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Gijinkakun t1_j7pr6p4 wrote

Rejected? The people who proposed this should be locked up and examined for sone kind of mental defect, there’s no way a rational sane person would propose this.

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MrWrock t1_j7qd9jy wrote

Seems like a distraction attempt to me. Start off trying to build a coal mine on the reef (how does that even work, is it underwater?), then "compromise" by building it in some other ecologically sensitive area instead (which is where they wanted to build all along). The coal company gets its coal, the government gets to brag about how it stood up to Big Coal, and the earth gets fucked

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Aporkalypse_Sow t1_j7r1kgh wrote

It wasn't going to be in the ocean. It was close to the ocean and would have dumped crap into the freshwater that ran into the ocean. Essentially destroying the ecosystem on the coast and leading into the reef.

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ExactPanda t1_j7q1w1b wrote

They have to know their days are numbered, so I'm sure they're trying to squeeze out every last penny for their pockets

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Tenton_12 t1_j7so233 wrote

Proposed by none other than that scumbag "I'm rich and can do what I want !" Clive Trump Palmer

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