Glencore wants to clear 680 hectares of land, including 600ha of koala habitat, to expand its Hail Creek mine west of Mackay. Campaign group Lock the Gate, the Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) and the Mackay Conservation Group have written to the federal environment minister, Murray Watt, to ask for a moratorium on project applications in the area
Plan to extend Queensland coalmine would bulldoze ‘critical’ koala habitat
Koala habitat would be destroyed by Glencore plan to expand Queensland coalmine
