National Australia Bank.<br />BSP No. 082 535 Account No. 48 464 3925 The account is in the name of the:<br />Peter Spencer - “Tower of Hope” National Australia Bank.<br />Please provide an email to Leslie Hillam with details of any payment - see below.<br /><br />Method 4:<br />For direct payments to the Fighting Funds Bank Account in Dubbo<br />The fighting fund Bank account details are as below:<br />BSB No: 032646 Account No: 494974 The account is in the name of the:<br />“NSW Regional Survival Group Fighting Fund” at Westpac in Dubbo<br /><br />Farmers Fighting Fund Administrator’s Contact details:<br />Lesley Hillam: e-mail address: lesley.hillam@bigpond.com<br />For any assistance with payments regarding all above methods and notice of all payments.'<br /><br />***<br />Please go to the Support Peter Spencer & Australian Farmers Facebook page for a lot more information posted there last night in a 4 part series<br /><br />Part 1 - advice provided by Barrister Peter King to Peter Spencer dated 28 February 2018<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10157258718078047&id=234917523046" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; 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font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">157258924763047&id=2349175</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span>23046</a><br /><br />Part 3 - response letter from the High Court confirming Spencer's application for special leave and setting out the timeline for further submissions<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10157258956508047&id=234917523046" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.facebook.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">permalink.php?story_fbid=10</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">157258956508047&id=2349175</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span>23046</a><br /><br />Part 4 - Peter Spencer's email & links to articles published by Alan Moran and David Evans<br /><br />Peter also writes:<br />"I intend to brief as many farmers as possible, on the judgment, the decision to attend the High Court for “Leave to Appeal” and the reasons.<br />Anyone who can organize meetings - 50 or so farmers and as many meetings in one general area as close together so my visit is productive.<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10157259021058047&id=234917523046" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.facebook.com/</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">permalink.php?story_fbid=10</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">157259021058047&id=2349175</span><wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block; 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THERE IS A BETTER WAY! – in social media capitals denotes
shouting and this is what many Qld farmers and graziers feel like doing, caught out in the midst of
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The people, who provide food for the table of Queenslanders,
all Australians and also contribute to the economy through exports, are feeling
demoralised, denigrated and misunderstood. The explanation given by the
Palaszczuk government for the latest changes to the Vegetation Management Act
(VMA) and the contrived debate in the lead up, is not the reality known to
those who live and work with these rural landscapes. Statistics are used out of
context to create alarm and an imperative to toughen up the VMA. But if
government did care to listen and embark on genuine consultation and two-way
communication with food producers, it would learn that at fault is not what
adjustment is made to the VMA, but the very basis of the VMA is at fault. A
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At the <a href="http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/SDNRAIDC/2018/5VegManagOLAB2018/trns-ph-29Mar2017L.pdf">Longreach
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hearing</a> Justin MacDonnell outlined how the government’s use of vegetation
management as a political football creates fear, encourages what clearing can
be done and is punitive to prudent land managers. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“We need to see vegetation management resolved and removed as a
political football. It is not acceptable for you to trade my family’s future
and the future of people in this room and our viability just so you can attract
some political gain and achieve favourable preference deals by chasing inner
city green votes.” <a href="file:///C:/Users/Dale/Documents/Blog/2018%20April,%20There%20is%20a%20better%20way.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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In the <a href="https://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2018/04/why-bother.html">submission</a>
that I wrote, I never bothered with what provisions were in the Bill but tried
to communicate the frustration of the bush and to leave the prescriptive
approach using the tools of control & coercion to an outcomes approach
using the tools of cooperation, on ground reality and respect.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Such methodology creates distrust, division and resentment. It creates
minimal adherence to an alien constraint to the realities that agricultural
producers live, work and know. The urban politician who make these types of laws
and the public servant who administers the law appear oblivious to how they,
through these legislative instruments, indifference and ignorance, cripple the
farming community and all those other levels of the community reliant on
farmers being able to continue effective and profitable farming.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Dale/Documents/Blog/2018%20April,%20There%20is%20a%20better%20way.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The Palaszczuk government would do well to replicate the
approach taken by Major General Michael Jeffery as The National Soil Advocate
in his report, <a href="http://www.soilsforlife.org.au/announcements/restore-the-soil-prosper-the-nation">Restore
the soil: Prosper the nation</a>. It calls for collaboration and knowledge
sharing. This is a call for a better way we should aspire to of how
environmental considerations are meshed with agricultural production<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The policy will recognise Australia’s soil, water and vegetation as
key national natural strategic assets, better support our 130,000 farmers as
stewards of about 60 percent of the Australian continent, and seek to reconnect
urban Australians with their rural roots through establishing school gardens in
every primary and junior high school through the National Curriculum. The
policy will support long term research directed at priorities identified
through a stocktake of our scientific knowledge of soils and Research
Development and Extension capacity, and where possible encourage regulatory
consistency for farmers.”</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Dale/Documents/Blog/2018%20April,%20There%20is%20a%20better%20way.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a Better way which is not the false different
approach in an <a href="https://www.beefcentral.com/news/opinion/tree-laws-farmers-environmentalists-need-to-work-together-and-leave-the-politicians-out-of-it/">opinion
piece</a> last week where it was proposed that farmers and environmentalists
should bypass Governments and work together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For goodness sake, allowing environmental
non-government organisations (ENGO) have such a large input is why landowners
find themselves in the current untenable situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk to landowners who represented
agricultural interests on government tree clearing consultant/ reference
committees over the years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Negotiations
prior to the introduction of the VMA were marred by the practice of the ENGO’s
engaging landowners to reach a compromise position. The ink was barely dry on
signing off on an agreement and another campaign would launched by the ENGO’s
leading to another round of negotiations. It’s called the ratchet effect – take
up control one click at a time. At the same time the ENGO’s would be trying to
short circuit the negotiations by getting in government’s ear. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For an insight into the
disingenuous, underhanded way that ENGO’s approach negotiation with farmers
read what they say themselves in the document, ‘<a href="http://www.thechangeagency.org/tag/james-whelan/">Rethinking deliberative
governance: dissecting the Queensland landclearing campaign</a>’. Look under
the heading of ‘Rethinking deliberative governance’ on the top of page 7. <a href="file:///C:/Users/Dale/Documents/Blog/2018%20April,%20There%20is%20a%20better%20way.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Queensland Seafood Industry Association (QSIA) has been
forced into a reform process by the Qld government and are <a href="https://qsia.com.au/2018/04/16/questioning-the-role-of-environmental-groups/">questioning
the role of environmental groups</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“</i>Environmental groups pose a significant threat to the long-term
viability of the commercial seafood industry in Queensland. The Queensland
Seafood Industry Association will continue to advocate for the removal of any
environmental group representative on working groups.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The interest of the environment
can be protected by government agencies that have a conservation mandate – the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Department of National Parks,
Sport and Racing. Why then should environmental, special interest groups have a
seat at the policy table with commercial and recreational groups as well
government?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Dale/Documents/Blog/2018%20April,%20There%20is%20a%20better%20way.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Dale/Documents/Blog/2018%20April,%20There%20is%20a%20better%20way.docx#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="mso-endnote-id: edn7;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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WWF has revealed in its <a href="https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/SDNRAIDC/2018/5VegManagOLAB2018/submissions/192.pdf">submission</a>
that beyond the government’s current amendments that WWF wishes to ratchet up
further controls. This includes removing the protections of PMAV mapping;
severely restrict the use of bulldozers to push mulga to feed livestock in
drought and have graziers lop mulga; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
that thinning operations be done selectively with a chainsaw. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This is the organisation that on a number of occasions
called regrowth control, deforestation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now marry this thought with the policy of the
WWF initiated Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) of <a href="https://grsbeef.org/resources/Documents/News%20Releases/Global%20Conference%20Advances%20Beef%20Sustainability_Final.pdf">zero
deforestation</a>. <a href="file:///C:/Users/Dale/Documents/Blog/2018%20April,%20There%20is%20a%20better%20way.docx#_edn8" name="_ednref8" style="mso-endnote-id: edn8;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[viii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The author of the above mentioned opinion piece calling for farmers and
environmentalists to work together, Greg Brown when as President of Cattle
Council Australia tried to take the entire Australian beef supply chain into
membership of GRSB. <br />
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A new approach is needed for environmental law. Without change the ENGO’s will
continue to ratchet up a click at a time tighter controls, just as a python
constricts its victim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Qld ALP
appear addicted to the need of a new calamity scenario at election time to gain
that extra few percentage of votes to get a few candidates over the line. Not
only should the different agricultural sectors unite against this unacceptable
situation but also stand with other primary producers and support QSIA call for
removal of ENGO’s from the policy table.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-10797173649468942022018-04-07T21:31:00.000+10:002018-04-07T21:31:03.284+10:00The Wanton Worship of Woody Weeds By Viv Forbes,<br />
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For millennia Australia’s open forests and treeless plains have supported our
national emblems – the kangaroo and the emu, which in turn sustained
aborigines, eagles and dingos. Australian grasslands also nurtured
now-endangered species such as bustards, quail, pigeons, finches and grass
parrots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nothing stands still in nature. Savannas are forever a battleground between
grassland, scrub and desert. Greens gaze in rapture at the trees but ignore the
valuable grasses beneath their feet – native plants like Mitchell Grass and
Kangaroo Grass and cultivated grasses like wheat, barley, oats, sorghum and
sugar cane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Greens hate grazing animals like cattle and sheep (but not wildebeest!) and,
like trained parrots, repeat the hard-hoof fairy-tale about soil compaction and
erosion. In reality, hoof action breaks crusty soil. A short burst of
concentrated animal impact with hoof cultivation, seed burial, and application
of dung and urine fertilisers does wonders for the long-term health of the
pasture. It is not a question of hard hooves or soft paws - it is a grazing
management question. A healthy pasture needs grasses, herbs, legumes and
periodic grazing animals – shut out the ruminants, or stock heavily and
continuously, and you will get weeds and desert.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Greens favour “Do Nothing Pasture Management”. Along with their bans on
mechanical or chemical control of tree invasions, they try to prevent bushfires
which have for millennia maintained the vigour of the grasslands. To have
healthy pasture requires recycling of nutrients from old dead grass before the
summer rains. This is best achieved by concentrated short-term hoof impact or
by controlled burning (both of which may also kill tree seedlings that are
forever trying to invade the grasslands).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Greens are always nibbling away at grasslands and open forests by demanding
ever more nationalised parks, conservation zones and other green blockades.
