Adani lays blame with Palaszczuk for stalling

ADANI will today letterbox bomb 130,000 households to blame the State Government for stalling thousands of jobs, after the coal miner was granted federal approvals yesterday.

The fate of Adani’s 6750 direct and 1500 indirect jobs rests with Annastacia Palaszczuk and her Labor colleagues, dragging Bill Shorten into a political clash on the eve of a federal election.

Federal Environment Minister Melissa Price yesterday ticked off on her department’s decision to approve Adani’s groundwater management plans. The decision was just days after federal LNP MPs and Senators put on “suicide vests” and warned they would explode if the project was not treated fairly.

Several federal MPs caught wind of a deliberate go-slow, which they believe was advised by their senior Victorian counterparts.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison moved to stop any potential delay and calmed the Queenslanders, pledging all processes would be adhered to.

Ms Price, who was Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s former junior minister, was not planning to approve the groundwater management plan before the election because of perceptions of the impact of Adani in Victorian seats.

On Monday, Queensland federal LNP powerbroker James McGrath told Ms Price he would call for her resignation if she treated Adani differently to other projects and stalled Queensland jobs.

The project cannot start the mine’s construction or railway until the State Government approves the project’s Blackthroated Finch Management Plan and Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Management Plan.

With only the State Government now standing in the way of the project, Adani will today stuff letterboxes from Townsville to Rockhampton with campaign material that demands it “stop moving the goal posts so Adani can start kicking goals for workers”.