It's been a rough week for mining. First Alan Jones at the Press Club, and now the revelation that Clive Palmer's plans for a $1 billion open-cut coal mine in a Queensland nature reserve could be derailed by a local colony of black-throated finches.
Jones v Coal Seam Gas will be a case fought out in the court of popular opinion.
But Black Throated Finch v Noisy Miner will be a much more formal affair.
Anti-development arguments that are about people are much less comprehensively regulated by the Federal Government than are arguments about endangered species.
The Drum
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