MARCH 11, 2015: THE job-creating Abbot Point project near Bowen will be delayed another year after the Queensland Labor government's announcement today, which is effectively a cave-in to the fanciful claims from the extreme greens.Labor’s slight change in location for disposal of dredge spoil will trigger another application and decision process and delay the project start by up to a year, and this could be the last straw for many waiting for the project to go ahead.There are businesses on their way out right now because of the constant uncertainty with this project and they shouldn’t be because the hold-up is all based on a lie.The extreme Greens have claimed the disposal site is a pristine wetland of international significance when it could hardly be further from the truth.Until last year, no one outside of Bowen had even heard of the Caley Valley wetlands and the locals who knew of it also knew that it was created from a dry flat plain in the 1950s when two gun clubs got together and diverted water courses to create an area where they could shoot ducks.In the height of stupidity, the extreme greens are even trying to claim the manufactured wetland is a part of the Great Barrier Reef.  They would claim Uluru was part of the reef if they thought it would prevent coal mining.The Queensland Labor government has pandered to the extremists and sacrificed business, the economy, and jobs for North Queenslanders.The simple solution was to approve the current application and we could have seen jobs created as early as next week.There is a narrow window for dredging to take place and Labor’s decision to delay again will see that window close for another year.The Queensland Labor government sold out all Queenslanders by breaking their promise not to sell assets when they should have been breaking their promise to the Greens instead.This delay will give the extreme greens another 12 months to dream up ludicrous claims about the reef and lodge more frivolous law suits. They won’t be happy until they kill all mining jobs in Queensland.