Regional Development Minister and Nationals leader Brendon Grylls has refused to release a swag of documents dealing with a WA Government decision to drop a $45.5 million environmental bond on Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer's $4 billion Balmoral South iron ore project in the Pilbara.Environment Minister Donna Faragher removed the Environmental Protection Authority imposed bond after Mr Palmer lobbied her and Mr Grylls last year.
Although Premier Colin Barnett said yesterday a bond on the project would still be applied through the Mining Act, the Labor Opposition claimed in State Parliament that Mr Palmer received favoured treatment because he was a major donor to the Nationals.
Electoral Commission records show that for the 2008-09 financial year Mr Palmer's company Mineralogy donated $110,000 to the WA Nationals.
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