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Queensland Premier Newman announces his Uranium Mining Cheer Squad

Uranium Implementation Committee announced The Premier Campbell Newman has announced the membership of the Uranium Implementation Committee which will establish a best-practice framework for the recommencement of uranium mining in Queensland. “Uranium exports will earn Queensland tens of billions of dollars over the next two decades, providing thousands of jobs across rural and regional areas,” Mr Newman said.

“The State Government has established an Implementation Committee to look at the orderly development and operation of a recommenced uranium mining and export industry in Queensland.”

The Implementation Committee will be chaired by Central Highlands Councillor, Paul Bell AM, who has just retired after serving eight years as President of the Local Government Association of Queensland.

“Cr Bell has spent decades representing the mining communities of Central Queensland and understands what it takes to build a successful resources industry which benefits everybody” Mr Newman said.

Other members of the Uranium Implementation Committee will be:

·         Noeline Ikin, CEO Northern Gulf Resource Management Group

·         Frances Hayter, Environment Director, Queensland Resources Council

·         Dr Geoff Garrett, Queensland Government Chief Scientist and

·         Dan Hunt, Acting Director- General, Department of Natural
Resources and Mines

·         Indigenous leader, Warren Mundine, Director of the Australian Uranium Association and a former ALP National President (subject to final confirmation).

Mr Newman also released the Terms of Reference of the Uranium Implementation Committee which will be available on the Department of Natural Resources and Mines website.
tatements.qld.gov.au/Statement/2012/10/30/uranium-implementation-committee-announced

November 7, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, Queensland