Turtle tale a political ploy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015: IN their latest effort to kill off jobs, the extreme greens have used the plight of turtles nesting to stop the Abbot Point coal expansion.The Australian Marine Conservation Society are now trumpeting the fact that this area is a hotspot for marine turtles in their endless attack on the job-creating expansion of the Abbot Point coal terminal.This is despite the fact that Adani funds the local indigenous people, the Juru people, to run a turtle nesting program where they go and actually install protection barriers around the nesting turtles to stop other animals – foxes, pigs, dogs – from getting into nests and destroying hatchlings.Instead of using the plight of turtles to stop job-creating projects, why isn’t the Australian Marine Conservation Society actually spending money on doing something practical and productive like that?The Australian Marine Conservation Society is not an environmental organisation; they’re a political organisation.And that is why they should be stripped of their tax deductibility status.They amass donations with misleading campaigns to pull people’s heart strings, and yet they exist purely to prosecute political agendas.Unfortunately those political agendas come at the cost of jobs and investment for us here in Central and North Queensland.