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Iceland’s renewable energy boom
May 12, 2019
Iceland is an interesting country. It has a population of 340,000 people, about the same as the population of Mackay and Townsville combined. Its land area is just more than the Mackay-Isaac-Whitsunday Region. The...
Read More ShareLand of the fair go
May 03, 2019
As Australians we pride ourselves on being egalitarian, the land of the fair go. Yet there’s nothing egalitarian about the treatment that Indigenous Australians receive. Apart from poorer health, incarceration, life expectancy and income...
Read More ShareNew water laws will protect the reef
May 02, 2019
For decades Queensland’s sugar cane farmers have been throwing money into the creeks and rivers that flow past their properties. That’s the money spent on excess fertiliser that runs off during heavy rain and...
Read More ShareAdani and the Black Throated Finch
May 02, 2019
Adani’s Carmichael mine in the Galilee Basin, central Queensland is a long way from receiving all of the approvals it needs before it will be ready to break ground. One of the key hurdles...
Read More ShareAdani job claims are only false hope
April 26, 2019
Adani has made many claims about the number of jobs its mine will generate. They have often said that the mine will create ten thousand jobs. Last year at a mining industry forum in...
Read More ShareAfter 27 years Michael steps aside
January 18, 2019
One of the reasons for the success of Mackay Conservation Group over more than three decades is that we have had talented and stable leadership. For the past 27 years Dr Michael Williams,...
Read More ShareWhy Adani is wrong in saying they did not pollute the Reef and Caley Valley Wetlands during Cyclone Debbie
September 03, 2018
Adani has repeatedly claimed it did nothing wrong in relation its management of Abbot Point coal terminal during Cyclone Debbie. The reality is that Adani did cause pollution. Here are the facts: Temporary Emissions...
Read More ShareRTI docs show Adani & Qld govt knew Reef pollution at Abbot Pt likely
August 10, 2018
A Right To Information request by Mackay Conservation Group (MCG) has resulted in the release of previously secret documents which reveal that both Adani and the Queensland Government were well aware that water, containing...
Read More ShareWalk for Water
June 18, 2018
A huge crowd marched through the main street of Mackay in the Walk for Water. Our government needs to listen to Queenslanders, and rule out wasting our water on Adani's mega-mine. With over half...
Read More ShareThe ecological value of bats
April 16, 2018
The Mackay region is lucky enough to have over 30 bat species call the area home. In the urban areas, the most common bat you’ll see is the Black Flying-Fox (Pteropus alecto), which is...
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