Stuart Vaccaneo, Author at Qld Mining Crisis

BMA Peak Downs Mines Section 167 Directive suspending mobile plant operations. This cannot be a Force Majeure or Act of God. BMA cannot claim it is “completely beyond the parties’ control and they could not have prevented its consequences.”

September 14, 2023

The situation at Peak Downs has finally hit the media. Most operations have been suspended for 5 days now with no overburden or coal being mined and transported and the…

How Low will RSHQ go to protect the secret interests of its Ministers and others in the Palaszczuk so called “ALP” State Government?

September 8, 2023

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.…

The Vulcan Coal Project is a small scale, short term coal project located within a well-established coal mining region of Queensland. It is proposed on disturbed land immediately adjacent to a number of well-established large scale coal mining Projects. Based on this and limited social impacts determined to be associated with the Project, the need for broad community engagement has been determined not to be required.

September 6, 2023

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…

Contract Mineworker Fatal Crash Dysart 3rd Sept 2023. Resource Minister Scott Stewart, what is in the secret Commercial in Confidence Local Road Use Agreement with Vitrinite Coal Vulcan Mine

September 4, 2023

A Queensland Police Service statement said the 45-year-old man from Owens Creek, west of Mackay, died in Moranbah Hospital on Sunday just hours after a two vehicle crash at Dysart.…

Gareth Dodunski Coroners Court Findings. Fatality at Santos Fairview Lease Sunday, 23 June 2013.

September 1, 2023

The Coronial Findings were handed down yesterday over 10 years since Mr. Gareth Dodunski a Leasehand worker for the gas drilling contractor Saxon Energy Services Australia Pty Ltd. (Leasehand is…

Grosvenor Inquiry 28th March 2021. Dr. Basil Beamish – (Consultant: spontaneous combustion engaged by RSHQ

August 31, 2023

At the Grosvenor Inquiry Dr. Basil Beamish – (Consultant: spontaneous combustion engaged by RSHQ) is due to advance his theory that the Grosvenor explosion was due to Polyurethane resin spontaneously…

Moranbah North 26th March 2021. Meeting RSHQ Inspectors and Anglo MNC Representatives but still not the Ventilation Officer. The requirements to be met for re-entry with the SSE demonstrating an acceptable level of risk from spontaneous combustion were tabled for discussion.

August 31, 2023

On the 26 March 2021 , a meeting was held at the office of Resources Safety & Health Queensland (RSHQ) with Moranbah North Mine Representatives. The meeting was chaired by…

Moranbah North MRE 18th March 2021. Who is Mr. XXXX joined Inspector brown for the express purpose of discussing “Other Matters involving the Technical Reports / Technical Memorandums and the pending response to the current Directive given 21/02/21”

August 31, 2023

Inspector Brown inspected Moranbah North to collect samples of coal from the surface of the mine that are stated by MNC Technical Services Manager and the Washplant Manager to be…

RTI Ex CIOCM Peter Newman Anglo Grosvenor Spontaneous Combustion Mine Explosions May and June 2020 and Anglo Moranbah North Feb 20 Spontaneous Combustion Overpressure Event

August 29, 2023

Once again we are off to the RSHQ mysterious, magical, merry go round of any Right to Information request. This is to see why there is no Mine Record Entry…

Ex Chief Inspector Peter Newman was at Moranbah North on the 15th March. Why is there No Mine Record Entry by CIOCM Peter Newman?

August 24, 2023

Part of my RTI for Moranbah North was for Mine record entries made by RSHQ relating to the “overpressure" event at the Moranbah North Coal Mine on or around 20 February…