Hell's-Bell's and buckets of ... Here is a cut 'n paste of the...

Hell's-Bell's and buckets of ... Here is a cut 'n paste of the names of the mining projects currently with submissions of their EIS's...

Mining projects
Bell Creek Nornico project
Bloodwood Creek Underground Coal Gasification project
Boundary Hill Mine extension project
Cameby Downs Expansion project
Cannington life extension project
Cloncurry Copper project
Codrilla Coal Mine project
Drake Coal project
Dugald River base metals Mine project
Eaglefield Expansion project
East End No.5 Mine project
Einasleigh copper project
Ellensfield Coal Mine project
Ellimatta project
Felton Mine and Dimethyl Ether Pilot Plant project
Foxleigh Plains project
Grosvenor Coal Mine project
Kunioon project
Middlemount Coal Stage Two project
Millennium Expansion project
Mount Oxide project
Mungana Gold Open Pit Development project
Paradise South Phosphate project
Pisolite Hills project
Rocklands copper project
Washpool Coal Mine project
Wateranga project
Woori project

Again I ask, what is the hold-up? If it's a staff shortage, then why doesn't the government just employ more staff! Hell, we have a nation of taxpayer's held to ransom by a state gov't department. Combined, how much revenue would this list of companies generate?,and this is just the mining lease applicant's. Theree are the Gas and Petroleum one's as well!
Didn't some mention that CDU had a delegation of "shinies" at the site? What's the go there? Did anything come of it or was it a show the flag session and just waste more of WM's precious time. I imagined that those sort of visits end up giving some sort of rubber stamp to the project... then the party's celebrate with a XXXX or two and head on to their various destination's in the big smoke, have a belt and scratch around, a bit of a talk about their "Been-there" stories to the juniors around the tea lady's urn, give the file to one of the juniors to sit on and organise their next site visit. Is that how it works? Or was that in the old day's?