Instead of supporting graziers with their productive pastures and grazing
animals they create ever-expanding sterilised un-managed areas which become
havens for weeds like lantana, prickly pear, cactus and wait-a-while and pests
like feral dogs, wild pigs and wild cats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Proposed
new Queensland laws will hinder landowners in harvesting mulga scrub during
drought and controlling invasion of grasslands by woody weeds. These
destructive green bans plus the unjust Kyoto tree-clearing land seizures are
part of the global Green plan to drive farmers and graziers from much of the
land.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The great value of ruminants is their efficiency in converting the vegetation
of poorer grasslands and open forest into edible proteins and fats. ALP/Green
policies will reduce the supply of this truly free-range food and increase our
dependence on feedlot food, which is worse for the environment and our health.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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And for those who believe the greenhouse warming fable, grassland plants remove
the bogey-man (carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere. This carbon collected by
grazing animals ends up in long-term storage in human bodies via meat and other
animal food products. At the end of their life, most human bodies get
sequestered in carbon-based coffins and buried in carbon cemeteries. Greens
should be happy with that, but the plant world will gradually suffer from this
relentless loss of the gas of life from the biosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The bureaucracy of our “Brave New Green World” will use drones, spy cameras and
computer programs to trap and punish any grazier who dares to defend his
grassland from invading trees.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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Instead of tree clearing bans we need to free our land managers for a war on
woody weeds using controlled burning, better grazing management and reversal of
the unjust Kyoto land sterilisation program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Viv Forbes has a degree in Applied
Science, and long experience in soil science, pasture management and breeding
and managing cattle and sheep.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Further Reading:</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<i>Saving the Grasslands with grazing
animals by Alan Savory (well worth watching):</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI</a></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Battle for Our Grasslands:<br />
</span></i><span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/grasslands.pdf"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/grasslands.pdf</span></i></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://clexit.net/2016/11/04/grasslands/">http://clexit.net/2016/11/04/grasslands/</a></span></i><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://carbon-sense.com/2013/02/15/destructive-green-policies/"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://carbon-sense.com/2013/02/15/destructive-green-policies/</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Land seizure under the Kyoto Protocol:<br />
<a href="http://catallaxyfiles.com/2018/02/19/courts-refuse-to-protect-australian-private-property-rights/">http://catallaxyfiles.com/2018/02/19/courts-refuse-to-protect-australian-private-property-rights/</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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What landowners think of the proposed vegetation management bans:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/5259817/vegetation-management-is-choking-everything-out/">http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/5259817/vegetation-management-is-choking-everything-out/</a></span></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.northqueenslandregister.com.au/story/5301521/vegetation-amendments-put-brakes-on-sugarcane-growth/">http://www.northqueenslandregister.com.au/story/5301521/vegetation-amendments-put-brakes-on-sugarcane-growth/</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ruralweekly.com.au/news/warning-about-consumer-access-to-queensland-produc/3372503/">https://www.ruralweekly.com.au/news/warning-about-consumer-access-to-queensland-produc/3372503/</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-03-17/graziers-protest-palaszczuk-changes-vegetation-management-laws/9556522">http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-03-17/graziers-protest-palaszczuk-changes-vegetation-management-laws/9556522</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/were-getting-flogged-500-cq-protesters-against-law/3372212/#/1">https://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/were-getting-flogged-500-cq-protesters-against-law/3372212/#/1</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/5310680/your-speakers-your-voices-in-vegetation-management-debate/">http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/5310680/your-speakers-your-voices-in-vegetation-management-debate/</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/farmers-know-best-how-to-clear-their-own-land/news-story/13e45fa973ddb5092861c2734867cb02">https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/farmers-know-best-how-to-clear-their-own-land/news-story/13e45fa973ddb5092861c2734867cb02</a></span></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-40709304752356190582018-04-05T21:24:00.000+10:002018-04-05T21:37:34.565+10:00Why Bother? <br />
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Hell bent on making changes to the Vegetation Management
Act, the Qld ALP Palaszczuk government is showing disregard to the hands-on
knowledge of farming families. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t
appear to be listening, so why bother writing a submission. Reluctantly, after a number of people made the request, I sat down at my keyboard the eve submissions closed and went to
write a one pager to basically say F U. However something a little more
positive emerged, with a little more optimism, that perhaps, just maybe sometime
in the dim distant future that the collective light bulb will go off, bringing a
new dawn of a better way of working together. The cynic in me doesn’t give it
much hope – anyway this is my submission.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5axr4uRP-31ppuizSeEpTXOQHQn53aGYi6zNmtu0nP8pKZzPZqDMatPpPxpmzaWuMix-agj4gb_bHBzzoThgJV2-LmYOk_x7lUdvYeeB7UrIB4-VxBftItvE66HT1bFV9XLbYaqmcw/s1600/landscape%252C+DOE%252C+C+of+Australia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1600" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip5axr4uRP-31ppuizSeEpTXOQHQn53aGYi6zNmtu0nP8pKZzPZqDMatPpPxpmzaWuMix-agj4gb_bHBzzoThgJV2-LmYOk_x7lUdvYeeB7UrIB4-VxBftItvE66HT1bFV9XLbYaqmcw/s640/landscape%252C+DOE%252C+C+of+Australia.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The very premise of the Vegetation Management Act (VMA)
is at fault to the point that it is not amendments that should be under
consideration but a journey to replacement legislation that aims to achieve
genuine consultation with the people most subject to the current Act’s apparent
tyranny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Regional Vegetation Management Plans (RVMP’s)
was the last time there was genuine consultation and two-way communication between
government and rural landowners. This process was designed to initiate a
cooperative and consultative approach on how to best to manage the balance of
vegetation management and farming. As history has shown, common sense did not
prevail and these were discarded in act of duplicity by the then Premier and
government and the VMA introduced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The approach taken in the VMA was also repeated in
changes across the board to how government interacted with agricultural
producers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The core of the VMA champions
coercion and discards cooperation. It saw the change of agency staff working
with farmers in an atmosphere of goodwill and mutual respect to that of
policing, prosecution and distrust. Previous important practical and
common-sense “in the field conservation measures” were abandoned to remote,
austere and antagonistic direction based on a political imperative and bending
to the whims of the green movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Such methodology creates distrust, division and
resentment. It creates minimal adherence to an alien constraint to the
realities that agricultural producers live, work and know. Loss of hope
prevails to a level where farming families see no future for the young adults to
come back to the farm and continue with agriculture as a career path. The urban
politician who make these types of laws and the public servant who administers
the law appear oblivious to how they, through these legislative instruments,
indifference and ignorance, cripple the farming community and all those other
levels of the community reliant on farmers being able to continue effective and
profitable farming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some of us have been in the debate about vegetation
management for over three decades now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even though we work, live in and have a long intimate relationship with
the land, there is a sense of being treated as only a minor stakeholder whose
views are consistently overridden by more powerful interests. It has been a
degrading and humiliating experience being used as a political yo-yo during the
many changes over the years to the VMA and legislation of its ilk. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One is left more than just a little cynical on why
should we continue to play the game of perpetual submission writing, detailing
a view on each provision being amended. We, the real custodians of the land,
are left with the feeling of being ignored and treated with contempt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There are those like myself who absorbed the <u>original
</u>ethos of the Landcare movement when it first emerged. We, who are
interested in practical, hands-on conservation, who know there is a beneficial
tree/ grass relationship aiding both environmental and agriculture production
criteria, who understand each bio-region is very different and cannot be
administered by State-wide blanket legislation, we who do NOT want to knock
down every tree but know that vegetation management can be as beneficial to
farming as it is to the environment. Simply put, tree clearing itself is not
bad, rather it’s a matter of where and how development is conducted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are those of us who live assuredly in a role
of both the steward for our patch of land and as a provider of food for our
society. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We could be prevailed upon to work together to a
better legislative future, but until there is genuine demonstrated pathway of goodwill,
respect, empathy, understanding and certainty of agreed negotiations be fully
honoured, why should we bother? There needs to be a reversal of the current near
certainty that we will be completely ignored - Ignored in favour of green groups
who have no interest, or knowledge, in the successful integration of farming
development and the environment. <br />
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This current Bill should be voted down for it ambiguous provisions, the
possibility of increasing oppressive outcome, the continued enlarging upon
flawed negative counterproductive laws and a total disregard for the opinions
of the real</span> stewards of the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-81414601813642745672016-10-29T20:10:00.001+10:002016-10-29T20:13:42.389+10:00The Battle for our Grasslands and Livestock <div style="text-align: center;">
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and arable land cover just 10% of Earth’s surface but (with the oceans) they
produce all of our food and fibre. But the productivity and health of our
grasslands, farms and livestock are under threat from disproportionate global warming alarmism
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disputed theories that claim that bodily emissions from farm animals will cause
dangerous global warming.</span></div>
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Parliament in Wellington waving placards and banners saying “STOP THE FART TAX”.
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ruminants
such as sheep, cattle and goats cannot make long-term additions to the gases in
the atmosphere - they just recycle atmospheric carbon and nitrogen nutrients in
a cycle-of-life that has operated for millennia.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Grazing ruminant animals with their emission products have always been part of
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Many otherwise genuine environmentalists are assisting the destruction of
grasslands with their native pastures and endangered grass birds. Blinded by
their love for the trees, they neglect the grasses, legumes, herbs and
livestock that provide their food. In Australia they pass laws to protect weedy
eucalypts invading the grasslands but ignore the valuable and declining
Mitchell grass that once dominated Australia’s treeless plains.</span></div>
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fire-prone government reserves and pest havens.</span></div>
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We have the modern methane madness. Mobs of grazing ruminants have been
roaming the grasslands since cave-man days. Methane has also been seeping from
marshes, bubbling out of oceans, leaking from coal seams and oil seeps and
being released in huge quantities from volcanoes. So what more can a few
domestic cows and sheep do to affect this? Methane from domestic ruminants is a
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It is a foolish and costly fantasy to believe that Earth’s climate can be
controlled by passing laws, imposing taxes, attempting to manipulate the bodily
emissions of farm animals or trying to prevent farmers from clearing woody
weeds invading their pastures</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-89830704000143404052016-05-27T21:27:00.000+10:002016-05-27T21:27:07.273+10:00Great Barrier Reef - Dive Magazine with photos<h5 class="_5pbw" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}" id="js_1">
<span class="fwn fcg"><span class="fcg"><span class="fwb">This has been put on Facebook this evening. </span></span></span></h5>
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<span class="fwn fcg"><span class="fcg"><span class="fwb">It is worth sharing with all the negativity that is going around by people with some vested interest in telling lies about the Great Barrier Reef.</span></span></span></h5>
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My opinion piece on CORAL BLEACHING ON THE GBR is out! The June edition of Dive Log is fantastic with lots of good news and glorious underwater photographs from contributing divers.<br />
This is the longest story ever published in Dive Log, but don't let that put you off, it is all relevant and readable - and graced with photos - not only from me this time but also from photo-pro Laurence Buckingham - who dived the GBR one month after I did this year. Thanks Laurence! And thanks to friends and colleagues who have passed on their observations to me. <br />
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Beverley Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809505982188738623noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-20137148277039481182016-03-03T13:10:00.000+10:002016-03-03T13:10:04.176+10:00Has anyone seen this news item from the Queensland Country Life dated 2nd March. <br />
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It was put on facebook by Michael Trout, ex LNP state member of parliament, on his page. These are his words:<br />
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"If Tradd has her way we will be importing food to Qld. What a sad State of affairs. The Unions get ALP elected then the minority Green groups run the agenda. What is wrong with common sense. Mr Baker is trying to protect his land from fires. I wonder how many people in parliament have fought bushfires. This is a disgrace and a abuse of power."<br />
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<a href="http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/3763351/eidsvold-vegetation-case-heads-into-fourth-week/?cs=4785">http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/3763351/eidsvold-vegetation-case-heads-into-fourth-week/?cs=4785</a><br />
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Anyone with any brains knows that property owners should be making fire breaks to protect the land and grass and trees.<br />
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What on earth is wrong with these Green Groups that obviously know nothing about the land and how to protect it?Beverley Prescotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14809505982188738623noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-5301050678333403642015-11-20T19:31:00.001+10:002015-11-20T19:31:34.060+10:00Mining open slather on underground water continues <div style="text-align: center;">
by George Houen, Landholder Services Pty Ltd</div>
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Miners will get to keep the<a href="http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/3367934/water-reforms-suck-resources-dry/" target="_blank"><b> Newman government’s gift </b></a>of open slather on groundwater, plus the waiving of both the water licence requirement and the obligation to justify the volume of water they extract - and <u>they will be able to use or dispose of the water any way they wish including by evaporation</u>, which for obvious environmental reasons was banned in coal seam gas fields years ago.</div>
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<br />At least miners who dewater will, for the first time, be subject to Chapter 3 of the Water Act which imposes a <a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-water-act_22.html" target="_blank"><b>make good obligation</b></a> and requires underground water impact reports. Successive governments have assured bore owners that if there is bore damage from dewatering the Chapter 3 make good scheme will protect them – that is false and when the scheme is called upon for a contested m<u>ake good scheme the affected owners will find it is tragically flawed.</u></div>
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Natural Resources and Mines <a href="http://statements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2015/11/10/water-laws-protect-creeks-rivers-and-farmers-rights" target="_blank"><b>Minister Anthony Lynham announced</b></a> on 10th November which parts of the previous governments water amendments he intends to repeal or amend. But open slather for miners stays – and after consultation with the Environment Minister and with stakeholders as to how it will operate it will be proclaimed into force, including for existing mines, on a date to be agreed.</div>
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<br />Provided a mining lease and an environmental authority have been granted, unlimited dewatering is OK, <u>even in a worst-case situation where dewatering is virtually certain to damage or destroy water bores </u>as well as groundwater dependent flora or fauna.</div>
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<br />Under present laws, groundwater impacts are a major factor in any environmental impact assessment for mining - often giving rise to objections supported by high-level expert evidence in the<a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms_20.html" target="_blank"><b> Land Court’s objections hearings. </b></a>The Court directs any resulting recommendations on groundwater to the Environment Minister for consideration in deciding the environmental authority application.</div>
