The Liberal National Party (LNP) has promised to protect nature refuges from mining, but it's unclear if this would affect the party's biggest bankroller, mining magnate Clive Palmer.
The LNP says - in a response to a questionnaire put to all parties by anti-coal seam gas mining group Lock the Gate Alliance - that if it wins government it will not allow mining in areas of high conservation value.
Lock the Gate Alliance founder Drew Hutton said this includes nature refuges.
This puts the LNP on a collision course with Mr Palmer, whose Waratah Coal project proposal will "obliterate" the Bimblebox Nature Refuge, near Alpha in the Galilee Basin, he says.
"The LNP have said they'll protect areas of high conservation and that is what Bimblebox is," Mr Hutton said.
"They would find it difficult to argue that it's not.
Business Spectator
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