Labor plans to create a 2200km green belt spanning Queensland from Birdsville to the beach, but it can't guarantee acquiring the land or if it will be safe from mining.
Premier Anna Bligh announced the plan on the banks of the Thomson River near Longreach on Thursday, saying it would be "conservation on a continental scale".
She couldn't promise coal seam gas exploration would be prohibited in the refuge but said a review conducted in 12 months would consider a ban on mining and gas drilling.
Labor would not forcibly buy land to create the corridor, because some landholders were already using their land for conservation, Ms Bligh said.
"We don't believe that there is any need for it to be done on that sort of basis," she told reporters.
SMH
Editor's Note: The last promise by a Labor Leader went a little like this: "There will be no Carbon Tax Under the Government I lead". And we all know how that one ended up.
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Please note the sentence, "She couldnt promise coal seam gas exploration would be prohibted in the refuge....."
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Please note the sentence, "She couldnt promise coal seam gas exploration would be prohibted in the refuge....."
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