Anglo Coal the Major Sponsor of Qld Mining Health and Safety Conference

There are a couple of interesting short articles in the Australian newspaper this morning about Qld Coal industry.

The first how the Qld Treasurer told the QRC about the Royalty increases 10 days before he told Minister Stewart.

The second about Anglo Coal

CANARY IN THE COALMINE

Staying down the mines, the embattled Anglo American is the major sponsor for the annual Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference, this year held at the (also controversial) Star casino on the Gold Coast.

Anglo knows a fair bit about health and safety. You might recall five miners were terribly burned in a gas explosion at Anglo’s Grosvenor underground coal mine in central Queensland in May 2020, after years of warnings about dangerously high methane levels.

At Moranbah North, another Anglo operation, a worker died after suffering head injuries in a lifting accident in March.

And just last week, another worker at Moranbah North was helicoptered to hospital when his foot was caught in a steel door. That incident is being investigated.

Anglo says it takes safety seriously and has implemented everything it has had to since the board of inquiry into the Grosvenor disaster.

But there are questions about what the rest of the industry has done in response to the explosion.

Mines Minister Scott Stewart will next week order the parliamentary Transport and Resources Committee run the ruler over whether the sector has do

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/feeding-the-chooks/dangers-everywhere-for-pollies-at-the-ekka/news-story/08e1b170b5e17e0221dd057ddda68109