Guardian: The Queensland government has pledged to allay UN concerns about the Great Barrier Reef by preventing any major new ports until 2022, but environmentalists have accused it of conducting a greenwash that will do little to protect the vast coral ecosystem. A draft Queensland ports strategy, released on Thursday, prohibits deepwater port facilities and seabed dredging outside five priority port development areas Brisbane, Mackay, Gladstone, Townsville and Abbot Point over the next decade. ...