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<br /><u>But the Court under present laws doesn’t have jurisdiction to make recommendations about the licence for dewatering</u> which - until proclamation of the change - is under the separate jurisdiction of Natural Resources and Mines. This segregation is artificial and should have been removed. However, under the Water Act an interested person who disputes grant of a water licence can request internal review of the decision and can also appeal to the Land Court about it.</div>
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<br />Allowing dewatering without a water licence doesn’t alter the Environmental Protection Act assessment process for the proposed mine, nor does it alter the Land Court’s role as the independent assessor which makes recommendations to the Minister. Both of those phases are designed to assess and test the evidence on overall environmental impact (including impacts on groundwater and water users) and applications for environmental authority.</div>
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<br />In spite of the miners gaining open slather dewatering, the current process of overall environmental assessment including the impacts on groundwater resources and on users of water bores, with a right for the public to object and be heard in the Land Court, will continue.</div>
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<br /><u>This tussle over the Newman government’s amendments gave Minister Lynham a golden opportunity to remove artificial demarcation and integrate the approval of dewatering with the well-established environmental assessment system – <b>he let it slip</b></u>. Now I expect that, true to form, mining company lawyers will use the advent of open slather dewatering and abolition of the requirement for water licenses to argue that objections about groundwater be no longer permitted.</div>
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<b>RELATED PREVIOUS PUBLISHED ARTICLES</b></div>
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<a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms_20.html" target="_blank">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 1 - Deregulation of the Dewatering of Mines </a></h3>
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<a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-water-act.html" target="_blank">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 2 - Uncoordinated Approval System </a></h3>
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<a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-water-act_22.html" target="_blank">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 3, Make Good </a></h3>
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<a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-water-act_25.html" target="_blank">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 4 - Stream diversions</a>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-66513004736068871842015-11-07T23:46:00.000+10:002015-11-08T06:44:19.563+10:00PRA: Disadvantage and Discernment <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Condensed from the Chairman’s report at Property Rights Australia
conference August 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">STAND YOUR GROUND!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This was the rally cry, the motto that former PRA chairman
John Purcell came up with a number of years back. The times suited it as there
was a wave after wave of the theft of property rights and you lived in
expectation of the super wave at <a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/election-time-takings.html" target="_blank">every election cycle.</a> Possibly life for PRA
was a little simpler back in the ALP Beattie government years leading into the
handover to Peter Beattie’s deputy Anna Bligh. The enemy was environmentalists
and appeasement to them by government for cheap political gain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After lecturing landowners for many years about the
precautionary principle the Bligh government vigorously told landowners that
they had no choice but to accept another business called coal seam gas laid
over their properties. This new business was allowed to operate under an
adaptive management principle. A term the then PRA chairman <a href="http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/news/agriculture/agribusiness/general-news/landholders-lose-out-in-mining-property-dilemma/2033793.aspx?storypage=0" target="_blank">Ron Bahnisch called, “oxymoronic.”</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/alternative-to-precautionary-principle.html" target="_blank">The precautionary principle</a> over the years has suffered
misuse by some (not all) in the opposition to any new development by taking too
far an endless litany of “what ifs.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sustainability
is a word that can be problematic due to it being used in contexts that are not
measurable; definitions designed to suit an outcome and the goalposts are able
to be shifted at whim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adaptive
management was an absolute joke; the admission that we know that there will be
problems, we don’t know the solutions but somehow we will work it out as we go
along. It was the height of hypocrisy that same government that bashed landowners
over the head for so long with a big environmental stick could turn around so
quickly and direct departmental staff in the blinkered support of both mining,
CSG and supporting infrastructure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">PRA is developing a policy document called the <a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/pra-qld-election-media-release-no.html" target="_blank">No Disadvantage Principle</a>. The disregard of people, their ability to make an
income from their property, amenity of life, impacts that cause diminution of
value, future external liabilities left to the landowner and reduced future use
of the land – all these issues have continued on many fronts. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">PRA calls on government to apply a No Disadvantage Principle
test to all new legislation and policies that impact Landowners, particularly
in relation to resource and environment impacts. If a community, industry or
even an individual is placed at a disadvantage the policy or legislation should
be amended and if this is not possible those affected should be fully
compensated. No one should be left as collateral damage to what is thought to
be at the time, “the greater good.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Such a clear and unequivocal legislated rule would still
allow economic development including mining and petroleum projects to operate,
to generate wealth and jobs for the State and allow Government to legislate on
environmental concerns for the public good but there would no longer be
financially crippled victims sacrificed to achieve the desired goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">***** <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The polarising of the public debate in the area of mining
and coal seam gas has proved very frustrating in recent years. It has suited
the big players to throw insults at radical environmentalists on the one hand
with a return taunt of “greedy multinational miners” which is played out in the
metropolitan media. The debate may be city based but the physical location of
projects is forgotten, on or near to rural property owners who on the most part
are agricultural producers. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Let’s be clear PRA is no way anti mining. Resources are an
important part of the economy. It has provided our society with the means to
enjoy the standard of living we do today. Likely to be replaced as we advance
into the future but we are dependent on mining for energy needs. What is often
overlooked is the high end uses of oil & even coal for products that will
ultimately prove far more valuable to us than burning up in an internal
combustion engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But make no mistake PRA will speak out against resource
company’s actions and also against <a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/pra-denied-rights-to-landowners-not-be.html" target="_blank">environmental organisations</a> when the property
owner’s rights are not respected. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Recent years has seen former adversaries saying very similar
things about the coal seam gas invasion onto our properties. We may not be on
the same path but we often find ourselves running a <a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/strength-in-diversity_28.html" target="_blank">parallel path</a>. This is
occurring at the same time of increasing polarisation of the public debate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In this new atmosphere PRA has to be very discerning. It is
our role to stand up for the rights of landowners, not to make government
happy, no matter its colour. PRA is by constitution apolitical. If there is an
abuse of landowner rights we must speak up. We have witnessed CSG & some
(not all) coal companies throw their weight around in callous disregard to the
landowner and we have seen <a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/pra-regional-queensland-deserves-better.html" target="_blank">government make legislative changes</a> that shifted
unbalance in favour of resources blatantly further to their favour. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87V5d5XOM5MOrCBb8exfoA30SU8a5UAaUok49TRuahv7mawVVnPyF6ABP5GQexKwB_Q-vsu40LnVWwlGZ4W3y8S0AXBBaxCmxso3MGoSdrMZIxJiax7x4k_nsb-tM0yGRIOQJkYOmKg/s1600/discerment+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh87V5d5XOM5MOrCBb8exfoA30SU8a5UAaUok49TRuahv7mawVVnPyF6ABP5GQexKwB_Q-vsu40LnVWwlGZ4W3y8S0AXBBaxCmxso3MGoSdrMZIxJiax7x4k_nsb-tM0yGRIOQJkYOmKg/s1600/discerment+01.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A steady hand & a discerning mind is needed. I see
others in frustration shift to the thinking of the means justifies the end; it
never does. One needs to be discerning about environmental groups who appear
(& largely are) on the same page about CSG, but inevitably other agendas
are crept in and promoted. There is also the increasing tiresome chatter of the
eco-pessimist that from all developments the worst calamity is automatic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Then we have another phenomenon to resist from those without
direct connection to CSG localities where they assume because those “dam
greenies” are saying something that it is automatically wrong and the CSG
industry therefore are virtuous. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">While it is certainly easy to find many examples of the
extreme end of the environmental movement in their ‘the end justifies the
means’ approach using alarmism, misinformation and even sabotage, it is
simplistic to assume that everyone interested in environmental issues are
deluded. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Those of us who are interested into the enquiry into the
truth of a situation should resist the weakness that requires one to retreat to
known absolutes and not allow new events to challenge one’s thinking. Sometime
there are circumstances where you end up on a parallel course to others that
are normally in opposition; it appears that some are so insecure in their own
convictions that they create an artificial world of “East is East, and West is
West, and never the twain shall meet”. “<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">****** <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In conclusion, the call for discernment is for us, Property
Rights Australia, its members and the board to make evidence based decisions
and not be afraid to give voice to them no matter the company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The call of recognising disadvantage is to government that
by adopting the No Disadvantage Principle that no one is left as road kill on
the highway of the common good.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-38902855633943093212015-05-28T01:07:00.000+10:002015-05-28T01:12:11.625+10:00PRA: Landowner denied rights must not be repeated<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced - <a href="http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/call-equal-rights-landholders-dealing-miners/2511983/" target="_blank">The Chronicle</a> </td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Premier Palaszczuk’s election campaign launch speech promise</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> to
reinstate the repealed Vegetation Management Act (VMA) could almost be forgiven
as being ill informed but now after 100 days in office for the Premier to
outline it as a priority task to be achieved is highly alarming. In a letter to
the Minister for Natural Resources & Mines Anthony Lynham, the Premier gave
the direction to,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <b><i>"Re-instate the
vegetation protection laws repealed by the previous government to reduce the
clearing of native vegetation”</i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Property Rights Australia is most concerned that senior members of
the Palaszczuk government, including the Premier herself, have failed to grasp
that the VMA was not repealed but amended</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
and amended modestly at that. Unlike the over the top approach taken in
resource legislation, the Newman government amendments to the VMA were restrained,
responsible and restored basic tenets of our legal system; civil rights that
the wider community take for granted but had been denied to landowners. There
have been many column inches devoted to the horror of the reversal of the onus
of proof under the so-called “bikie laws”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
including by the Labor party.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
Qld was the first jurisdiction in Australia to reverse the onus of proof</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
and it happened under the Beattie Labor government’s Vegetation Management Act.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We expect this type of attack on the Justice
system not to be repeated</span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The current government should be wary of pressure by various
“green groups” which are continually being proved to be lacking in substance or
in touch with real situations impacting real people in Queensland at this time.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Activists with an environmental agenda
have lost no time in getting in the governments ear with the incorrect notion
that the VMA had been repealed and landclearing is again out of control. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Published articles by a group of academics
calling themselves “concerned scientists”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
show little scientific integrity, deceptive selection of the facts and
exaggerated conclusions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WWF in its
latest Living Forests report</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
devote a whole chapter with the use of “projections” to forecast a resulting
deforestation from changes to environment legislation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WWF believes that your brigalow suckers are “critically
important” and without a word about compensation of production loss to the
landowner states the desire to see brigalow regrowth to mature for 30 years to
provide wildlife habitat. Typically Dr Tim Seelig, Queensland Campaign Manager
for the Wilderness Society makes gross exaggerations,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">”The LNP substantially weakened land clearing
controls in Queensland, resulting in a return to large scale clearing and an
impending tree clearing crisis on a massive scale.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In responding to questions in the Queensland parliament on May 13
from the Member for Warrego Ann Leahy, Dr Lynham said that,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> “we
have no plans to change those specific portions such as the self-assessment
criteria.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PRA believes to revert back
to the old arrangements of a deadly slow time frame to obtain permits to
harvest the self-regenerating acacia mulga crucial for drought fodder would
defy logic.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With 80% of Queensland in drought it is most likely graziers
concerned for the welfare of their livestock; feeding mulga will most likely be
the greatest contributor to any increase in the area of land clearing.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
Mulga is well known for its ability to re-establish itself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Gidgee trees are notorious for encroaching " src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5137454-3x2-700x467.jpg" height="266" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Gidgee trees are notorious for encroaching " width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced ABC Rural - <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-05/new-tree-clearing-laws/5137388" target="_blank">New tree clearing laws in Queensland</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Going by where the most
fervour of the radical environmentalist is directed, provision of clearing for
high-value agriculture</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[14]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
is the area most at risk for attention by the Palaszczuk government. Tim Seelig
in his dedicated vehemence says,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[15]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The LNP approved at least five massive land
clearing projects in northern Queensland, including at Olive Vale. Those five
projects total 113,000 hectares. Other approvals include almost 60,000 hectares
at Strathmore Station in the Gulf Country.”</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To provide some perspective Qld is a large state covering 1,727,000
square kilometres with over 200 national parks covering 6.5 million hectares.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[16]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most agricultural production essential to feed
our population by necessity occurs off land that is thinned of its vegetation
or a large percentage cleared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Land has
been set aside for different purposes and its time environmentalists reserve
full conservation management to National Parks only and don’t transfer these
expectations to agricultural production systems. The introduction of the VMA
caught large tracts of north Qld under developed with landowners uncompensated
for declining production. </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Recently the federal member of Leichhardt, Warren Entsch, gave
some perspective of the clearing being undertaken at Olive Vale calling
activists claims, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“emotional clap-trap.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[17]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr Entsch owned Olive Vale up to the early
2000’s said that,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“He believed the area to be cleared – which
represents less than 10 per cent of the station – was mostly open country with
few trees.</span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“There’s not a lot of agricultural opportunities
in Cape York, but those areas that have been identified through the scientific
process are areas where we should be going, giving an economic opportunity for
people living in the area,’’</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It is rather inconvenient for the environmental activists the recent
release of the international scientific paper,</span> </span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘Recent reversal in loss of
global terrestrial biomass’</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[18]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that showed vegetation in Australia has
actually increased with the encroachment of trees into grassland a key factor.
