Daily Archives: 27 February, 2012

Wild Rivers policy another bid for green votes

PREMIER Anna Bligh has plucked eight random rivers to add to the Wild Rivers legislation list merely to meet the quota she promised green groups, Federal Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch says. Mr Entsch labelled Labor’s pledge to declare five more rivers on Cape York as being exempt from mining, damming and other development as…

Use dredge spoil to reclaim degraded land, not pollute the reef

FEDERAL Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch has called for dredge spoil to be used to reclaim degraded land as a solution to preventing the pollution of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The Federal Government is proposing that the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority collects up to $15 a cubic metre of dredge spoil…