Wallabies, coal and a town called Dingo: the battle over a Queensland mine proposal
by Joe Hinchliffe from Environment | The Guardian on (#60996)
A mining lease being sought for a proposed coalmine is being challenged in the state's land court
A bid to dig a coalmine on some of the last remaining habitat of an endangered wallaby near a central Queensland town called Dingo has been withdrawn.
But the mood among neighbouring landowners who opposed the Walton Coal proposal is far from celebratory.
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