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March 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Liberal National Party (LNP) has promised to protect nature refuges from mining, but it’s unclear if this would affect the party’s biggest bankroller, mining magnate Clive Palmer.
The LNP says – in a response to a questionnaire put to all parties by anti-coal seam gas mining group Lock the Gate Alliance – that if it wins government it will not allow mining in areas of high conservation value.
Lock the Gate Alliance founder Drew Hutton said this includes nature refuges.
This puts the LNP on a collision course with Mr Palmer, whose Waratah Coal project proposal will “obliterate” the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, near Alpha in the Galilee Basin, he says.
“The LNP have said they’ll protect areas of high conservation and that is what Bimblebox is,” Mr Hutton said.
“They would find it difficult to argue that it’s not.
“It’s in a region that has limited stocks of vegetation and species and the federal government has identified it as a high conservation area.”
Mr Palmer wants to build a massive open-cut coal mine and long-wall underground mining on the 8000ha privately-owned nature refuge that’s home to the endangered black-throated finch.
US filmmaker Mike O’Connell has made a documentary called Bimblebox that highlights landowners’ struggle against mining giants in Queensland and NSW.
It features Bimblebox co-owner Paola Cassoni’s battle against Mr Palmer’s mining exploration permits.
Mr Hutton said the LNP also promised to protect from mining the food bowls of the eastern Darling Downs, the Golden Triangle in central Queensland and the Scenic Rim, south of Brisbane.
While this was good news, he said the party only scored five out of 20 on the Lock the Gate scorecard, which asked political parties to commit to 20 policies to protect underground water, farming land, farmer’s rights and nature.
It included a 12-month moratorium on the coal seam gas industry to make way for scientific research into the impacts it will have on underground water and farming land.
Only the Queensland Greens and Katter’s Australian Party ticked all the boxes, Mr Hutton said.
He said Labor did not respond to the questionnaire despite being repeatedly reminded.
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