Looking at the councillors for and against, it strikes me that politicians on the right complain about the business uncertainty resulting when there are obstacles to getting resource projects developed and complain about the federal government changing rules and arbitrarily rejecting projects after millions of dollars have been spent - and I think there is some validity to those complaints. However those same politicians have been the ones doing the exact same thing for development applications by other industries, whether it be transit-oriented development or renewable energy.
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