Coal dust report “deeply flawed”
By Rachel Dally-Watkins 20 May, 2015 A coal dust report by Clean Air Queensland has been heavily criticised by the Queensland Resources Council for being “deeply flawed and misleading”. The Health Hazard in our Suburbs study claimed that air quality monitoring showed “alarming” rates of pollution in Brisbane due to dust from coal trains travelling to the port, with coal train pollution readings of 900 per cent above normal levels. Clean Air Queensland is a coalition of community groups and individual anti-coal activist groups, including Lock the Gate Alliance, Oakey Coal Action Alliance, Friends of the Earth Brisbane and Parent’s Against Coal Dust. Clean Air Queensland spokesman Michael Kane urged the state government to take the report seriously. “We need a commitment…