How Low will RSHQ go to protect the secret interests of its Ministers and others in the Palaszczuk so called “ALP” State Government?
I constantly ask myself the question about how low RSHQ will go to protect itself from any external scrutiny by Public Service and Parliamentary Oversight how low will they go.
However its statements about the death of Mr. Chris Goodwin on Father’s Day, September 3, when the 4WD he was driving collided with a a AB Triples combination Road Train on Saraji Road near Dysart at 4:30 am.
The road train is reported to be rated for 140 tonnes of unwashed coal
RSHQ has sunk to a new low with what its spokeswomen has said to Mackay Mercury Reporter Janessa Ekert yesterday.
- The mining watchdog says it is liaising with police as the forensic crash unit investigates the cause of the two fatalities involving mine workers.
- A Resources Safety and Health Queensland spokeswoman said early investigations by RSHQ found no link between the tragedies and mining operations.
- “If the QPS determine that factors arising from mining operations were involved, then RSHQ will further investigate,” she said.
- “Road deaths involving mine workers have the capacity to be counted as mine incidents if they were the direct result of mining operations.
- “All Queensland mine sites should have fatigue management and traffic safety policies in place.”
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/bowen-basin-crash-sparks-call-for-fatals-to-be-treated-as-mine-deaths/news-story/87c7356ce874c3bdc02eef39075ffe62
I cannot believe they say that. It is all about protecting multiple ministers including Resource Minister Scott Stewart and the Deputy Premier Steven Miles and the whole supposedly ALP Government of Queen Annastacia, and of course RSHQ itself
What the anonymous RSHQ spokeswomen states in sentences 2, 3 and 4 is ridiculous for multiple reasons directly related to the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999.
I assume the spokeswomen has never sat for any of the Mandatory Board of Examiners Mining Law Exams or the Panel Board oral exam.
If so the spokeswomen would have automatically failed, and got told your answers are so bad you will not be granted the usual 2nd and 3rd attempt. “You have to go and redo the courses and assessment successfully, get more practical experience and come back in a few years”
Resources Minister Stewart and his Department as well as Deputy Premier Miles (Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning and Minister Assisting the Premier on Olympic and Paralympic Games).
Resources Minister Scott Stewart said the new Vulcan coal mine was the first mining project for Vitrinite.
“The project shows ongoing investor confidence in Queensland’s world-class resources, infrastructure and skilled workforce,” he said.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/vulcan-metallurgical-coal-mine-approved-near-moranbah/news-story/f39a626d91f5184035cfc5755ab51dea
Both Ministers Departments were involved from the first application for a Mining Lease by Vitrinite Pty Ltd a privately owned coal mining start up.
Vitrinite Pty Ltd and other private companies associated with its Vulcan and Vulcan South Projects make some interesting.
I still have to print them all out so it is easy to compare private company to private company, but let me say there are very few limbs on the private family tree.
Vitrinite Pty Ltd Primary Holding Company other Vitrinites
ML 700060 Resource authority public report
Both Ministers Departments signed off on all the necessary approvals including trucking 4.6 Million tonnes of unwashed coal from Vitrinite Vulcan Mine over 3 years using up to AB Triples combinations and consists of up to 50 movements per day.
“Road use approvals have been obtained through local council and the state authorities thorough notifiable road use agreements, backed by detailed traffic and pavement impacts assessments.
“Road users should expect minor delays.” according to Vitrinite
https://vitrinite.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Community_Notice_Road_Use.pdf
Not only been approved by a State Labor Government; the very same Labor Government reached a commercial in confidence deal allowing Vitrinite to use the inadequate, long term under resourced accident prone roads of the the Central Highlands Isaac Council to transport the export only coking coal .
The State Labor Government with Resource Minister Scott Stewart one of the principal stakeholder Ministers, then helped Vitrinite even more. They allowed these B triple road trains to have a raised upper legal speed limit of 100 km/h, up from 90km/h.
I am not sure what the extra stopping distance is required for the extra speed.
Let alone the danger posed especially by the movement of the last trailer in the road train
From 9 September 2022, B-triple road train combinations are permitted to travel at speeds of up to 100 km/h,
This is the very same Labor Party who are committed both at State and National level to wiping out the export and domestic thermal coal industry and coal fired power stations by 2030 in part and by 2050 in full
There is something deeply troubling and rotten about the corrupted process that the Qld State Labor Government has given Vitrinite (a privately owned coal mining start up), with for its unique speedy treatment in granting of its Mining Lease and Permits Then the same Government reached signed agreement with Vitrinite to truck 2 Million tonnes of unwashed coal per year over the Central Highlands Roads for “Bulk Testing.”
How especially did Resources Minister Scott and it seems Steven Miles the Deputy Premier (as well Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning) decide that everything was compliant and and above board?
You have to know something about how and why you approved it!
After all 2 Central Queensland residents are now dead due to your decisions to allow these AB Triples combinations to cart up to 140 tonnes of unwashed coal on public roads.
