A public consultation process for a new Queensland coal mine has not received a single submission from any environmental group despite its plans to clear 55 square kilometres of koala habitat and 11 wetlands.
Queensland’s independent coordinator-general approved the Bowen Basin mine proposed by Pembroke Resources, which will be about the same size as Adani and will clear koala habitat the size of Sydney Harbour.
The Australian Conservation Foundation said they are under-resourced and are instead targeting thermal coal mine projects, rather than the new mine which will mine for metallurgical coal used in steel production.