PERVERSE impacts of the Bligh Government's much-touted strategic cropping laws (SCLs) will strangle growth in agriculture and give the green light to rampant mining development.
The LNP member for Southern Downs, Lawrence Springborg and council officers briefed by the State Government say the very laws claimed to protect farming will instead pave the way for mining companies to expand even faster.
"It's exactly opposite to what Queenslanders expected and what we were promised," the former opposition leader said. "These laws, which were said to be pro-farming, are a black hood for farmers to wear while their businesses are destroyed.
"Farmers wanting to diversify by building a packing shed or a home-stay will be required to apply twice to State Government bureaucrats, spending $3998 and then up to $46,253," Mr Springborg said. "The SCL laws would require the Government to then reject any such project if it was located on strategic cropping land."
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