MINING LEASE REFORMS TO STREAMLINE APPROVALS AND STAMP OUT LAWFARE

BRISBANE, Queensland, Sept. 15 -- The Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet issued text of the following statement:

Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development

The Honourable Dale Last

* The Crisafulli Government has introduced legislation to deliver historic reforms to the archaic approvals process for mining leases and stamp out environmental lawfare. * Reforms will remove assessment duplication across mining lease and environmental authority applications and stop automatic referral of objections to Land Court. * TheCrisafulli Government is delivering certainty and streamlining approvals after the former Labor Government tried to bury the mining indus...