How will US mining companies access North West critical mining fields?
Fears a dilapidated runway will ground the economic powerhouse North West Minerals Province’s critical fly-in-fly-out workforce have been taken from Cloncurry to Canberra by Kennedy MHR Bob Katter in representations at the highest level for urgent government intervention.
Mr Katter said the iconic airport at Cloncurry, 1500km as the crow flies from Brisbane, fielded up to 1000 mining FIFO worker movements weekly to support the industry’s regrowth a century since the aerodrome’s historic establishment for the QANTAS mail service, expanding into the DC-3/Dakota aircraft requiring the tarmac’s last major upgrade in World War Two after Pearl Harbour’s bombing.
But the bitumen seal patch-up to reopen the North West Queensland mining gateway after the last cyclone’s major flood damage remains vulnerable to closure in the looming wet season – and the Cloncurry Shire Council bid to secure another $10 million for upgrades resilient to annual monsoons has been rejected by the Federal Government’s Regional Precincts and Partnerships Program.
With the council now warning the airport’s operational status could be downgraded in wet weather to restrict jet aircraft, amid recent reticence by Qantas pilots to take off in unseasonal rain ‘puddles’, Mr Katter said Mayor Greg Campbell was “dead right and I applaud his tenacity on this issue”.
“I am absolutely appalled and cannot believe that people in Canberra could be so stupid, given the whole of mining in the North West Minerals Province is dependent on that airport. The mining operations around Cloncurry are now very significant.
“I mean, the copper smelter at Mount Isa is being supplied by product out of the greater Cloncurry area. And there is no doubt the situation is very dangerous. That old pavement was built for DC3s – it was never, ever built to take the massive planes coming in now.”
With the rejection of Federal funding to double allocated Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements joint funding with the State Government for the project, Mr Katter has written to the Prime Minister to put the Government on notice that the major upgrades were “not a nice-to-have but a must-have”.
Mr Katter told the PM he had been “left with no choice but to contact you directly” after having already making “the strongest representations to the Ministers for lnfrastructure, Emergency Services and Local Government to try and resolve this issue”.
“And God help them if they don’t deliver because we’re sick of being forgotten out here,” he warned.
Mount Isa-based Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has previously warned of fly-in-fly-out mining work forces weakening western Queensland, by not supporting local communities with new housing and infrastructure.
He said when mining was opened up in the Central Queensland coalfields in the 70’s and 80’s a condition of a mining permit set by the government was to build suitable accommodation by establishing townships within the mining district.
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Speaking of flooding…
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[ https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZJCvm6FCLS03 ]
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One imagines the sensible thing might have been to scramble up the mountainside as fast as your little legs could carry you, rather than casually ambling out to the car and attempting to drive away down the valley road.
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Doubtful if anyone there on that video segment survived, chalk it up to a bona fide God-sent miracle if anyone lived at all.
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Meanwhile, here in Australia we have tens of thousands living on the streets and in their cars and under bridges while the sold-out paid-off foreign-owned kiddy-fiddling baby-eating blood-sucking pollies all give themselves a big fat eye-watering nose-bleeding pay rise every 18 months or so. Maybe we should be grateful that we only have stage-managed “crises” here in Australia. Yeah that’s right folks, EVERYTHING here in Australia is CHOREOGRAPHED according to the SCRIPTS written by our fake foreign-owned CORPORATE “government’s” OWNERS and MASTERS in LOCKSTEP with just about every other Western nation on the Planet, all directed toward the DEMOLITION of our country and our inevitable EXTINCTION.
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But over there in Nepal, all the corrupt Treasonous trough-snouting pollies took a few steps back not too long ago after the YOUNGER generation REVOLTED and managed to burn a lot of the pollies houses down and even KILLED a few of the mongrel arsehole bastards, and they were backed up by the Nepalese ARMY against the all hired mercenary thugs masquerading as Nepalese “police”.
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Contrast that with our situation here in Australia where the Australian Defence Force HELPS the Granny-bashing child-molesting pig-raping hired mercenary thugs to terrorise and torture and poison and KILL us.
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Fact is our self-annointed “elites” don’t work for us and they don’t answer to us, because they’re UNTOUCHABLE and that’s the way it will stay until we figure out how to TOUCH them. The Nepalese figured it out, and maybe we will too when we’re all outa bubblegum and Mr. Rope and Mr. Lamp Post ride into town.
Canberra is giving all the money to the UN, who recycles it through injections manufacturers into the Global Aid budget and tries to force it on babies in Africa, that’s why they can’t fix clean water in Africa or potholes here, in any case there would be so many kickbacks the money wouldn’t get there. (Every injection sold is 95% kickback, er, profit ) The UnaParty has worked hard to ruin Australia from Fabians Whitlam and Hawke to Recession Master Keating to Lying Rodent Howard to Ripoff Mephisto Rudd to Ring-Kisser Abbott to Lying Rodent MkII. They’re all the same and the UnaParty is servant of various “interests”. Red gives a sop to young socialists and blue gives a sop to the enterprising but they are both fully committed on the road to ruin.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wXIJhTfG8Pc
An asphalt runway in monsoon country is ludicrous & should be of a much higher standard. Thanks Pat for the historical info on about the ready action Airport Construction Squadron. And how stupid to get rid of it.
So many of our idiotic Politicians are happy to spend tens of millions & more on transgender lies, give hundreds of millions of $ in equipment meant for use in Australia to UKR to help start a 3rd world war, award Federal Politicians at least 3 pay rises since 2022 while they are hell bent on destroying our country & waste Billions of $ in thievery plus waste billions more in many other rorts ways including several hundred million dollars to try & unlawfully incarcerate Ben Roberts Smith. Yet this same Government does its utmost to avoid doing important & necessary maintenance for the benefit of our country.
The people are fed up with it but the Government does not care because they hold the Power & consider themselves invincible & above reproach. Well they are not invincible to Gods Laws which they will one day discover.
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All those decades ago the Royal Australian Air Force had a ready action team called the Airfield Construction Squadron who had the manpower and skills and resources and equipment and competence and capability to go to any location across the Australian continent and manufacture a world class airfield practically overnight.
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But they were mothballed many many years ago, folks, ostensibly to save some money, just like that sniveling baby-eating Port Arthur butchering Traitor Little Johnny Arthur closed down Radio Australia decades ago too, cutting off its enormous Southeast Asian audience from Austraian news and culture.
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Because we should all understand that, just like all the sold-out paid-off foreign-owned baby-eating kiddy-fiddling anti-Australian pollies, the Australian Department of Defence doesn’t work for us and they don’t answer to us either. Surprise!
I am bewildered as to why the aviation mob didn’t construct a concrete airstrip instead of bitumen that is prone to potholes and damage like this .
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