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A mining company has flagged the destruction of a sacred Gulf Country hill. Is it Queensland’s own Juukan Gorge disaster, or a chance to raise a community out of poverty?

A mining company has flagged the destruction of a sacred Gulf Country hill. Is it Queensland’s own Juukan Gorge disaster, or a chance to raise a community out of poverty?

A mining company has flagged the destruction of a sacred Gulf Country hill. Is it Queensland’s own Juukan Gorge disaster, or a chance to raise a community out of poverty?

Oil went, how the oil is behaving. but we want to be very, very clear that this does not mean there isn't more to be done. there remains a lot to be done while sort of the first phase of closing the well may be coming to an end. of there is another phase, which is the restoration, making sure these communities, the individuals in these communities, are made whole. we are going to continue to ensure that bp is held accountable for the damage that they did, for the economic losses and ultimately for the natural resource damages and all of the restoration that will take place in the gulf communit...

It's wrong. >> reporter: jim wallace, ceo of sojourners in washington isn't playing politics here. he says this is a moral issue. wallace is praying for an epiphany starting with our nation weaning itself off oil. >> epiphany is a religious term for waking up. you know? something hits us and we feel something we've never seen before and it's all new now, like conversion. if this doesn't lead to a conversion or an epiphany then all of the suffering and the pain that we're seeing will be in vain. >> reporter: the pain is evident within these tight gulf communities. tom says he sees it every day ...