Dr Bill Burrows in a 2013 paper, “Bushland at risk of continued tree and shrub
thickening in Queensland” wrote,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[19]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[20]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Many other land types were, and remain, subject
to increased “thickening” of the over-storey or sub-canopy tree and shrub
cover, or both, over time. Likewise trees are actively encroaching on some
native grasslands . Examples of this changing structure and composition of the
vegetation include mulga thickening in country east of the Warrego River,
gidgee encroachment onto Mitchell grasslands , increased eucalypt cover in the
Desert Uplands and Central Highlands/Burdekin Catchment<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and tea tree invasion of grasslands in Cape
York. Even National Parks and reserves abutting grazing land are subject to
ongoing tree thickening e.g. the disappearing grassy balds of the Bunya
Mountains, acacias invading grasslands on Moorinya N.P. and rainforest invading
wet sclerophyll forest in the wet tropics.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rural Queensland does not need a repeat of the full extent of the poor
archaic Beattie Labor government legislation that was enforced in a vindictive,
punitive manner.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[21]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[22]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As stated by Premier Palaszczuk in her directive to Dr Lynham,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[23]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> “it
is important to achive the best outcomes for Queenslanders” and “to make all
decisions and actions in the public interest”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To reverse the current strict guidelines already in place for tree
clearing in Queensland will not deliver the best outcomes for Queenslanders and
as seen in the past, replacing cooperation with coercion and heavy-handed
administration creates more problems and is not effective or productive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Another downgrade in crop yield is possible" src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/1143174-3x2-700x467.jpg" height="426" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Another downgrade in crop yield is possible" width="640" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced ABC Rural - <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-23/major-political-parties-talk-big-farming-issues-ahead-election/6043620" target="_blank">the hot issues as Queensland</a> </td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">PRA has been aware and is highly concerned that in recent months
of DNR&M staff appear to have been given directives to find someone to hold
up as an errant example to what would appear to be an excuse to review the
current tree clearing legislation to appease election promises made to green
groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legal firm Ferrier & Co
principle Tom Marland recently made the statement based on evidence from a
number of clients who have been subjected to formal inspections last month
that,</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/Media%20Releases/2015%20May%2025%20response%20reinstate%20full%20VMA.docx" name="_ftnref24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[24]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“it was clear from the imagery and mapping that
DNRM were not inspecting irregularities but were inspecting properties to
support prosecutions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“DNRM have sufficient information to determine
whether charges should be laid. The purpose to inspect and speak with
landholders is to falsely obtain a confession or some form of omission of
guilt.”</span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div>
<span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">PRA strongly advises landowners that if departmental staff
approaches them on a land clearing matter to immediately seek legal advice. In
these circumstances usual country hospitality and openness should not apply.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced <a href="http://www.energydigital.com/greentech/2046/Hydrogen:-the-Future-of-Fuel" target="_blank">[here] </a></td></tr>
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<br />
by Viv Forbes <br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The same people who promoted intermittent energy
(wind and solar) have trumped that with their latest green energy fad –
hydrogen fuel.<br />
<br />
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe; it fuels the sun and is
the third most common element on Earth. But it is so reactive that it is seldom
found in its elemental state - it combines strongly with other elements such as
oxygen to form water or with carbon to form methane. It is an essential
component in all acids, alkalis, hydro-carbons and organic materials.<br />
<br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">To extract hydrogen from natural compounds such as water, methane or coal
requires very large inputs of energy. Most commonly hydrogen is produced from
methane gas using heat and steam, or by electrolysis of water using large
quantities of electricity. <br />
<br />
Hydrogen can be used to power rockets, cars and engines of all types. However
the energy used to produce the hydrogen can never be fully recovered from the
energy in the hydrogen. It is thus NOT a source of energy – it is merely a
storehouse for energy - a battery.<br />
<br />
It is possible to produce hydrogen from water using electricity from nuclear or
hydro-carbon fuels, or even intermittent green energy. The hydrogen gas could
then be transported to cities as a clean energy source for cars, thus reducing
pollution from petrol/diesel vehicles. <br />
<br />
But hydrogen is a very dangerous gas. It has tiny lightweight molecules which
have low energy density and are difficult to compress, contain and store. It
also forms an explosive mixture with air. To provide a network of hydrogen
car-fuelling stations, or to suggest hydrogen as a domestic gas, is inviting
explosive disasters in the suburbs – (imagine the Health and Safety
regulations!)<br />
<br />
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Inviting
explosive disasters in the suburbs?<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MMB2VR0087w"><u><span style="color: blue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MMB2VR0087w</span></u></a><br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br />
Even the impractical electric cars have benefits compared to the hydrogen car.
Electricity is safer and the supply network is easier and essentially in place.
Moreover, electric cars do not reduce the oxygen content of city air - every
tonne of hydrogen fuel consumes eight tonnes of oxygen to produce nine tonnes
of water vapour. So instead of urban smog, we may get urban fog.<br />
<br />
And to suggest that hydrogen can provide base-load power tops all green energy
idiocy.<br />
<br />
Hydrogen is a Net-Negative Energy Option.<br />
<br />
Viv Forbes, <br />
Rosewood<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Qld<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Australia<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><a href="mailto:forbes@carbon-sense.com"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u>forbes@carbon-sense.com</u></span></a></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-77573285293761068452015-04-05T18:26:00.000+10:002015-04-05T18:55:54.232+10:00Activism drives land clearing exaggeration <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mulga woodlands, photo sourced <strong><a href="https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/regrowth-guides/mulga-description/" target="_blank">[here]</a></strong> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/news/agriculture/general/healthcare/drought-drives-mulga-hunger/2724451.aspx?storypage=0"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">‘Drought drives mulga hunger</span></b><span style="color: blue;">’</span></a>, an article
published late February in the Queensland Country Life warned of extremist
environmental groups using the increased tree clearing rates in the Statewide
Landcover and Trees Study (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/vegetation/mapping/slats/"><span style="color: blue;">SLATS</span></a></b>)
report due in August to pressure the Palaszczuk Government to introduce new
restrictions on vegetation management. We didn’t have to wait that long as in
late March a group of “concerned scientists” had the opinion article published,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://theconversation.com/land-clearing-in-queensland-triples-after-policy-ping-pong-38279"><span style="color: blue;">‘Land
clearing in Queensland triples after policy ping pong’</span></a></b> published on The
Conversation web site,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that used the QCL
article dishonestly as they omitted the reasons given for the increased rates. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To wax lyrically about Queensland’s
woodland and forests being lost is deceptive when there is no breakdown yet
available between remnant and non-remnant vegetation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">No mention was made of
the largest contributor because of drought,</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">with 80% of Qld drought declared, the feeding of
the regenerating acacia, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/plants-animals/regrowth-guides/mulga-description/"><span style="color: blue;">mulga</span></a></b>,
as invaluable fodder to livestock. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The coal seam gas industry has made a
contribution </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">with the
construction of </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">three export pipelines that take the gas to the port of Gladstone, 2 of
which are around the 540 km’s in length and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AeWYwBreEY"><span style="color: blue;">extensive
infrastructure</span></a></b> including the clearing for gas wells, in field
pipelines, very large water storages, compressor stations and water treatment
plants. Other contributing factors include mine sites and urban encroachment.
This did not fit the environmental paradigm as the article falsely claimed that
the Vegetation Management Act had been rapidly watered down by the Newman
government bringing back broadacre land clearing for agriculture.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To the contrary the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/pra-qld-reforms-to-vegetation.html"><span style="color: blue;">Newman
government amendments</span></a></b> were modest including the restoration of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.samuelgriffith.org.au/papers/html/volume17/v17chap2.html"><span style="color: blue;">basic
tenets of our legal system</span></a></b>, civil rights that the wider community take
for granted but were denied to landowners under the Vegetation management
Act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The clearing of remnant vegetation
remains extremely restricted. The “concerned scientists” berate the removal of
high value regrowth from the Act which is a nonsense invented by
environmentalists and ignores that their high value regrowth is encroaching on
high value pastures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the research
report, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.iflscience.com/environment/despite-decades-deforestation-earth-getting-greener"><span style="color: blue;">‘Recent
reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass’</span></a></b>, published on March 30
2015, vegetation in Australia has actually increased with the encroachment of
trees into grassland a key factor. The report states:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>“We also found unexpectedly large vegetation
increases in savannas and shrublands of Australia, Africa, and South America.
Previous analyses have focused on closed forests and did not measure this
increase.</strong></span></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>On average, Australia is
“greener” today than it was two decades ago. This is despite ongoing land
clearing, urbanisation and the recent droughts in some parts of the country”</strong></span></span></i></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mean annual change in vegetation biomass between 1993 and 2012. Blue represents an increase; red a decrease. <br />
Image modified from Liu et al., 2015. image sourced <strong><a href="http://www.iflscience.com/environment/despite-decades-deforestation-earth-getting-greener" target="_blank">[here]</a></strong></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The “concerned scientists” article,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">‘Land clearing in
Queensland triples after policy ping pong’, is alarmist and attempts to make
very broad associations to pull at the heart strings. For example:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><em>“There are 778 species
listed as “Vulnerable” or “Endangered” in Queensland. Loss of habitat is a
major threat to most of them. In addition, 45% of Queensland’s ecosystems are
threatened because of land clearing”<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The opinion article fails to give any data
at all that any clearing has been allowed where there is endangered fauna and
flora.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also pulls out a favourite
trump card of the environmentalist of a calamity about to fall upon cute and
cuddly, in this case the koala, with no substantiated specific data in direct
correlation to the projected increase in SLATS figures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
core proposition by the “concerned scientists” and where they are seeking
political action is:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“But in 2012, a newly elected Liberal-National
government rapidly set about watering down many aspects of environmental
legislation. The Vegetation Management Framework Amendment Act 2013 brought
back broadscale land clearing for agriculture, and the protections for
high-value regrowth on freehold and indigenous land were removed.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Again this can clearly be demonstrated as
an exaggeration. The Newman government elected in early 2012 did not bring its
first amendment to the Vegetation management Act until May 2013. Hardly
rapidly! Far from a complete “watering down” of the Act, the amendments in May and
December 2013 were in the scale of things modest and most certainly
necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amongst the amendments was
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/pra-bushland-at-risk-part-2.html"><span style="color: blue;">restoration
of civil rights</span></a></b> denied to landowners under the Vegetation management
Act and improvements were made to how the Act worked such as the application
for fodder harvesting of mulga which retained a code of how drought feeding to
staving livestock was to be conducted. Also the introduction of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/land/vegetation/codes/"><span style="color: blue;">guidelines</span></a></b>
for vegetation thinning to counter the environmental and production problem of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/pra-bushland-at-risk-part-1.html"><span style="color: blue;">thickening</span></a></b>
as authenticated by a lifetimes work by internationally renowned woodland
scientist Dr Bill Burrows. The term high value regrowth was always without
foundation and was rightly removed. This is after all land that had been
cleared and is being maintained for agricultural production. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The article recites the so-called “litany”
of perceived problems of land clearing as if they are automatic in every
instance and without background which points out instances where improved grass
cover from clearing actually decreases erosion and improves water quality but
that does not fit within the environmental paradigm. There is not much science
to this article but much environmental activism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Most agricultural land clearing is
undertaken on land that had been cleared once before. The fact is that most
agricultural production essential to feed our population by necessity occurs
off land that is thinned of its vegetation or a large percentage cleared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Land has been set aside for different
purposes and its time environmentalists reserve full conservation management to
National Parks only and don’t transfer these expectations to agricultural
production systems.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">"Should the following recommendations be rejected or even
watered down, the committee fears that this existing goodwill, and
with it efforts to provide a viable structure for producers, will
rapidly diminish."</span> <a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8708428768586378687#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> (</b>
my emphasis-Report
of Senate Inquiry into grassfed levies)</span></i></div>
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<strong>Grassfed Cattle Levies Inquiry-Where to Now</strong></div>
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by Joanne Rea</div>
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The Senate Inquiry
into grassfed levies was completed and reported on by early September
2014. So far only two of seven recommendations have been discussed
and an outcome presented to the Minister. All
seven recommendations can be
found <a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Rural_and_Regional_Affairs_and_Transport/Beef_levies/~/media/Committees/rrat_ctte/beef_levies/b01.pdf"><strong>here.</strong></a></div>
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Australian Meat Producers Group and Concerned Cattle Producers (AMPG/CCP) and Australian Beef Association (ABA) have publicly thrown their support behind all seven recommendations.
