Mines, gas projects, farms and other industries in Australia’s second-biggest resources market and third-biggest agriculture sector could be shut down by a bureaucrat’s decision, under secret legislation drafted by the Queensland Environment Department. Several high-level sources said the draft bill as circulated would give a bureaucrat, likely the Environment Department’s director-general, the power to wind back retrospectively existing environmental approvals, licences, and permits to slash production capacity.An industry source said: “It’s frankly outrageous. It would give power to a bureaucrat to unilaterally and retrospectively close businesses. It’s sovereign risk of the highest order.”