Conservation groups say they're disappointed the Queensland Government has approved the state's third largest coal mine, because of the threat it poses to koala habitats
QRC chief executive Ian Macfarlane said the project would deliver a significant number of job opportunities to those who had lost work through the pandemic.
"It's been very important to the economy of Queensland and jobs, that the resources industry has been able to maintain that level of employment and support when other industries are crumbling around it.""That's royalty taxes that will go and pay for doctors, nurses, teachers, hospitals, roads, schools — the things the Queensland needs and it's the reward that comes back to all Queenslanders, wherever they live, from having a project like this," he said.
The ACF said the Olive Downs mine was a "short-term solution" to unemployment rates in comparison to developing a green alternative.
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