MCA welcomes Abbot’s backing of Carmichael project
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has welcomed comments from Prime Minister Tony Abbot, who said that projects such as the Carmichael coal mine and rail project should be favoured by Australians.
Abbot told The Australian that Australia would have a “real problem” if projects that strove to meet high environmental standards were knocked back.
“If a vital national project can be endlessly delayed, if the courts can be turned into a means of sabotaging projects which are striving to meet the highest environmental standards, then we have a real problem as a nation,” he was quoted by the paper as having said.
“We can’t become a nation of naysayers; we have to remain a nation that gives people a fair go if they play by the rules.”
MCA CEO Brendan Pearson said the Prime Minister’s warning about the risks posed to the Australian economy by ideologically motivated campaigns to halt mining projects, was timely.
“New projects must be treated on their merits, not held up by vexatious and incessant legal appeals lodged by a small band of antimining protestors funded by overseas interests.”
Pearson warned that future investment in the sector would be at risk if projects continued to face interminable delays.
“The gaming of the environmental approvals processes by a handful of protest groups now borders on the farcical. The inevitable dividend from continuing green sabotage is fewer jobs, lower real wages and lower living standards.”
The Federal Court this week overturned Environment Minister Greg Hunt’s approval of the process, causing further delays to the development of the $16.5-billion Carmichael project.
The federal Department of Environment would now take between six and eight weeks to compile a new report on the project, which would again be presented to Hunt for consideration.
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