Categories: Shadow Minsterial
The LNP Opposition shares the concerns raised by AgForce that green groups are refusing to negotiate with famers in good faith about the future of Queensland’s vegetation management framework. Shadow Minister for Natural Resources Andrew Cripps said, AgForce’s statement about green groups believing they had Queensland Labor Ministers in their pocket was unfortunately, nothing new. […]
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Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said he had warned farmers in the lead up to the state election in January 2015 that Labor and the Greens had done another election deal that would undermine their productivity and tie them up in red tape and now it was coming to pass. Mr Cripps said the Environment Minister, […]
Categories: Shadow Minsterial
Natural Resources Minister Anthony Lynham has caught himself in a vegetation management trap, stuck between a Labor election commitment to reverse the LNP’s legislative changes and a supposedly ‘unfettered’ stakeholder roundtable process. Shadow Natural Resources Minister Andrew Cripps said questions asked at recent estimates hearings showed Minister Lynham could not explain how he would reconcile […]
Categories: Shadow Minsterial
The Palaszczuk Labor Government has made a mess of the release of additional volumes of water entitlements from the Gulf Water Resource Plan, while adopting contradictory processes for two major green field irrigation projects in the Flinders and Gilbert River catchments. Shadow Minister for State Development and Natural Resources, Andrew Cripps, drew attention to the […]
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State Treasurer and Member for Mulgrave Curtis Pitt, has submitted a desperate defence of the Palaszczuk Government’s handling of the future of the Port of Cairns (CP, 4 August, 2015). Mr Pitt’s extraordinary claim – that he has worked hard to ensure future development opportunities for the Port of Cairns can be accommodated – is […]
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Labor is dragging the chain on the approval process to expand the Abbot Point Port, making it more of an administrate threat to the Adani Coal project than the recent Federal Government’s technical issue. Shadow Minister for State Development and Mines Andrew Cripps said Labor’s unnecessary intervention in the application process had significantly delayed the […]
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Political pressure from the LNP and various stakeholders in North Queensland has seen the Palaszczuk Labor Government forced into a backflip and provide a clear regulatory pathway for the proposed Integrated Food and Energy Development (IFED) project in the Etheridge Shire. Shadow Minister for Northern Development, Andrew Cripps, said he was pleased to see the […]
Categories: Shadow Minsterial
North Queensland based Labor Senator Jan McLucas recently lamented the rivalry between Cairns and Townsville and called for more cooperation between these two great northern cities (Cairns Post, 25/5/2015) – I agree. Many politicians from Townsville and Cairns, of all levels and persuasions, have wasted time on it. It’s a pity Senator McLucas’ article, having […]
Categories: Ministerial
LNP Shadow Minister for Mines Andrew Cripps has questioned the suitability of rogue Labor MP for Mirani MP Jim Pearce to chair a parliamentary inquiry into FIFO arrangements in the resources sector. Mr Cripps said Mr Pearce’s capacity to chair the parliamentary inquiry impartially was in doubt after he delivered an extended rant against mining […]
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Labor has continued to take credit for the hard work done by the former LNP Government to encourage investment in the struggling exploration sector and grow the resources industry in Queensland. Shadow Minister for Mines Andrew Cripps said today’s announcement of 16 successful projects under the Collaborative Drilling Program, were funded as part of the […]
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