Our lead cattle production policy body, CCA, have not made any public
commitments either in favour of or rejecting recommendations three to
seven</div>
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There are claims
that proponents of change who are in favour of the seven Senate
recommendations are just the “rant” of a vocal minority.</div>
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The Senate
submissions and hearings themselves give the lie to these claims. The
list of genuine deficiencies in our current red meat industry
structures, as made by practising grassfed cattle producers was
eerily similar across the country. This was backed up by public
hearings in all states.</div>
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Almost 200 people or
organisations made submissions with most pointing out intransigent
problems with the current system. Many who were and still are in deep
drought or debt were under too much pressure to submit and were
relying on others to make a reasonable case.</div>
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I really don't know
what “majority” the detractors think they are speaking on behalf
of but to me it is clear that the “majority” that I see has made
their wish for change loud and clear. The Senators thought so too.</div>
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<i>7.33 <span style="color: red;">The committee notes that the current levy system was put in
place at a time when the extent of vertical integration could not
have been foreseen. The prevailing perception is that <b>the current
structure has enabled processors to gain disproportionate influence
over the</b> <b>producer levy system, at the expense of grass-fed
producers </b>who pay the greatest proportion of the levy. Indeed,
this matter, along with concerns regarding the 'undemocratic' nature
of the MLA voting system, has contributed to the loss of trust in MLA
expressed by many submitters</span>. <a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8708428768586378687#sdfootnote2sym" name="sdfootnote2anc"><sup>2</sup></a></i></div>
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Recommendation
number seven states that,</div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">The committee recommends that the Department of Agriculture, in
consultation with the cattle industry, conduct an analysis of the
benefits, costs and consequences of introducing legislation akin to
the Packers and Stockyards Act 1921 and Livestock Mandatory Price
Reporting Act 1999</span>. </i>
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Already there have
been some rumblings that the US Acts are huge and expensive and cost
the processing industry billions of dollars to comply with. It would
be a great shame if the process were dismissed as a result without
proper discussion of the likely benefits.</div>
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<br />
The fact is that
there are many elements to the US system and its administration that
we will not need to start from scratch with but will be able to be
accommodated in existing structures.</div>
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Modern computer
technology also means that data can be collected, transmitted and
analysed relatively easily.</div>
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<br />
Peter Weeks in the
MLA submission claims that they achieve the aims of required
transparency by just ringing the processors and asking about their
sales information, which they give voluntarily, and <b>it only costs
about $2,000,000. </b>(emphasis
added).</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
GIPSA, the body in the US which oversees the Stockyards and Packers
Act spends considerable time prosecuting, settling and fining
companies who do not pay for livestock within the prescribed period
of three days. Payment protection is a very large part of their
mandate. Although there are always a few people who want payment
within a short period to be prescribed in Australia, many of us
realise that this would put undue financial pressure on some small
processors and we roll with the punches as long as we are ultimately
paid.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
As well as payment protection the agency is there <span style="color: black;"> </span><em><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">''</span></span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to
assure fair competition and fair trade practices, to safeguard
farmers and ranchers...to protect consumers...and to protect members
of the livestock, meat, and poultry industries from unfair,
deceptive, unjustly discriminatory and monopolistic practices..</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">.''</span></span></span></em>
<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8708428768586378687#sdfootnote3sym" name="sdfootnote3anc"><sup>3</sup></a></div>
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We already have a body in the ACCC which is supposed to oversee these
sorts of problems. They are not very active in rural industry until
recently and they do not appear to have a great deal of expertise in
or understanding of rural industry or a price taking market. A
dedicated rural desk backed by industry specific legislation should
see a more knowledgeable approach.</div>
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<br /></div>
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GIPSA also monitors the accuracy of scales and weighing of livestock.
We already have such a body in Ausmeat. The only question is whether
we want to give it more enforcement power and how much.</div>
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GIPSA also reviews stockyard services, handling practices and
facilities. In Australia we have a plethora of codes and regulation
which covers all of that.</div>
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Once the meat is stripped from the bone it may transpire that all we
need is a bit of tightening of existing laws and very few new ones
but they need an Act of there own to be coherent and have the
appropriate monitoring in place..</div>
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We need to start informing the Minister for Agriculture what we
require from an Australian version of the Stockyards and Packers Act
which should be unique and called something else, bearing in mind
that we do not want or need a clone of the US Act but a clean sheet
of paper where we list the similar functions that we require and how
we want them implemented.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">GIPSA's
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mission
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">is
unequivocally </span></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"To</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
protect fair trade Practices, financial integrity, and competitive
markets for livestock, meat, and poultry."</span></span></span></em><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span></span>
</div>
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<br /></div>
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It is charged with:-</div>
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<br /></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Conducting major investigations
involving fraud, unfair competition, and deceptive practices.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Ensuring accurate scales and
accurate weighing of livestock, meat, and poultry.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Monitoring market performance.</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Carrying out the payment and
statutory trust provisions of the Poultry Producers Financial
Protection Act of 1987. Continuing certification of the "clear
title" systems</div>
</li>
<li>
Reviewing stockyard services, handling practices, and
facilities.<br />
</li>
</ul>
We have no such body in Australia which is dedicated to producers
with MLA's Meat industry Strategic Plan, where it stops being a
social document, and occasionally poses as a business document,
talking about “supply chain profitability” rather than producer
profitability.<br />
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<br />
The Mandatory Price
Reporting Act requires:-</div>
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<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Source Sans Pro, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><span style="color: red;">that
the information, including price and volume information, be provided
in a format that can be readily understood by producers; improves the
price and supply reporting services of the Department of Agriculture;
and encourages competition in the marketplace for livestock and
livestock products</span>.</i></span></span></span>
</div>
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<br />
In the latest round
of amendments congress ordered the USDA to set up an interactive
website which covered prices and numbers for every category of
cattle, boxed beef and by-products as well as other livestock. A
sample of the website can be accessed <a href="http://mpr.datamart.ams.usda.gov/amsdashboard/cattle/Cattle_Dashboard_Option_1.html"><strong>here</strong></a>
and<a href="http://mpr.datamart.ams.usda.gov/amsdashboard/boxed_beef/BoxedBeef_Dashboard_Option_1.html">
<strong>here</strong></a>. A great deal of very up to date information can be sourced
from these reports. Processors are required to submit sales once or
twice a day. Do we want this in an Australian version of the Packers
and Stockyards Act.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
One of the problems
with the present market intelligence system as administered by MLA is
that the information available and its methods of presentation have
barely changed in a decade and a half. As time has moved on and the
industry has become more vertically integrated those left in the dark
have been the specialist cattle producers.</div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Do we need to do
better than this? The Senators have offered the opportunity. Are we
going to throw it away?</strong></span></div>
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</div>
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<br /></div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8708428768586378687#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym">1</a><a href="http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Rural_and_Regional_Affairs_and_Transport/Beef_levies/~/media/Committees/rrat_ctte/beef_levies/c07.pdf">http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Rural_and_Regional_Affairs_and_Transport/Beef_levies/~/media/Committees/rrat_ctte/beef_levies/c07.pdf</a>
ch,7 p81</div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8708428768586378687#sdfootnote2anc" name="sdfootnote2sym">2</a>
.Ibid. ch.7 p84</div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8708428768586378687#sdfootnote3anc" name="sdfootnote3sym">3</a><a href="http://www.gipsa.usda.gov/psp/psp.aspx">http://www.gipsa.usda.gov/psp/psp.aspx</a>
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Jo Reahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10590878964810922383noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-59348550252037642182015-02-28T23:34:00.000+10:002015-03-01T09:08:13.355+10:00Strength in Diversity<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Speech at the Unity Action Symposium, Chinchilla, February 28 2015 by PRA chairman Dale Stiller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The topic of this talk is ‘Strength in Diversity’ which is a
look at the core principles common to the different organisations or groups, how
an united approach of diverse groups <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can
help present a strong image and effect change <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against how the coal seam gas industry is
currently allowed to operate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let us start with the most important point, something I want
you to keep in mind as this talk progresses. No matter what organisation you
have thrown your hat in with it is not the organisation that is most important
but the people it helps to support. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As soon as a society
allows a minority or even an individual to be collateral damage for the likes
of an economic benefit or even what appears to be a worthy cause then it is
operating on an ethically deficient basis. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The coal seam gas industry has been given priority for
almost unrestricted development at considerable haste at the cost of landowners
and the productivity of agricultural lands.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
Some mining companies are also not operating as good corporate citizens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also needed for these new resource projects is
the necessary infrastructure and the government corporation Powerlink</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
delivering high voltage transmission lines was the worst of all to deal with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Each organisation has found it difficult to find acceptable
outcomes for individuals who at no fault of their own are victims of circumstances
supported by a bloody minded attitude of governments who are failing to govern
for all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A simple workable low cost solution is available to solve Bill
& Lyn Dahlheimer’s</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
understandable desire to retire before they are frail & elderly but it has
been ignored. Kylie Haeusler is discarded as collateral damage</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
fallen between the legislative cracks; the Chinchilla Jenkyn</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
& Nothdurft</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[6]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
families and others have an amenity of life that poor you wouldn’t wish it on
your worst enemy. A Georgetown cattleman</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[7]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
had a fence erected across his access road by a small gold mining outfit in
October 2013. It is still there and causing massive financial difficulties. A
Central Queensland woman is offered compensation only a sixth of the properties
true worth by a new coal mine. Both of these last two cases were forced to go
to court at huge cost to the landowner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">People have been placed in a situation of disadvantage.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[8]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
The system is not only failing, it has been designed to work against
landowners. I talk to many people like this and as the chair of an organisation
set up to help people I often feel inadequate. The best thing I can and anyone
can to help someone else is to listen and to stand by them offering moral
support <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">as
together you seek a solution</span> .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">************<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As individuals we are often inadequate in one aspect or the
other. We each have some skills and as we come together in groups and
organisations we complement each other’s skills<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even in the different groups we have our own strengths &
weaknesses. For part of this presentation I will talk about some of the recent
history of PRA not with the aim of promotion for what I will say will include
weaknesses, but with the aim of illustration to support the topic of this
presentation, ‘Strength in Diversity’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today is called the Unity Action Symposium, with the call to
Unite for the future. This could be seen as a call to unite into one single
super group. After all the pooling of a greater number of people will draw
together a greater amount of talent and isn’t it the case that politics is a
numbers game and politicians are always looking at numbers of voters who may
vote for or against them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will return and give you my view on this later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">***************<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Before I get too far I must inform you that you have been
warned that you should not listen to me as these words by a prominent figure in
December 2010 indicate:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The PRA example is exactly what we must avoid in addressing the CSG
issues.”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[9]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m sure this audience will take seriously the words of the
now former Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure
and Planning, Jeff Seeney. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This attack came completely out of the blue in an opinion
piece published in the Queensland Country Life in December 2010. Remember that
the LNP were in opposition at the time, not gaining office until early 2012.
PRA had not addressed any comment to the opposition, in fact PRA at far as I
know had no recent contact all with Mr Seeney. PRA had been with increasing
persistency bringing to the then governments attention and to the general
public what landowners were being subjected to in what appeared to be a blind
rush to roll out this new industry, Coal Seam Gas. People were being
disadvantaged. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr Seeney wrote:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“it is clearly absurd to suggest a reality check of the CSG industry's
operation over the past 10 years is an appalling idea”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“In regard to the CSG issues we can build a creditable case on
demonstratable facts and verifiable mainstream science that will withstand any
reality check”</span></i><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The then PRA chairman, Ron Bahnisch, asked for and was
granted a right of reply and so in the next week’s publication Ron wrote with
these words directed at Mr Seeney:</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[10]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Let’s see him “build a credible case on demonstrable facts and
verifiable main stream science that will withstand any reality check” in the
CSG mining industry. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Labor minister Robertson is much closer to the unfortunate reality by
claiming to proceed with the oxymoronic “adaptive precautionary principle”. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There lies the nub and the core of the dilemma. Neither position is
obtainable or sustainable.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ron later in his opinion article wrote about CSG:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The risks of coal seam gas extraction are real, otherwise there would
be no need for the complex regulatory controls that have been imposed. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The major problem is that if damage occurs, it will be almost
impossible to remedy, and that remedy will depend on the government of the day
- no matter what colour”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">These two opinion articles and the comments published at the
Rural Press farmonline web site together make for an interesting case study
from which many points could be extracted for example Ron writes about the
effectiveness of small interest groups to bring about government legislative
change. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr Seeney correctly stated that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“PRA was formed in response to the shameful injustices of the
Vegetation Management Act and the new organisation received a lot of early
support from landholders.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By his opinion article it appeared that he did not want PRA
to bring its focus on the shameful injustices being perpetrated upon
landholders, at the time in 2010 the Bligh Labor government and what was to
come in 2012 the following Newman LNP government, by allowing the unrestricted
access to the resource to multinational coal seam gas companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have shown an unflattering light on Mr Seeney of the LNP
in this talk but I will now also give condemnation to the contempt shown to
landowners and primary producers by the Beattie/ Bligh Labor governments over a
20 year period. Bear with me as I am laying this groundwork to bring across
later in this talk the points that are directed to the title, “Strength in
Diversity’. Understanding this 20 year period of recent Queensland political
history is important to understanding the response to the coal seam gas
industry. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From this time comes the at times awkward tension that
exists between some of groups who now find themselves on parallel paths
advocating against CSG injustice. </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[11]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was in this time that the highly commendable work of past
departments of agriculture was gutted, agency staff either reemployed or made
redundant and extension work largely abandoned. It may be in the best
intentions that Agforce the agricultural sector’s peak body took on government
contracts to disseminate information. The government got what it wanted the
money funded the facilitation of policy unpopular with farmers; it was a lot
cheaper than properly funding the department and they got a tamer peak body. It
may be for the best of intentions but in accepting a funding stream beyond
anything dream possible before, it became hard to yell too hard when latched
onto the teat. This became so evident in the wake of the Newman government
passing the appalling Mineral & Energy Resources (Common Provisions) Act
that in an unprecedented move the Queensland Country Life editorial questioned
the “deafening silence”</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[12]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
on the part of Agforce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I sincerely hope that such silence is a thing of the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was from this time that trust was destroyed between the
agricultural sector and government and the cooperation & innovation between
farmers and the agriculture department was lost to a department of Natural
Resources and mines later to become the super department of DERM where staff
were directed to dictate policy, coerce and prosecute.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[13]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">People not aware of this past have speculated to why
Queensland farmers capitulated in the face of the CSG onslaught. Amongst other
reasons it is because they felt abandoned by anyone in government to look after
their interests and the peak body was providing “education” to how to adapt to
the living with the CSG machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of
the landowners who signed contracts with a CSG company did not do so because
they were happy with the industry as the likes of APPEA falsely propagate but
because of seeing no other possibility than to get the best deal that they could
which was often inadequate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What was motivating Mr Seeney from the opposition benches in
December 2010 to write this opinion article to which online commenters were
“mystified”, “puzzled” and asked “what point are you making”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The future revealed a Newman LNP government
making legislative change at the same break neck speed that the Bligh Labor
government set loose the CSG monster. All of the various groups trying to
ensure a better future for landowners disadvantaged by CSG were buried in
submission writing. Not only were resource base legislation introduced or
amended but also Planning Acts and also the Water Act blatantly moulded to best
suit the unrestricted progress of resource projects.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am keen to obtain & read a book reviewed in July 2013
by an online friend, retired newspaper editor, John Mikkelsen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book review is called ‘Mining captures
politics’</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[14]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
and John writes:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“GOVERNMENTS change but the politics surrounding mining and resource
developments don’t, according to the author of a controversial new book about
to be launched in Gladstone. ‘Road to Exploitation’ subtitled ‘Political
Capture by Mining in Queensland’ follows years of pains-taking research. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The book authenticates not only landholders’ concerns about coal and
CSG's unacceptable impacts upon their strategic cropping land and aquifers, but
also concerns about damage to Gladstone Harbour's ecology through examples of
sweetheart deals entered into by Cabinet that bound the government's regulatory
and administrative agencies to policies of minimum compliance, lack of
regulatory enforcement, false benchmarking of the science and eventually, abandonment
of co-existence with behind the scenes resignation of unavoidable impacts. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“The book's contents and documentation justify the title and
demonstrate this principle: Capture executive government in Queensland and the
regulatory and administrative processes are captured as well”.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was in 2010 that Basin Sustainability Alliance</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[15]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
was formed and so was Lock the Gate; so why weren’t these two organisations
given the blow torch as well. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The following is a series of assumptions on my part but I am
assuming that BSA may not have come onto Mr Seeney’s radar as yet, which may
have been a mistake as BSA was to lay a good foundation in its first year under
its ‘Not at any cost’ motto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More recently
under David Hamilton’s leadership BSA was to refine the technique of polite but
firm correspondence with political leaders; patient probing investigation
accumulating knowledge and maintaining a highly credible appearance. In all of
these things BSA does better than any other landowner advocate group that
focuses on CSG.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m assuming that it may have been thought that any
influence of the newly fledged Lock the Gate could be negated because of one of
its founding members, Drew Hutton</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[16]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,
who had a high profile as a former leader of the Queensland Greens party and
association with various environmental causes. But Drew had a political savvy
lacking in any rural based advocacy group leadership and importantly
metropolitan media contacts. To get a rural based story into the metropolitan
media was and remains difficult. Lock to the Gate is a simple message to sell
that has appeal to an urban audience and a lot more people got to know about
CSG, the potential impacts and the disadvantage placed upon landowners. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">PRA came under attack in December 2010 because it could not
be pigeon holed as an environmental group and also it had a very successful
track record of legal action against DERM with 12 wins out of 13 court cases.
