Press release – 1 August, 2017August 2, 2017: Freedom of Information requests have revealed details of the Queensland government’s “transparent policy framework” on Adani is being kept secret with officials asking for help calculating the benefits of the a royalty holiday after its announcement earlier this year.Documents supplied to
The Guardian
are heavily redacted and appear to both show that public servants attempted to find an economic justification for the government’s “royalty holiday” to Adani after it was issued, and to confirm that the arrangement was made specifically for Adani.
“Trying to find a justification for a royalty holiday after it has been granted is like a bank doing background checks after giving someone a home loan,” Greenpeace Australia Pacific campaigner Alix Foster Vander Elst said.
“The Australian public deserve better and the government must immediately release all of the documents showing the full process of their allegedly ‘transparent policy framework’.”
Greenpeace Australia Pacific are calling for the Queensland government to make good on its promise that there would be no royalty holiday for the Adani Carmichael mine and to release the full details of their framework.
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