Media Releases
MEDIA ALERT: Clean Air Qld to host coal dust community BBQ event in Brisbane
May 08, 2015
Clean Air Queensland (CAQ) will host a community BBQ on the Wynnum foreshore tomorrow to highlight the issue of toxic coal dust in homes, schools and workplaces. Wynnum residents are living with coal pollution emitted from the coal stockpile at the Brisbane Port and...
Read MoreClean Air Qld invites mining industry to community event on coal dust
May 08, 2015
Instead of trying to “shoot the messenger”, the Qld Resources Council should support community efforts to keep Brisbane free of coal dust pollution, says Clean Air Queensland (CAQ). CAQ, over several months, monitored coal dust pollution from trains passing through densely-populated areas of Brisbane. ...
Read MoreGreg Hunt must reject Watermark mine
May 08, 2015
With the final advice being provided to him by the Independent Expert Scientific Committee, Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt now has until 9 July to refuse approval for the Watermark open cut coal mine on the Liverpool Plains, says Lock the Gate Alliance.
Read MoreMining industry toddler tantrum should not sway Palaszczuk
May 07, 2015
Lock the Gate Alliance says the mining industry’s hysterical reaction to reasonable remarks by Qld MP and Member for Mirani, Jim Pearce, about the damage caused by mining, should be treated like all toddler tantrums and ignored.
Read MoreClean Air Queensland releases ‘Health Hazards in our Suburbs’ report
May 07, 2015
Clean Air Queensland (CAQ) today released the results of an air quality monitoring study that show alarming rates of pollution in Brisbane associated with dust from coal trains travelling to the Port of Brisbane. The study - Health Hazard in our Suburbs – shows coal train...
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