Further job losses deal fresh blow to coal mine workers
Although a source company does not make profits under a controversial plan, it claims that one of the mines has paid money for coal copyright despite the sparks of more business deductions.
Queensland is the third largest miner in many days to verify dismissal, and one of the underground areas will be closed in the coming weeks.
The company targeted the Coal Coal Rights Program of the State Government, after announcing that one of the two underground areas of Cook Colliery Mine has been closed in Queensland.
Approximately 170 people are employed in two parts of the mine near the Blackwater, operated by Core Crew, and about half of the workers will be affected by closing at the beginning of October.
Anglo American and BHP Mitsubishi Alliance announced the business cuts and mines casseroles, and approximately 1000 workers were ax.
QCOAL said that increasing costs and market conditions play a role in their decisions, but emphasized coal royalties.
“Unfortunately, Cook Colliery was affected by high production costs, high taxes and copyright prices and low coal prices and its ongoing operation cannot be sustained,” he said.
“Cook Colliery has contributed $ 25 million to the Queensland government since it has never been profitable since March 2022.”
BHP Mitsubishi Alliance accused the government’s “sustainable” copyright regime and 750 business deductions under market conditions and claimed that the state coal industry has reached the “crisis point ..
Citizen leader David LittleProud led to calls for reform to ask the Queensland government to throw and abandon coal.
“If we want to have a sustainable mining industry, there is a need to review the copyright tax,” he said on Thursday.
Queensland’s liberal national government refused to make any changes in the state’s progressive copyright regime and fulfilled its 2024 election promise.
Premier David Crisafulli will have a meeting with the welding sector next week.
However, it is believed that it was organized weeks ago and is not in response to criticism or layoffs of the copyright plan.
Opposition leader Steven Miles is still suspected that the LNP government can participate in mining companies and trigger copyright reforms.
He accused the mining companies of helping Mr Crisafulli to “prepare the ground” to change their copyrights following the dismissal series.
“This uses workers and livelihoods as a bargain chips to allow David Crisafulli to leave the hook,” he said on Friday.
“Now we understand that it is a meeting… Coal companies next week.
“Expectations from coal companies will express the intention of returning, disrupting the promise and reducing coal royalties, and this would be a great shame for Queensland.”
The BHP marked one of the mines operated with an alliance, and it may be in a casserole after a net profit of more than a quarter of a quarter of the financial year last month after falling to USD $ 10.6 billion (A16.05 billion).
BHP Mitsubishi Alliance’s Adam Lancey said that under the current regime this week, the company paid about eight times more royalties than he won in the snow.
In 2022, the former workers’ government introduced a layered copyright system.
Under its progressive structure, higher income is obtained during the explosion periods of high coal prices, but it is less taken when market conditions deteriorate.
Extremely high coal prices allowed Queensland’s copyrights to double from almost $ 7.7 billion to $ 7.7 billion in 2022-23 for 2021-22.
However, the change of market conditions has decreased since the latest Queensland budget fell to $ 6.1 billion compared to $ 10 billion in 2023-24.
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