To be clear PRA isn’t anti- environment rather pro supporting disadvantaged
landowners. Repeating what I said earlier; as soon as a society allows a
minority or even an individual to be collateral damage for the likes of an
economic benefit or even what appears to be a worthy cause then it is operating
on ethically deficient basis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PRA
advocated on behalf of people using the two pillars of science and specialist
legal opinion. PRA also has a maxim that if the government or the majority of
the population wanted something that caused disadvantage to landowners - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">then pay for it.</b> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over the last 12 months there been a concerted effort to
polarise the debate about coal seam gas. Directed largely at the urban
population, resource advocacy groups APPEA & Queensland Resources Council
together with Newman government ministers have taken pains to promote the
concept that only radical greenies were against coal seam gas. Landowners
especially those disadvantaged were carefully not mentioned. Remember the
defence of the indefensible M&ER Common Provisions Act in September last
year with government ministers repeating that “only radical greenies” had a
problem with the new Act.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[17]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Andrew Cripps the Minister for Natural Resource & Mines sounded
more and more ludicrous as time went on especially this exchange recorded for
prosperity in Hansard:</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[18]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“Mr Cripps: Some of the objections put forward by the member for South
Brisbane, the member for Bundamba and repeated by the member for Stafford and
some members of the crossbench I am really frustrated with because they
consistently repeated a falsehood that has been perpetuated, as I said on a
number of occasions during my second reading contribution, by green activist
groups and by certain legal firms and they are just as much to blame for
perpetuating the myth. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr CRIPPS: They are perpetuating a myth. I am happy to go on record
that it is not just AgForce, but Cotton Australia and the Queensland Farmers
Federation are perpetuating a myth. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ms Trad: Well done, Minister. Congratulations. “<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Earlier when the Common Provisions bill was before the
Parliamentary Committee there was only one hearing date appearing on the
committee’s web page and no landowner or rural advocacy groups had been
invited; however the Environmental Defenders Office had been. Agforce, Basin Sustainability
Alliance, Cotton Australia, Shine Lawyers, EDO Qld and Qld Farmers Federation
met prior to the hearing and produced an 8 point communique</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[19]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
for EDO to table at the hearing on behalf of all these organisations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This united approach resulted in 3 more hearing being
scheduled and also a very interesting response from Michael Roache of QRC who
sent emails to each rural advocacy group who took part. By kind
permission of David Hamilton to whom it was sent and also the current BSA president
Lyn Nicholson I can reveal that Roache appeared to be quite worried by this
joint approach and stated a preference of deal with each organisation
individually. Micheal Roache wrote in part:</span></div>
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"consensus document".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would
have hoped that each of you would have felt comfortable approaching QRC with
any concerns and would urge you to do so in the future.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s an astonishing plead to return to the good old days of
resource companies dividing and conquering. This is the case where the divide
or diversity of advocacy organisations coming together on core principles
proved to be powerful.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last month a researcher from the Melbourne University,
Steven Burge, was intervening landowners and others in the Surat basin about
CSG. I asked for Stevens’s permission to use this quote of his in this talk as
it shows the advantage of having a diverse range of voices speaking out about
CSG. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The reason that first gave me a very good indication that something
was amiss with the development of the CSG industry was that it wasn’t just one
section being vocal about it. If it was only groups who have in the past
championed environmental causes being active it could be taken as nothing out
of the ordinary. But there was a whole spectrum of different community sectors
speaking out, some of which are normally seen as quite conservative and
reluctant activists</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Small local community groups are important that brings
together the community of local landowners for moral support. Some groups even
demand that resource or infrastructure project proponents negotiate with the
group as a whole in the initial stages so that a base standard is met and that
impacts to the community as a whole are minimised. This is a powerful tool, one
the resource companies do not like, who much prefer the age old tactic of divide
and conquer. Our hosts today, the Hopeland Community group</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[20]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
has taken it a step further to stage this symposium to disseminate information
to the wider community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jenny York from
the Woodduck group</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[21]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">
</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/user/Documents/Rural%20Action/Property%20Rights%20Aust/2015%20Feb%2028%20Unity%20syposium%20Chinchilla.docx" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue;">[22]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">spoke
earlier, there are Cameby Hall group people here today and there are examples
further afield. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The greatest role for a small community group is to offer
local moral support and associate with a larger organisation for resourcing and
advocacy to government. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">People are not all the same and different people group
together because of common interests and values. Some of these values to the
peripheral of core principles in objection to current CSG activity don’t make
it possible for the formation of a super organisation. That is not a weakness,
it is just life. Weakness would be the denial of the obvious. We need to focus
on what we agree on while recognising the important differences. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We can be united in a core belief and real strength comes
from recognising other differences with honesty, respect and civility. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally I will repeat my first and most important point. No
matter what organisation you have thrown your hat in with it is not the
organisation that is most important but the people it helps to support.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-12984679928484555392015-01-25T04:09:00.000+10:002015-01-25T04:09:28.090+10:00The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 4 - Stream diversions<br />
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by George Houen</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="McArthur River Diversion, July 2010 © MPI / 2010" height="358" src="http://www.mininglegacies.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/mcarthur_river_july2010_06.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto;" width="640" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">McArthur River Mine, photo sourced <a href="http://www.mininglegacies.org/mines/northern-territory/mcarthur-river/" target="_blank">[here]</a> </td></tr>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Stream Diversions</strong></span></u><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Setting the miners free to
dewater as much as they like and without any prior impact assessment is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not consistent with the Bill’s treatment of
miners’ authority to divert surface water in streams, which currently also
requires a water licence. Under the amended section 98 of the Water Act they
may only divert a stream if the particular diversion and its impacts were
assessed as part of the grant of an environmental authority and a condition of
the authority allows it. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Comment</span></u><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It should be permissible that objections against an environmental
authority or its conditions (including any Coordinator General’s conditions)
may include objections against a proposed stream diversion.</span></b></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>First Refusal for Affected
Landholders</strong></span></u><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Under the Bill’s clause 334Z of
the MR Act, the miner may use the associated water for any purpose anywhere. This
could result, for example, in groundwater which the bore owner is entitled to
and is relying upon, being taken and used by the miner off lease for a
non-mining purpose, or sold to someone else for a non-mining purpose. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Comment</span></u><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where the dewatering produces associated water in excess of a miner’s requirements
for the mining purposes, the miner should be required to treat the surplus by
reverse osmosis, then give all potentially affected landholders first right of
refusal to take the treated water for their own use, at no cost. </span></b></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<strong><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Agreement</span></u><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A template
make good agreement (which is readily adapted for either mining or CSG) is available from landholder Services. It was first adopted
at the Callide Mine some 6 years ago and has been subjected to extensive review
since. Provisions for baseline testing, monitoring and setting of trigger
levels in the original agreement have operated satisfactorily.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">George Houen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Landholder Services Pty Ltd</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>13 Cottesloe Street</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>Toowoomba </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>Qld 4350</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>Phone 07 4632 1024</o:p></span></div>
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<strong>Previous published related posts</strong></div>
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<strong><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms_20.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #992211;">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 1 - Deregulation of the Dewatering of Mines</span></a></strong> </div>
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The<strong><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-water-act.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #992211;"> Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 2 - Uncoordinated Approval System </span></a></strong></div>
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<strong><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-water-act_22.html" target="_blank">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 3, Make Good</a></strong> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-7692257354107773602015-01-22T18:37:00.000+10:002015-01-22T18:42:10.923+10:00The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 3, Make Good<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Mine monitoring bore going dry" src="http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/2223350-3x2-940x627.jpg" height="213" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Mine monitoring bore going dry" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-07/nrn-bore-water-drop/4870924" target="_blank">Farmer claims mine water monitoring is flawed</a></td></tr>
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By George Houen<br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Make Good<o:p></o:p></strong></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mine dewatering is to be subject
to the Water Act provisions requiring underground water impact reports,
baseline assessments, general agreements and make good agreements. These will
do little if anything to protect the rights of other groundwater users. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Miners will hide behind the one-side
and trivial provisions of the Water Act to frustrate any attempts by landowners
to achieve make good agreements that are actually workable and enforceable. The
limited<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bargaining power which the
landowner may have during the current objection process will no longer count
for anything as far as a make good agreement is concerned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Water Act make good
provisions are so one-sided and fundamentally flawed that in practical terms
are they unenforceable, for example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">settlement
of a make good agreement is not required before dewatering begins, so </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the landholder
has no bargaining power – only a recourse to the Court and the Court would be
restricted by these badly designed Water Act provisions </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">no requirement
for independent expert testing of bores;<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">bore
owner not entitled to the data and reports<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">baseline
testing of private bores inadequate (especially as sustainable yield and
gas intrusion not tested)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">no
regular monitoring of private bores including for specific capacity (short-form
yield test) and gas intrusion<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">no
expert-determined declining value trigger levels for individual bores
derived from monitoring data (just one-size-fits-all water level decline
which is not conclusive proof of diminished capacity) <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">no
process for independent expert interpretation of impaired capacity and its
cause when trigger levels reached<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">no
process for resolving appropriate make good action<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">no dispute
resolution process for technical matters requiring expert assessment<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">both
make good and compensation are assessed according to the ‘authorised
purpose or use’ of the bore, ie. its licensed yield limit (if there is
one) and description of its utilisation at the time of baseline testing.
