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"Mr Newman has said he opposes open-cut and, in some circumstances underground, coalmining on prime land on the Darling Downs west of Brisbane and in the "golden triangle" of grain growing in central Queensland. At the weekend he insisted an LNP government would have stopped a massive expansion of the New Hope open-cut mine, set to engulf the town of Acland near Toowoomba, and an underground operation proposed by Bandanna Energy on supposedly protected cropping land near Springsure in the state's central west.

If successful at the state election, due by next March, the LNP would "not allow . . . new projects to go forward in that prime cropping land", Mr Newman said.


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