RJ<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@RichForrest2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RichForrest2</span></a></span> thanks for Sharing! The lack of political will to take responsibility and action is mind-blowing 🤯 these fossil fuel corps are playing the numbers game to bypass the need for an environmental impact statement, and then doing the same thing next door!? QLD politicians meanwhile ignoring the problem - looking at you, Steven Miles, do your job FFS - because the coal is not going to add to 'our' emissions... except that it's the same bloody atmosphere! 🌏 Planet destroying bureaucratic dumbfuckery at its best. At least it's being called out now, but the fact that it has gotten this far is infuriating. I'm longing for a world where disastrous proposals like these get nipped in the bud 🙅</p><p>From the article: <br>"The mine is one of several applications that has been able to sidestep the EIS requirement as it is under the 2m tonne annual threshold.</p><p>Vitrinite will mine 1.95m tonnes of coal each year or up to 13.5m tonnes over a nine-year period.</p><p>The company has already been granted approval for an adjacent mine, Vulcan, in March 2022 that will also produce 1.95m tonnes each year."</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/climateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateBreakdown</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/qld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qld</span></a> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/qldpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qldpol</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/stevenMiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stevenMiles</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/coalmines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coalmines</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/keepItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keepItInTheGround</span></a><br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/vulcanSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vulcanSouth</span></a></p>