The recommendation of refusal by President Fleur Kingham of the QLD Land Court stands unchallenged now that Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal has withdrawn its application for a judicial review in the Supreme Court. See The Guardian article on this most welcome news!

We now await the decisions of the Minister and DES on the mining lease and environmental authority… but we are hopeful.  For once King Coal was inextricably linked to climate change, and did not get to rule over Nature and Human Rights. Coal has been put in its place.