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Queensland act
This Queensland law creates a system to protect special areas of the state — farmland, towns, cropping land, and ecologically important environments — from being damaged by mining, gas, petroleum, and other major industrial activities.
The law identifies four types of protected areas:
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Direct links to the current provisions in Regional Planning Interests Act 2014.
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If you want to carry out a resource activity (mining, gas drilling, etc.) or a regulated activity (a major activity with widespread, irreversible impacts) within one of these protected areas, you must have a "Regional Interests Development Approval" first. Doing so without one is a serious criminal offence: