This year NQCC celebrates its 50^th birthday. As an anniversary project, we have collected stories from people who have been involved in environmental activism in North Queensland in the past 50 years. These will be released, several stories at a time over the next six weeks.

NQCC was established in 1974. In 1980 plans for a uranium mine were announced for Ben Lomond which is 50km from Townsville and in the catchment of the Burdekin River. In response, the Burdekin Anti-Nuclear Group BANG formed in Charters Towers to oppose the development. NQCC led the case against the mine in the Charters Towers Mining Warden’s Court. And we won – the first time that a mining application had been rejected in a Queensland Mining Warden’s Court – unheard of at that time! The story is told in these two stories.

Thank you to all the story tellers!

Supported by Townsville City Council.