Bimblebox is under imminent threat and urgently needs your help.
In late 2019 Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal applied to the Queensland Government for a Mining Lease and Environmental Authority, two of the final steps required before approval of mining on Bimblebox Nature Refuge. The Bimblebox Alliance (TBA) had only until December 2nd, 2019 to object to the Land Court of Queensland.
But due to a technical issue, the process was restarted and the new deadline was April 3rd, 2020. We now await a Directions Hearing date. The EDO will represent TBA as well as our fellow objectors, Youth Verdict, a group of young people concerned by the potential breach of their human rights that this Galilee Coal Project could pose.
Wildlife have rights too, and we are gathering all our resources to fight to protect the flora and fauna of Bimblebox. It was always incredibly contradictory that a mining exploration licence was granted over a dedicated Refuge recognised by both Federal and State governments because it was such a significant large tract of intact vegetation of high biodiversity values.
Bimblebox Nature Refuge is beautiful – and invaluable: an 8,000 hectare property, 95% uncleared, in the largely cleared Desert Uplands Bioregion of Central West Queensland, in the south Galilee Basin. It is living proof that sustainable grazing and high conservation values can successfully co-exist.
The Bimblebox Alliance believe we have social licence and moral right on our side, and now we need to prove that we also have the legal right to exist. To do that in court is costly.
We need as much financial help as possible to fund this battle. Can you help?