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PLEASE NOTE THAT PERIOD 22 FEBRUARY TO 4 MARCH, WE WILL BE MOVING OFFICES AND OUR OFFICE LINES WILL BE UNAVAILABLE.  PLEASE DIRECT ALL CALLS TO OUR MOBILE NUMBERS LISTED BELOW. David Breese – CEO – 0418 149 235 Stacey Kent – Marketing Manager – 0488 770408


Solar Dawn team to provide update

14th February 2012 | The Chronicle Original Source – AAP THE Solar Dawn Consortium is holding its second round of community information sessions to give residents and businesses an update on the solar thermal power plant to be built near Chinchilla. The consortium is continuing to advance the development and MORE


Farms locked away from miners

  by: Staff Writer From: The Courier-Mail January 31, 2012 12:00AM Queensland’s best agricultural land is officially protected from some forms of mining. The Strategic Cropping Land legislation came into effect on Monday. The laws will take away the right to develop new open-cut mines in the strategic cropping land MORE


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Clean Technology Programs

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USQ and RDA join forces

5th December 2011 | The Chronicle THE University of Southern Queensland and Regional Development Australia are joining forces to identify the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the wellbeing of the Darling Downs and south-west Queensland. A team of four internationally recognised experts will be travelling around the region to meet MORE


SURAT BASIN CORPORATION HOLDS AGM

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Protecting farmland

There is a growing concern that prime quality food growing farm lands need to be protected. They must be conserved and managed for the longer term.

Strategic Cropping Land

The Strategic Cropping Land framework recognises that Queensland’s best cropping land is an important resource for growing food and fibre and supports economic growth for regional communities. The framework indicates that the state’s best cropping land is currently subject to a range of competing land uses from agriculture, mining and urban development. It sees that it is important to find a balance between our agricultural, resource and development industries and minimise land use conflicts by assessing potential impacts of development on strategic cropping land

Protecting Landholder Rights

There is ongoing discussion about the importance of balancing the interests and sustainable growth of the agriculture and resource sectors. Both industries, and the jobs they create, are vital to the economy and regional communities. There are a number of issues in protecting landholder rights.

Land Access

New land access laws came into effect in Queensland on 29 October 2010.

The new laws balance the interests and sustainable growth of both mining and farming sectors and relate to resource companies seeking access to private land to undertake exploration and development activities.

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ABC Lateline 2 August 2011 

Lateline is joined by Ross Dunn from the Australian Petroleum Producers and Exploration Association and Drew Hutton from the Lock the Gate Alliance.

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