Way-McPhail is one of the independent directors of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility which will make recommendations to the federal government on whether it should loan hundreds of millions of dollars for the controversial mine.



Earlier this week ABC News revealed Way-McPhail is chief executive of two businesses which could potentially commercially benefit from the coal mine in the Galilee Basin.

Green group Environmental Justice Australia has called for Way-McPhail to recuse herself from NAIF's recommendations over concerns she has a conflict of interest.