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A defender group says that the mining giant BHP should go on the bill for a large fire ant in Queensland.
Odor detection dog teams come after finding the presence of fire ants in several mining areas in the Central Highlands and Isaac Council regions, including the BHP Broadmeadow mine in the west of Mackay.
According to the national fire ant eradication program data, most of the country is at risk of invasion.
Fire ants may have a serious effect on the Australian ecosystem.
In the light of the latest detection, Reece Piana from the Invasive Council believes that BHP should pay for the necessary treatment in areas affected by the fire ant invasion.
“When a mining company moves the contaminated material and leads to an outbreak, the taxpayers should not leave the invoice – responsible companies should pay to clean their confusion from an oil leakage,” he said.
Instead of forcing public funds to use, Piana insists that companies such as BHP are not a matter of punishment in this case.
“This is not related to companies based on the bill for everything. However, if governments allow such outbreaks to remove the sources from the most needed, we are at risk of weakening the eradication efforts in the whole country.”
“BHP has done the right thing to report and support the fire ant supervision work, and now they are uniquely placed to support the response.”
BHP has been contacted for comment.
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