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Former Mackay MP to protest major mining company

Ex-miner to take to the streets to rally support from international mining company

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15th Feb. 2019 8:02 AM

Hay Point Coal Terminal. Photo: Tony Martin / Daily Mercury

Inquiry wants a black lung buffer zone to protect people

BUFFER zones between Hay Point coal terminals and homes would better protect those residents from black lung and other...

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04th Oct. 2017 5:10 AM

The inquiry into black lung wants the government to review buffer zones for communities like that at Hay Point which live near coal facilities.

Coal researchers meet in Mackay

Mining industry experts gathered at CQUni for two-day conference

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06th July 2017 7:07 AM

Chairman of the BBGG, David Green, at CQUni Mackay for a conference on coal industry research.

'Thousands' could be affected by black lung

A push is on to bring in laws requiring mandatory testing for Pneumoconiosis, or "black lung”

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30th May 2017 4:05 AM

Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Select Committee members Whitsunday MP Jason Costigan, Southern Downs MP Lawrence Springborg and Bundamba MP Jo-Ann Miller with Mackay MP Julianne Gilbert at the MECC where findings from an inquiry into black lung disease were presented.

"We've real concerns": Anger at coal dust at Ipswich station

Ipswich Station is the only place in the country where uncovered coal trains pass through an enclosed passenger...

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24th May 2017 5:05 PM

CRUNCH TIME: Jim Prentice, Clean Air Ipswich, wants action on coal dust.

Coal miner struck by lung disease

Another Queensland coal miner has been diagnosed after inhaling excessive coal dust on the job

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28th April 2017 11:04 AM

"Coal miners go to work, not to die, and this has dragged on long enough.”

Public health fears over lack of air quality monitoring data

Mackay and Moranbah each have one station that reports air pollution

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16th March 2017 4:03 AM

LACK OF DATA: Abbot Point, the coal terminal set to ramp up production when Adani exports coal, currently has no publicly available air quality data.

Tugboat workers told to test for black lung

Inquiry into black lung moves from pit to port

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08th March 2017 12:03 PM

Tugboat worker for 33 years Kevin Paskins at the Black Lung inquiry.

Coal dust health worries for Ipswich train commuters

Group wants air quality monitors inside Ipswich terminal to measure health impact

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01st Nov. 2016 2:11 PM

MORE MONITORING: Jim Prentice, head of community group CLIPS, wants air quality monitoring equipment installed inside Ipswich train station.

Did black lung go under the radar?

BLACK lung disease in Queensland could have gone under the radar for decades, an inquiry heard on Friday.

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14th Oct. 2016 2:10 PM

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