Monday, August 11, 2008

Oil shale mining on the Great barrier reef

Loose thoughts by Bjorn Landfeldt

There is a proposal by a company called Queensland Energy Resources Ltd (QERL) to mine and process the McFarlane oil shale deposit in the Whitsundays, Queensland, 8 km south of Proserpine, 12 km southwest of Airlie Beach, partially overlying the listed Goorganga Wetlands and adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef and Conway National Parks. I wonder how anyone can come up with the idea to threaten a reef that is already under such stress.

There is a petition to stop this here http://www.saveourforeshore.com/petition-oilshale.shtml

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