Either or both of those parameters may be substantially below the bore’s
actual capacity. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Comment<o:p></o:p></strong></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Licenced yield (if the bore is
subject to licensing) can be amended. Subject
to that upper limit it is the owner’s right to use the bore’s full capacity and
it is that full capacity which must be underwritten by the make good system. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Water Act make good scheme fails to test (baseline test) and track (by
monitoring) an individual bore’s actual capacity and thereby accurately
identify any adverse change and its cause. Data from those in-house assessments
isn’t required to be shared with the bore owner. Those<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">broad groundwater assessments and reports under the Water Act will
gather a vast bank of data which is of little if any use when it comes to
achieving a just outcome for the owner of a damaged bore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>More detail of the dysfunctional
nature of the make good scheme may be found in ‘<a href="http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/AREC/2014/26-WaterReformOLA14/tp-29Oct2014-Shannon.pdf" target="_blank">Make Good Flaws</a>’, a
supplementary document from Basin Sustainability Alliance at the <a href="http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/AREC/2014/26-WaterReformOLA14/Trns-PH29Oct2014.pdf" target="_blank">29thOctober 2014 public hearing</a> of the Agriculture, Resources and Environmental
Committee of Parliament.</strong> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As is painfully obvious from experience in make good negotiations with
CSG companies, such weak and inadequate terms in the Act are used by resource companies
as a shield to deflect and frustrate any attempt by landholders to negotiate
realistic and enforceable terms of a make good agreement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As stated above, dewatering <strong><u>approval should only granted after the
proponent has entered into a make good agreement with each potentially affected
bore owner</u>. <o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<o:p></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Private make good agreements can meet all the tests referred to above.
In both parties’ interests the agreement must lay out a process for gathering
and supplying to both parties the necessary up to date data and fact and
independent expert assessment. Both parties require that information as
evidence in the event a make good claim arises. The resource company’s right to
challenge a make good claim in court must be respected. The onus of proof of
damage and its cause is on the bore owner and the standard of proof is
demanding, so that the agreement must ensure the necessary data and fact are
available if needed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A government-sponsored standard make good agreement would be
appropriate, but that should be the extent of the Government’s involvement. </span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img class="mfp-img" src="http://www.miningreview.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/figure3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-height: 735px;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Areas in Surat Basin where aquifers will be impacted by coal seam gas<br />
Prepared by the Office of Groundwater Impact Assessment<br />
<a href="http://www.miningreview.com.au/news/managing-groundwater-impacts-coal-seam-gas/" target="_blank">Managing groundwater impacts of coal seam gas</a></td></tr>
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<strong>Previous published related posts</strong></div>
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<strong><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms_20.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #992211;">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 1 - Deregulation of the Dewatering of Mines</span></a></strong> </div>
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The<strong><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-water-act.html" target="_blank"> Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 2 - Uncoordinated Approval System </a></strong></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-32720485034260947532015-01-21T23:25:00.000+10:002015-01-21T23:29:30.633+10:00The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 2 - Uncoordinated Approval System<div style="text-align: center;">
by George Houen</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image sourced Qld Government, <a href="https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industry/water/managing-accessing/accessing-water/bores" target="_blank">water bores</a></td></tr>
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<u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Uncoordinated Approval System</strong></span></u><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Currently mine dewatering must be
authorised by a water licence under the Water Act, application for which is a
separate process from the mining lease and environmental authority and it
occurs separately and much later. It also has its own appeal process, for which
the Land Court is also the arbitrator.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Land Court has found that
currently it has only marginal jurisdiction on the issue because the water licence
is not part of an objections hearing. This leaves landholders potentially
affected by impacts of dewatering with nowhere to go. President of the Court CAC
MacDonald, in her judgement on the objections hearing for the <strong><a href="http://www.landcourt.qld.gov.au/documents/decisions/MRA092-11%20Xstrata.pdf" target="_blank">Wandoan Coal project</a></strong><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></sup>, addressed her observations about this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">undesirable dichotomy</i> to the respective Ministers for Mines and
Environment, saying (inter alia) at [608]:</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
impacts of water diversions and extractions associated with the project seem to
me to be highly relevant to any consideration of whether the project should be
approved or refused. In my opinion, it is unsatisfactory that the impacts of
water extractions and diversions are not properly assessed and considered under
the Water Act until after the project has been approved under the MRA and the
EPA.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The separate (and later) water
licence application and approval process doesn’t allow cumulative impacts of
mining to be properly addressed and by the time a decision is made on grant of
a water licence it is likely that the mining project will already have been
approved. Thus it is unlikely the decision maker for the water licence will
reject the application and so derail the project. If a landholder did appeal
the grant that would be a doubling up of their cost and time spent on an
objections hearing.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some water licenses for mine
dewatering may have make good conditions, but never on terms that realistically
are enforceable – ie. no proper baseline testing of the individual bore for
sustainable yield (water levels are not enough), no proper monitoring to
develop data and no properly derived trigger values. That is, a bore owner
relying on such a make good condition could not meet the onus of proof or the standard
of proof required to sustain a make good claim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The present legislation governing approval of mine dewatering is
dysfunctional and needs to be fixed – not by the process set out in the Bill but
by way of a scheme:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">placing approval of mine dewatering
under the Environmental Protection Act;<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">integrating objections with the mining
lease/environmental authority approval process, such that cumulative
impacts cab be assessed;<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">providing transparency, appropriate
assessment of impacts and the right for objectors to be heard before the
Land Court;<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">making dewatering conditional upon the
proponent having first settled make good agreements with all potentially
affected bore owners;<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">putting disposal of associated water
from mines on a similar footing to the disposal obligations of CSG producers,
ie. requiring it only be released after treatment by reverse osmosis;<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the miner’s right to use the associated
water for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any purpose anywhere</i>
be subject to first offering it free of charge to landholders affected by
the dewatering.<o:p></o:p></span></b></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It seems inappropriate that this authority to dewater (including by
evaporation from a mine pit) is placed in the Mineral Resources Act. Perhaps
this is done deliberately to exploit the prohibitions and limitations placed on
mining lease objections by the Common Provisions Act. </span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image sourced <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/coal-seam-gas-by-the-numbers/" target="_blank">ABC</a>: Coal Seam Gas by the numbers.</td></tr>
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<strong>Previous published related post</strong><br />
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<strong><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms_20.html" target="_blank">The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 1 - Deregulation of the Dewatering of Mines</a></strong> </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-43100494892193795782015-01-20T23:54:00.000+10:002015-01-20T23:57:59.478+10:00The Newman Government’s Water Act amendments: Part 1 - Deregulation of the Dewatering of Mines<div align="center">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Deregulation of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Dewatering of Mines<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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extraction process in open cut and longwall underground coal mining (and to a
lesser extent other minerals), miners pump accumulated groundwater out of the
pit, they also pump from bores to dewater the ground in advance. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image sourced <a href="http://www.sustainableaggregates.com/laymansguide/mineral_operations.htm" target="_blank">[here]</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The pit becomes a sump which
drains all aquifers overlying the target coal seam, and the coal seam itself.
The resulting drawdown extends outward in a radius determined by permeability
of the ground and interconnection between aquifers. One expert report for the
Galilee Basin predicted the radius of permanent drawdown to extend 30km – even
with lesser distances, the scope for damage <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to landholder’s bores is obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That this dewatering has major
implications for the environment and for owners of water bores is authoritatively
shown by <a href="http://www.landcourt.qld.gov.au/documents/decisions/MRA082-13-etc-4-12.pdf" target="_blank">Land Court’s Alpha Coal judgement</a><sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></sup>, in which the primary
recommendation was to reject the mining application. Despite extensive expert
study and evidence on groundwater, the Court found that evidence unsatisfactory
as to the impact of the mine’s dewatering on other groundwater users and on the
ecology. The Court’s fallback recommendation made any approval for the mine conditional
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the proponent first obtaining water
licenses on conditions which resolve all concerns pursuant to the
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groundwater monitoring points on each of the objectors’ properties, and <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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proponent must enter into make good agreements with each of the three
objectors either within 12 months of grant of the mining lease, or before
mining activities commence, whichever is the sooner. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In contrast to the impacts of
mine dewatering, dewatering for CSG (which is unregulated) targets the specific
gas-yielding coal seam. It is usually deeper than the water supply aquifers and
usually with poorer quality water. It is dewatered to liberate the gas from
fissures in the coal. Except where private bores actually draw from that same seam,
the impact of CSG dewatering on water bores is indirect. In response to the alteration
in relative water pressures, and depending on permeability and interconnections,
water from other aquifers may flow to the dewatered coal seam. Because the coal
itself is not disturbed, presumably it is possible in the long term that the
original saturation and pressure balance would be reinstated.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Land Court’s Alpha Coal decision shows, as is common sense, that mine
dewatering impacts are difficult to predict but involve major, direct and
permanent impacts on the groundwater relied upon by landholders and townsfolk,
as well as significant environmental impacts. Accordingly mine dewatering
should be made an integral part of the approvals process. But as explained
below, CSG dewatering is very different in its process and its impacts. The
proposition that mine dewatering needs to be deregulated to put miners on an
even footing with CSG operators is contrived and invalid.</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" sb_id="ms__id7841" style="text-align: left;">Skid mounted pump installed on a barge in a coal mining operation</span><br />
<span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" sb_id="ms__id7841" style="text-align: left;">Photo sourced<a href="http://www.pumpsandsystems.com/topics/pumps/dewatering-simplified-0812" target="_blank"> [here]</a> </span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #992211;"><strong>The Newman Government’s Mining Reforms - Part 1 Common Provisions, Restricted Land</strong></span></a></div>
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<strong><a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms_14.html" target="_blank">The Newman Government’s Mining Reforms - Part 3 Common Provisions, Objections</a></strong> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-33659166969758673872015-01-20T00:46:00.000+10:002015-01-20T00:46:08.514+10:00PRA Qld election media release: No Disadvantage principle<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No disadvantage principle</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Property Rights
Australia calls on all party leaders and independent candidates in the upcoming
Queensland election to commit to one simple, straight forward principle that
each and every<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>landowner or regional
community should experience <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“No Disadvantage”</b>
due to the resources industry or resource infrastructure.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Property Rights Australia chairman Dale
Stiller stated that, “Landowners should not be subsidising mining, coal seam
gas projects and associated infrastructure which is exactly what is happening
when negative impacts on landowners and communities are not being recognised,
not compensated for or no priority given over resource activity when there is
no current solution to unrepairable damage to things of fundamental value such
as the very small percentage of high quality soils. The ability of the
productive capacity of the land should not be impaired nor impacts to enjoy
prior amenity of life residing on that land be left not resolved.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“All parties and
candidates must commit to and govern by the simple No Disadvantage principle in
the next parliament when it enacts policy and introduces legislation, “said Mr
Stiller, “A simple no disadvantage principle, enshrined in legislation, would
ensure that all Queenslanders can enjoy the resources boom, with no losers, no
victims and the present unresolved palpable resentment defused.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Most landowners
accept that the resource industries are necessary, however with significant
issues unresolved farming families simply loathe the fact that they are
currently subsidising the resource sector. “<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PRA believes that
committing to the No Disadvantage principle provides a positive solution, a
rule of thumb to progress all of Queensland into the future. While there may be
some within political parties that may wish to dispute what has occurred in the
past, it is important that all of the population is informed and lessons are
learnt from past mistakes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The last two
governments have failed the No Disadvantage test”, said PRA chairman Dale
Stiller, “not only in the term of the current Newman LNP government, but also
in the prior Beattie and Bligh ALP governments, it has been regional landowners
and communities that bore the full brunt of the mining boom, and the unseemly
haste to which the coal seam gas industry was steamrolled out”, said Mr Stiller
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The impacts
landowners have suffered have been largely ignored in the larger cities and
coastal areas where the majority of the electorates are. For these urban
electorates regarding the resource activity that is occurring in rural and
regional Queensland, the only news that they receive is about jobs, royalties
to help the budget and creating an economic powerhouse for Queensland. Debate
is often based on environmental issues and rarely are adverse changes for
regional landowners and communities mentioned. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The lack of
awareness to major impacts that are very real to the people living where
resource activity is occurring is extremely frustrating”, said Mr Stiller. “The
debate is conducted as if it is a Terra Nullius ‘out there’ while, especially
in the coal seam gas industry, it is sprawling invasively across the landscape,
where farming families are endeavouring to produce food and fibre to help feed
and clothe the people of this Nation”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Property Rights
Australia recently produced this incomplete list of what landowners have been
subjected to: <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Non-disclosure of
information; isolate, divide & conquer; contrived bluffs; strategized and
pressured negotiations; limited and miserly compensation; landowners time
uncompensated both before and after a CCA is signed; blatant wasting of
landowner's time; stress; complete disregard and disinterest in how
agricultural management systems can work in with a gas field; the co-existence
myth; gates open; weeds; loss of underground water; no solution for a mountain of
salt and other contaminants brought to the surface; loss of amenity of living
including privacy; roads destroyed; dust; noise; sense of community lost;
liability from contamination unresolved; uncompensated diminution of property
value; unsaleable properties; non-compliance to signed agreements. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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govern for all. The Newman government systematically made significant
legislative changes to numerous Acts that have severely reduced the rights of
landowners for the benefit of miners. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Campbell Newman (LNP), Annastacia Palaszczuk (ALP), John Bjelke-Petersen (PUP),
Rob Katter (KAP), Penny Allman-Payne, convenor (Qld Greens) and all Independent
candidates in the Queensland election to commit to the “No Disadvantage”
principle.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-4901438916182216922015-01-14T19:29:00.000+10:002015-01-14T19:29:03.185+10:00The Newman Government’s Mining Reforms - Part 3 Common Provisions, Objections<div align="center">
by George Houen</div>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSnEiJTAugxGOD1woE9BWZntDd4p-cndRRm2K6hvfkJE9C6rO8X" data-sz="f" jsaction="load:str.tbn" name="UKBf6Bw6T8RdtM:" sb_id="ms__id1654" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSnEiJTAugxGOD1woE9BWZntDd4p-cndRRm2K6hvfkJE9C6rO8X" style="height: 171px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; width: 256px;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-for-controversy-20130128-2dgul.html" target="_blank">[here]</a> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Objections - environmental approval</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> </span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
Environmental Protection, State Development and Mineral Resources Acts all
apply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For environmental approval of small <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(standard)</i> mining applications,
nobody will be notified and nobody may object. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Where the Coordinator General conducts an
EIS for large (site specific) mining, he or she can (and I believe will)
block all environmental objections. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only on the small number of mid to large
projects where Environment and Heritage (DEH) - rather than the
Coordinator General - conducts the EIS or the alternative environmental
approval process, will there be assured public notice and a right to
object.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">standard mining </i>applications, there will
be no advertising of the application and no direct notice to affected
landholders of the application for, or grant of, a standard environmental
authority. And nobody – not even the affected landowner - will have a right to
make submissions or to object. Nobody can challenge decisions by the chief
executive of DEH to issue environmental authority for standard mining projects.
