I remmeber the conversation i had with a guy whos job it was to lobby the government in behalf of mining companies for new mining sites. His words were exactly

I remmeber the conversation i had with a guy whos job it was to lobby the government in behalf of mining companies for new mining sites. His words were exactly "No project i lobby wont get approved, its just worth too much money to too many people. And dont complain to me about the environment destruction of the mines when you cant exist without your lighting and gas at home." "Corel doesnt make me money. I dont care about dead corel reefs, by the time they all die they will have found out a way to grow them back quickly and everything will be good again". So thats the ideaology of the people who work in this space. This person lobbied for the largest mining companies in Aus. I guess it really was a preminiation of today, when the GBR has finally shrunk enough to have more uses to corperations then simply being a tailings pond. Now they can leech the funding being earmarked for recovering the reef that they killed. Win win! Money talks. Rare us is ok, but really rare, now thats were the money is at.