We believe Australia needs to take urgent steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition our economy to a low carbon future based on 100% renewable energy.

Following the Jan-Feb 2008 floods in the upper Nogoa River, levee banks at Ensham Mine, 35km east of Emerald, were overtopped and river water flooded into open cut pits at the mine... The TWG has now changed into the Fitzroy Water Quality Advisory Group (FWQAG) which will help manage water quality issues in the Fitzroy River basin. Our main role is to ensure that the recommendations of the two reports, etc, are implemented fully and not buried by the bureaucracy.

Although we have put up with the environmental impacts of coal mining in Queensland in the past, the forecast boom in mining development will create a massive degradation of the environment which is no longer acceptable.

CCC believe that the scale of the plan is still over-the-top and inappropriate for this island. Even though Tower claim that it is only "a quarter" of the size of the original plan, it still includes - a 250 room hotel, 300 apartments, 750 villas, 250 berth marina, one 18 hole golf course, etc.

Capricorn Conservation Council is horrified that a Chinese coal carrier Shen Neng 1 has run aground near Great Keppel Island. We can be certain that this is a sign of things to come.