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Meeting to hear coal port worries

August 14, 2008 14:39:00

Byfield residents are concerned that a proposed coal port and rail line at Shoalwater Bay will have a devastating impact on their lives.[MORE]

Tags: coal, rail-transport, byfield-4703, rockhampton-4700, shoalwater-4702

Green group lobbies against coal port plan

August 11, 2008 10:33:00

The Capricorn Conservation Council (CCC) says it will be writing to Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett about a proposed coal port at Shoalwater Bay in central Queensland.[MORE]

Tags: urban-development-and-planning, environmental-management, federal-government, environmental-health, activism-and-lobbying, coal, byfield-4703, rockhampton-4700, shoalwater-4702

Coffee farm sold to Forestry Plantations Qld

January 10, 2008 11:35:00

Forestry Plantations Queensland has bought the former Capricorn Coast Coffee farm at Byfield in central Queensland.[MORE]

Tags: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, rural, agricultural-crops, teacoffee, bundaberg-4670, byfield-4703, longreach-4730, rockhampton-4700

Call for rules to manage Orange Bowl dunes 4WD access

October 18, 2007 08:40:00

A community group has recommended a set of rules be drawn up to control the use of four-wheel drives in sand dunes around Byfield in central Queensland.[MORE]

Tags: environmental-management, local-government, byfield-4703, rockhampton-4700

Mayor says Byfield Rd unsuitable for military traffic

September 10, 2007 11:14:00

The Mayor of Livingstone Shire in central Queensland says a threat by the Defence Department to divert military convoys through Byfield is very provocative.[MORE]

Tags: defence-and-national-security, local-government, byfield-4703, rockhampton-4700

Lindsay, council to discuss Three Rivers Beach future

August 9, 2007 10:28:00

The Livingstone Shire Mayor has invited a federal parliamentary secretary to visit the Capricorn Coast to discuss the future of Three Rivers Beach near Byfield in central Queensland.[MORE]

Tags: environmental-management, federal-government, local-government, byfield-4703, yeppoon-4703

Air Force plane drifts 2,000km to Yeppoon beach

October 2, 2006 11:38:00

An Australian Air Force plane that washed up on a beach north of Yeppoon on the central Queensland coast recently had apparently drifted about 2,000 kilometres from Jervis Bay, near Wollongong in New South Wales.[MORE]

Tags: air-force, jervis-bay-2540, byfield-4703, yeppoon-4703