But the regional council is urging the state authorities to rethink its resolution and preserve the city standing to serve a brand new mine opening up down the highway.
“It is just a ridiculous situation that we find ourselves in,” Isaac Mayor Anne Baker informed Today.
She mentioned there was “plenty of capacity” for incoming staff to be housed in Glenden.
“We are in the middle of a housing crisis,” she mentioned.
“It is a reckless preliminary decision. I am just gobsmacked and lost for words.”
Glenden, south-west of Mackay, was constructed within the early Nineteen Eighties by mining firm Glencore, to function a house for staff on the Newlands coal mine and their households.
The firm is now closing up store within the area, and in accordance with its contract settlement, the emptied properties can be bulldozed within the identify of rehabilitation.
That’s regardless of one other main mine, operated by QCoal, opening up simply down the highway.
But QCoal is reportedly opting to construct its personal FIFO employee’s camp.
The state authorities has made a preliminary resolution to grant QCoal permission to take action, however the regional council is asking on Resources Minister Scott Stewart to reverse his stance.
9news.com.au has contacted Glencore for remark.
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