Nobody can submit that extra conditions are needed. Even if the applicant has a
bad past record or is otherwise unworthy of being granted environmental
authority, nobody can raise those concerns. On its record, DEH will invariably
decide in favour of the miner.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For
environmental approval of large (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">site
specific</i>) projects:</span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
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<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If an EIS has already been completed
through either the Coordinator General or alternatively DEH, any
submissions previously made on the EIS (except any part relating to a
Coordinator General’s condition) may, if the submitter requests, become
objections initially to DEH and ultimately to the Land Court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But if the Coordinator General, in stating
conditions for the proposed environmental authority, has also stated he or
she is satisfied the conditions adequately address environmental effects
of the mining activity, no submissions can go forward as objections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For a non-EIS project, the application to
DEH for environmental authority and the application documents will be
publicly advertised and any person may make submissions. Then once DEH
makes its decision, submitters may elect to have their submissions treated
as objections to be heard by the Land Court.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I believe, based
on past performance, we can expect that in every case where the Coordinator
General conducts an EIS he or she will invoke that power to prohibit
objections. With standard environmental applications also rendered untouchable,
only on the small number of site specific applications conducted exclusively by
DEH is it assured that notification will continue and the right to object in
the Land Court remain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://media.apnarm.net.au/img/media/images/2011/11/21/25mine2_fct1024x630x15_t620.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="620" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo sourced <a href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/call-to-consider-environmental-impact-mega-mine/2225392/" target="_blank">[here]</a> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Objection to mining lease applications</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For small
(standard) mining applications –</span></span></div>
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only the owners of land subject to the
mining lease, or of access land, or of adjoining land and the Shire
Council, may object to the mining application; and <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Grounds of objection are for the first
time restricted and severely limited, as below. <o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For medium
and large (site specific) applications –</span></span><br />
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As to the application for mining lease,
only the owners of land the subject of the application, and of any access
land and of any adjoining land and the Shire Council may object.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Permissible grounds of objection for
owners of subject land are specified and severely restricted, ie: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whether the Act has been complied with;
whether mining is appropriate land use; whether mining supports sound land
use management; impacts on the surface of the land within the mining
lease; impacts on affected persons.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></li>
</ol>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As is the
case now, the Court can only allow objectors to give evidence and make
submissions within the scope of their grounds of objection duly lodged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All five of the new grounds of objection for
owners of the subject land are inconsequential. They will be impossible, or
near impossible, to substantiate with evidence. Impacts on the surface land
might be a potentially viable ground if it referred to the owner’s land outside
the lease, but it doesn’t – it refers only to land within the lease. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A new
provision covering both environmental and mining lease objections reinforces
the Court’s existing ability to strike out non-conforming objections. A costs
order against the objector would usually follow a strike out order. Since the
court has always had discretion to strike out objections, this provision isn’t
necessary. Perhaps it is included to further discourage objections. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Some of the issues
which are important and meaningful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for
landholders, but on which objections are prohibited by the new restricted
grounds, include:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is the land actually mineralised; are the size and shape of the
lease<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>justified; is the proposed term
justified; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the applicant’s past
record satisfactory; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would the project
cause damage to the balance land, does the lease cut off vital access roads,
does the applicant have the financial and technical capability for the project.</i>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Adjoining
owners have an even shorter list of permissible grounds of objection, but one
is potentially viable:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">impacts on the existing use of adjoining
land.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Under the
reforms, the important matters on which it is the Court’s job to report have
been selectively culled. The Court can no longer report on: whether <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the proposed lease is mineralised and the
lease size and shape OK; whether <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>utilisation of the deposit is acceptable; whether
the applicant has the necessary financial and technical resources; whether the
applicant’s past record is satisfactory; whether term of lease sought is
appropriate</i>, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those matters will
in future be decided by the Minister alone, without either landholder input or the
Court’s independent assessment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In a
nutshell, as they affect mining lease applications the reforms:</span></span></div>
<ol style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">restrict the right to object to only
specified landowners and the Shire; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">restrict the grounds of objection to
relatively inconsequential matters which will be difficult if not
impossible to support with evidence;<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">consequently render it likely futile to
object and for those who do object, increase <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the risk of a costs order; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">remove from the Court’s jurisdiction the responsibility
to assess and report on the bona fides and merit of mining lease
applications; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">consequently restrict the Court’s
ability<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to independently advise the
Minister on the merits of mining applications.</span></span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-40076927518510648242015-01-13T22:16:00.003+10:002015-01-13T22:21:58.222+10:00The Newman Government’s Mining Reforms - Part 2 Common Provisions, Mining lease application and notification<div align="center">
by George Houen </div>
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Continuing from Part 1 Common Provisions, <a href="http://evacuationgrounds.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/the-newman-governments-mining-reforms.html" target="_blank">Restricted Land</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><u><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><u><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Marking
Out</span></u><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">: the white posts a metre
high which, for generations, have visually located the boundaries of a mining
lease will be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>history. At lodgement
stage, unless directed otherwise by the chief executive, the lease applicant
will only need to describe the boundaries on paper, by GPS coordinates or the
like. Physical markers are no longer compulsory. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">While the
chief executive has power to order the applicant to physically mark the lease
boundary in some way, that may or may not happen And when you do eventually
receive formal notice of the lease application, it won’t necessarily even
include a map of the proposed lease boundaries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<u><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">Notice:</span></u><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"> No longer will mining applications be publicly
advertised –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Mining Lease Notice
will be given but only to the owner and/or occupier of the subject land, or of land
across which access is required, plus the owner of adjoining land, the owner of
infrastructure (eg. powerline or pipeline) and the relevant local government.
An even smaller selection of persons are permitted to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>object – ie. the owner of land subject to the
lease, the owner of any land required for access, the owners of adjoining land,
and the local government. Objecting will likely be futile and risky, as will be
explained below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The old
certificate of application, which was required by the Act to be issued as soon
as the lease application was accepted, is eliminated and not replaced. To the
extent it was issued as required, the certificate gave landowners prompt notice
that someone had applied for a mining lease and the details of the application.
But in practice that basic right was denied because, especially in recent
years, the department issued the certificate, not at the start as required but
at the end, simultaneously with issue of the certificate of public notice
(where it served no purpose). Elimination of the certificate of application
means the department can in future leave affected landowners in the dark
without breaking the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">For larger
projects requiring an EIS or the processing of a complex environmental
authority application, the objection phase is typically delayed 4 years or so
after lodgement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Landowners left in the
dark for that lengthy period could fail their duty to the bank to disclose the
encumbrance, could commit in ignorance to new improvements or other personal or
business plans that would be affected by the proposed lease, could buy or sell
land in ignorance of the lease application and so on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mining Lease Notice</i> replaces the old,
publicly advertised certificate of public notice. The new notice has the
limited purpose of directly notifying the few people who still have objection
rights of their opportunity to object to the lease application. An additional
purpose will be to give the landowner the one and only formal notice of the
details of the application (but on larger projects where it matters most,
typically 4 years too late).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;">The Mining Lease Notice for standard lease applications (ie. small
mining covered by area limits and standard environmental conditions) is to be
given to the same list of affected persons as soon as the chief executive is
satisfied the applicant is eligible and that the application complies with the
Act. If the department complies with this statutory obligation, that will at
least ensure prompt notice of standard applications to landowners affected by
small mining. However, the reforms mean it will also likely be futile for these
owners to object, as explained in Part 3.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Former Acland residents moved for the Acland mine. Photo sourced <a href="http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/opponents-instill-new-hope-coal-mine-toowoomba/1651833/" target="_blank">Toowoomba Chronicle</a> </td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08937219469312905632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8708428768586378687.post-47233793969298717552015-01-12T23:08:00.000+10:002015-01-13T06:34:52.935+10:00The Newman Government’s Mining Reforms - Part 1 Common Provisions, Restricted Land<br />
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by <span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">George Houen</span></span></span> </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo taken by John Jenkyn on the night of Jan 12, 2015 of Origins gas flare 16 km away to the ENE. At the same time <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".8.1:3:1:$comment925174240840923_925176784174002:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".8.1:3:1:$comment925174240840923_925176784174002:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".8.1:3:1:$comment925174240840923_925176784174002:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">John took photos of a further 2 big flares going, Brentleigh to the ESE & Codie that is due west. Under the Common Provisions regulations this coal seam gas infrastructure could be constructed only 200 metres from your home.</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<strong>The M&E Resources
(Common Provisions) Act</strong> brings massive, mostly adverse change to landholders’
rights concerning exploration and the
objection and approval process. It does also bring some worthwhile streamlining
and coordination changes between the resource Acts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Understanding</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">the practical effect of those numerous changes
is not easy, even for practitioners who work with the resources legislation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Queensland
a large proportion of the mineral and petroleum resources are located in highly
productive, more closely settled agricultural and grazing land, so it is
inevitable that resource activities cause a high degree of land use conflict. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the job
of the State government, in authorising access to private land and controlling
the exploitation of mineral and petroleum resources, to manage the resulting land
use conflict. Fairness and minimal disruption and damage to the affected
agricultural and grazing businesses must be the objective. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;">I believe
this paper shows that the reforms have severely reduced the rights of
landholders for the benefit of miners. Once landholders come face to face with
the changes, I believe we will see open hostility and resistance to resource
operators. I believe it would be prudent for the government to reconsider the
changes so as to restore fairness and effective management of land use conflict.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Restricted Land<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All resource activities including CSG</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">will be subject to the restricted land
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;">Prescribed activities </span></span></i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;">are now prohibited on restricted land,
whereas for 25 years since 1989 it has been entry to restricted land that
was prohibited.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prescribed activities include anything
conducted on the surface, or below the surface if it causes an impact such
as subsidence. That seems to mean exploration crews or prospectors can
drive or walk around restricted land and even camp on restricted land.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Construction and operation of pipelines is
exempt – this seems to mean a CSG operator could ignore the restriction
and build and operate gas or water gathering lines through restricted land
regardless.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water facilities and stockyards are no
longer restricted land. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Permanent buildings - and a buffer around
them to be set by regulation - which are used for residence, school,
church, childcare hospital or library will be restricted land (but see
below re mining lease and petroleum lease applications).<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Land used for aquaculture, feedlot,
piggery, poultry shed or cemetery is restricted land.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A building used for business or other
purposes which is not easily relocated and not able to coexist with
resource activities is restricted land (I feel for anyone trying to
interpret that).<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a mining lease or petroleum lease
application area, a building or land is only restricted if it was being used
as at the date the lease application was lodged.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new
restricted land regime is complicated, inappropriate and ambiguous. It could
lead to significant damage or loss through disturbance of stock and stress on
landholders and their families and staff. Its complexity will baffle and
frustrate exploration crews and landholders and give rise to disputes as they
try to interpret it in their day to day operations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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aim to convince explorers and prospectors to voluntarily remain bound by the original
restricted land scheme – that is, use every reasonable means at their disposal
to press every explorer entering for preliminary activities and every
prospector to sign a brief agreement specifying:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- no entry within a 50 metre radius of any water points (whether artificial or natural); and <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For advanced activities where a conduct and compensation agreement is required,
use whatever means of persuasion are available to gain acceptance </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">of those same no entry provisions.</span></span></span> </div>
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