New Acland subject to rigorous environmental conditions The current member for Nanango is the LNPs rising star Deb Frecklington, who holds the seat with a 9 per cent margin. Let me be really clear about Acland, this is a town and a community that has been a mining town for many, many years and this completely revised project means jobs, Ms Frecklington said. She said the revised proposal was assessed by Queenslands coordinator-general and was subject to rigorous environmental conditions. Its a completely revised proposal to the last election, Ms Frecklington said. We have encouraged the company involved to go and talk to the community like I have and work out what are the issues around the original proposal. And that is what theyve done. The controversy received national attention this past week when shock jock Alan Jones spoke out against the mine expansion and called Mr Newman a liar. But Ms Frecklington said the electorate did not want to listen to political commentators. What they want is a local member who is on the ground listening to their community, she said. Labors Liz Hollens-Riley, Grant Newson for the Greens, the Palmer United Partys Jason Ford and independent Dean Love round out the ballot paper in Nanango. abc.net.au/news/2015-01-24/nanango-acland-mine-expansion-lnp-campbell-newman-ray-hopper/6032078
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