COPPERSTRING CRITICAL TO SAVE MILLIONS OF DIESEL PER WEEK

More than 1.2 million litres of diesel every week could be back in the hands of our truckies and farmers if we had CopperString to Mount Isa, Robbie Katter, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said.

A survey of power-isolated mines in the North West Minerals Provence has revealed 13 triple road trains a week are needed to generate on-site electricity, with that figure set to more than double to 30 triple road trains weekly, in the next five years as mines expand, while CopperString is not delivered.

FUEL SECURITY WARNINGS NOT NEW – NOW IT’S GONE TO CUSTARD

“If things turn to custard, you’re likely to have a problem,” John Blackburn, Ret. Vice Air Marshall said, almost four years ago on a podcast hosted by Robbie Katter, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger.

“John sent the warning loud and clear in 2022 and has continued to since – Australia is far from prepared for global shocks to the fuel market like we’re seeing now,” Mr Katter said. 

“The free marketeers have been caught with their pants down, and the rest of Australia are the ones left to pay.

KATTER CONTINUES 14 YEARS OF CALLS FOR NATIONAL FUEL SECURITY VIA ROBUST ETHANOL MANDATE

Yesterday in Parliament the Premier stood on Labor’s position and refused to commit to taking tangible action on fuel security by implementing a robust ethanol mandate, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said.

In opposition the LNP put three bills into Parliament to implement an ethanol mandate, then refused to support the KAP bill in 2014. 

“The fuel crisis is well beyond party politics now,” Mr Katter said.

PHOSPHATE HILL SALE IS WELCOMED STABILITY

After a protracted period of uncertainty, it’s great to hear today of the sale and ongoing operation of the Phosphate Hill Fertiliser Plant, the Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. 

Dyno Nobel have announced to the ASX that Mayfair Australia Corporation will be acquiring the plant, securing 540 jobs.

“Phosphate Hill is more than just a mine in our area, it’s an integral part of a wider industrial ecosystem,” Mr Katter said. 

HOME GROWN FUEL SECURITY OPPORTUNITY STILL UNTAPPED

It’s mind-blowing to know we can grow our own fuel, ethanol, with sugar cane and grain, yet we are told to helplessly brace for skyrocketing fuel prices because of the Middle East war, the Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. 

In his now 14 years in the Queensland Parliament Mr Katter has fervently pushed for ethanol mandates and incentives to drive the industry and build capacity to produce Australian grown and manufactured fuel.

WORLD DESPERATE FOR QUEENSLAND RESOURCES, LNP GOVERNMENT STILL SAYS NO!

The LNP Government in Queensland is blindly holding sticking to their long-held woke position alongside Labor that Queensland’s rich uranium resources should be locked away underground, at a time when Europe is turning back to nuclear, The Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said.

The President of the European Commission has recently said Europe turning their back on nuclear power was a “strategic mistake for Europe”, triggering reports of the Bank of America forecasting the potential for uranium spot prices to reach US$135/lb by the end of the year, nearing record high prices.

COMMUNITY RALLIES AGAINST CHARTERS TOWERS HOUSING DESTRUCTION

Passionate Charters Towers locals, with only 24 hours’ notice rallied at the site of the former Eventide Aged Care units to join Robbie Katter MP in calling out the galling insanity of housing units being bulldozed in the middle of an acute housing crisis. 

Mr Katter addressed the crowd, saying there was no need for this destruction, given there is a developer ready to step in and convert the units for housing, at no cost to the taxpayer.

CONFUSION REIGNS ON COPPERSTRING OWNERSHIP

I don’t get it – will Queenslanders own CopperString, or will the industry and job creating project be sold off to a multinational like Glencore who only have the interests of their boardroom at heart? Katter’s Australian Party Leader, and Member for Traeger has said.

Mr Katter asked the Treasurer and Energy Minister in Parliament last sitting week if he would categorically rule out handing the CopperString project to private ownership, to which the Treasurer answered “…we are absolutely determined to keep state involvement, state ownership and a state management process involved…”

EVERY QUEENSLANDER’S DEMOCRATIC RIGHT IN QUESTION

“We’ve just seen a huge national debate play out in the Federal Parliament around free speech, and the state government have a chance to make amends for their federal colleagues voting to curtail free speech.  The irony can’t be lost that a party that would typically be associated with free speech are now pioneers of denying the same right in one of our most important arenas,” the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) leader and State Member for Traeger said. 

BOARDER CONTROL, BIOSECURITY IN TATTERS

Despite 1.3 billion dollars of Australian’s taxes being spent on so-called border control Torres Strait locals have contacted me, and local media are reporting fishermen from Indonesia casually coming ashore and ordering a beer after brazenly illegally fishing in our waters.

What sort of show are we running in this country?  

Thank goodness these fellas were ‘just fishermen’.