Coal Mining Industry, Premier Beattie has done a flip-flop
Premier Beattie has done a flip-flop before, when he commissioned a study on the effects of uranium mining on the coal mining industry in Queensland. When that report stated that there would be very little impact on the coal industry, Beattie said he would allow uranium mining if the Labour Party changed it’s policy at the April convention. Then he changed his opinion and said he would NOT allow uranium mining. So, given whatever influences there are in the political world, it appears Beattie will go with the most current flow