The Lock the Gate Alliance believes the only new and substantial environmental protections emerging from yesterday's 'green corridor' announcement by Premier, Anna Bligh, is for the far western rivers.
Everything else would seem to be recycling old projects and staying well clear of any mining tenements.
Lock the Gate Alliance president, Drew Hutton, said the biggest spin was contained in sections 3 and 4 of the Premier's four-section plan.
"The descriptions of the corridor are quite vague, and I would be keen to be corrected, but it seems that section 3 of the plan follows the Great Dividing Range south from the Carnarvon National Park.
"This would take the corridor through three already existing national parks - Carnarvon, Expedition and Palmgrove - then on to the Barakula State Forest which has been planned as a national park for the last five years at least.
"The other undoubted attraction for the government in this section is that it does not encompass any coal or coal seam gas mining tenements.
Drew Hutton - Lock The Gate Alliance
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