Maybe they'd make far more money by running a 'DUMB state '...

Maybe they'd make far more money by running a 'DUMB state ' campaign. If the cap fits wear it I say. Or perhaps the threat of excess reg plates on some way threatens the aquifers. Perhaps fork out squillions in consultant fees & useless parliamentary committees to delay a new technology so long that it will go bankrupt. Or maybe once it's proven it's technology beyond reasonable doubt fiddle & fudge long enough to finish the company off completely. This is business in QLD. Oh yeah give a licence to open cut coal mining just to completely sheet in the face of the little Ozzie company & it's shareholders.