ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: Waratah Coal drilling at the Alpha mine site, west of Emerald. Source: The Courier-Mail
CLIVE Palmer's Waratah Coal claims its $8.3 billion central Queensland coalmine project will create 70,000 jobs over 30 years and pump about $1 billion a year into state and federal coffers.
But an environmental impact study on the Waratah Coal Galilee Basin project has warned of "irreversible" changes to the landscape and social fabric from the project, near Alpha.
It will need almost an entire town to be built on the site housing 2500 people, most of whom will be part of a controversial fly-in, fly-out workforce.
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