A bit of sarcasm there in the heading :)
Thing is it shows the hypocrisy of calling a witch hunt commission against unions evidence of systemic corruption, that "corrupt" money being donated to the Labor party, when at the same time the Lieberals accepted $25,000 from a fossil fuel industry company after it was charged with one of the biggest environmental breaches ever in Australia.
If you're talking about corruption, there it is.
Anti-gas industry protest group Lock The Gate called on the Liberal party to return the “tainted donations” it received from Linc after it was charged.
Comment was sought from the Liberal party.
The environment department has alleged in court documents that Linc attempted to hide the plant’s problems from government officials in 2012, after persistent leaks of toxic gas into the air and groundwater over the preceding three years.
The department alleged four government workers were treated in hospital for suspected gas poisoning from the Hopeland site.
George Bender – the activist whose suicide last year after a decade-long battle with gas companies brought the issue of farmer land rights to national attention – was among the landholders near Chinchilla warned by the government not to dig below two metres because of the risk of gas explosions.
Despite the Linc case and the earlier prosecution of Cougar Energy, which was fined $75,000 for releasing a carcinogenic chemical into groundwater near Kingaroy, the underground coal gasification (UCG) industry continues to seek a foothold in Queensland.
Carbon Energy has revealed in a statement to the Australian stock exchange it was seeking approval from the Queensland government to prepare an environmental impact statement for another UCG project near Chinchilla.
Lock The Gate called on governments to ban what it said was a “dangerous, polluting industry”. The Guardian
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