The Queensland Government has announced plans to create a new category of restricted land called “Strategic Cropping Land” which bans all mining or development.
The Carbon Sense Coalition has lodged a submission opposing the proposal. See: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coal-or-crops.pdf [PDF, 581 KB]
If Queensland’s politicians were really concerned about food security they would not have sterilised millions of acres of grazing land under scrub clearing bans, conservation zones, heritage areas, wild rivers, national parks and other anti-farming bans.
Nor would they have encouraged the diversion of cropping land from producing food for humans to producing ethanol for cars; or used false global warming dogma to justify covering food producing land with feral forests of carbon credit trees.
It seems that the Queensland government has a secret plan to destroy Queensland’s primary industries, all motivated by suicidal Green hostility to the production of carbon fuels and foods, mainly coal, cattle and sheep.
Queensland has always relied on both mining and farming. To undermine mining on the pretence of helping food production is false and destructive.
This is not about crops or food – it is just another chapter in the Green war on carbon fuels whose goal is to prevent development of new coal mines and power stations.
The hidden tragedy of this silly policy is that we will never know which protected paddock is underlain by a treasure house of coal or minerals.
With modern machinery and knowledge of soils and plants it would be very easy to replace the food lost in the tiny area of crop land likely to be disturbed by coal mining.
The choice is not “Coal or Crops”.
A sensible policy is “Coal AND Crops”.
More:
- The Rise of the Greenshirts
- More Green Aggression
- Don’t get Kloppered by the Carbon Tax
- Bob Carter and the ABC’s Science Show
Read the newsletter: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/coal-and-crops.pdf [PDF, 90 KB]
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