MARCH 12, 2015:The extreme greens have dressed up a man-made duck pond and presented it as part of the Great Barrier Reef and Labor has fallen for the con.The result - thousands of North Queensland jobs go begging.The newly formed Queensland Labor government have tried to appease the Greens by moving a land-based dredge disposal site at Abbot Point by a few metres.The area these extreme greens pretend to care about was actually a dry flat plain until two gun clubs got together in the 1950s to divert a watercourse and create a pond where they could shoot ducks.This is supported by a GHD report that reads: “The estuarine part of the wetland system was artificially isolated from tidal influences in 1956 when the Bowen Gun Club constructed a bund across the Mt Stuart Creek near the downstream limit of the wetland.”The Mayor of the Burdekin Shire, Cr Bill Lowis, has told me he was involved in the project to divert the watercourse at the time.There are social media memes created by anti-Abbot Point activist group Fight for the Reef, which beg for donations to “help protect the Reef’s Caley Valley Wetlands”*.The last time I checked, the reef was a long boat ride off the coast of Abbot Point but I know the activists would claim Uluru was a part of the reef if they thought it would shut down mining in Australia.Labor fell for it hook, line, and sinker and moved the disposal site a stone’s throw to the left, putting thousands of jobs back on the shelf for another year.We can see it was all a decoy from the greens to delay the project further because they are now continuing attacks on Abbot Point in an attempt to kill jobs and shut down mining.