Qld: Senator Joyce calls for farm protection from mining

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2009
Qld: Senator Joyce calls for farm protection from mining

Nationals Senate leader BARNABY JOYCE says governments must legislate to protect the
nations' prime agricultural land from mining.

Senator JOYCE will be among dozens of protesters expected to gather in a small southern
Queensland farming community today to protest a proposed new mine and power station.

The Queensland senator will talk to the farming community at Felton .. 30 kilometres
southwest of Toowoomba.

The Friends of Felton group has been fighting a proposal by Ambre Energy .. which has
applied for a mining lease for the first stage of their coal-to-liquids project.

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KEYWORD: FELTON (BRISBANE)

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