RURAL tensions about the sprawling mining and exploration boom have not been allayed by Premier Anna Bligh's move to restrict mining activities around regional centres and towns with a population of 1000 or more.
Talk around the traps is of a cynical move on the part of the State Government with an eye on winning votes in urban areas in the upcoming election.
Small townships like Jondaryan, Felton and Tara, plus a raft of Darling Downs communities, are exempt from the new initiative which follows farming group concerns over the eight criteria set out in Labor's strategic cropping lands (SCL) policy.
Earlier this week, Premier Bligh said no mining exploration will be allowed in and around urban areas of Queensland, including regional centres such as Ipswich, Toowoomba, Beaudesert, Rockhampton, Mackay and St George. Read More
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