Birriah elders accuse Shine Energy of using Indigenous links to promote coal-fired power

Exclusive: Shine Energy, which has proposed a new plant at Collinsville in north Queensland, describes itself as a traditional owner company'

The company proposing a coal-fired power station at Collinsville in north Queensland, Shine Energy, is promoting itself as a representative of Birriah traditional owners without having consulted their formal native title body, a Birriah elder has said.

Shine Energy - which has been promised $3.3m by the federal government to conduct a feasibility proposal on the controversial power station - describes itself as a traditional owner company".