Anna Blgh is up close and personal with CSG developer (photo courtesy Murray Ware)
How dare Queensland premier Anna Bligh question the legitimacy of the findings contained in a departmental coal seam gas assessment which was conducted by Dr Geoff Edwards, a former Queensland Department of Mines and Energy principal policy officer?
No, Bligh has not directly done so, but her scathing and unwarranted attack on federal senator Bill Heffernan, as the chairman of the senate inquiry into the impact of CSG development on the Murray-Darling basin, is nothing short of backstabbing Dr Edwards. This choreographed dummy-spit by Bligh, which is detailed in The Australian newspaper, proves beyond any doubt that Bligh and the Queensland Labor government has got a fanatical capitalist agenda to bludgeon Queensland with coal seam gas regardless of all the potential risks, which are currently being investigated by the senate committee headed by Heffernan. Given the Liberal National Party’s bipartisan support for CSG in Queensland, and refusal to back a full moratorium of the industry at the present time, one would have to be suspect that a likely change of government in Queensland next year won’t be putting the brakes on the sort of gung-ho and reckless CSG at all costs agenda which Queensland Labor is currently responsible for.
Independent Australia
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