The Australian government criticised on Friday ongoing efforts by interest organisations in India to curb the flow of Indian investments to coal mining projects into the country, specifically in Queensland.

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan denounced on Friday local advertisement that saw publication today in India that were reportedly paid for by global environmental activist Greenpeace, with solid backings from BackTrack and GetUp.

The ad, which the Australian Associated Press (AAP) said was run by The Financial Times, obviously aims to discourage Indian investors from participating in business ventures that were mainly geared in the resource-rich Queensland.

Attempts to invest in the state, the ads claimed, would likely be met by stiff oppositions from environmental groups and coupled with political interference coming from the national and local governments, investments can then be labelled as 'risky businesses', the newspaper ad said.

The Financial Times paid-ad particularly called into question the Alpha Coal Project, which it claimed was fraught with man-induced complications.

Politics were written all over the costly coal initiative, estimated at around $6.4 billion by the Queensland government, the groups that sponsored the ads stressed.

"The mine, rail and port are all likely to experience lengthy delays and significant cost blowouts," AAP reported the ad as saying on Friday.

It was unfortunate, Mr Swan said, that some sectors interpret the legal showdown between the national and state authorities over the Alpha Coal project as cause of major glitches or even delays but he clarified that what was unfolding was mainly of regulatory corrections.

"We had to pull in the Queensland government in line but we certainly don't have to see this sort of obnoxious behaviour from Greenpeace," the Treasurer said.

He stressed that the tactics employed by some interest groups were not only unfair but also deplorable.

"They should be condemned and I condemn them in the strongest possible way," the Deputy Prime Minister told AAP.

And Queensland's Liberal government appears to agree with Mr Swan this time as Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney warned that Greenpeace and its allies could, unwittingly, be waging a campaign that is "damaging for the Queensland economy."

In a statement, Mr Seeney appealed on Greenpeace to widen its view on the issue, which the group can do so by also considering the economic ramifications of its environmental causes.

While he allowed that Greenpeace is deeply concerned on the way Australia has been managing the Great Barrier Reef, as stated on the ad, the Queensland executive is hopeful at the same time that the group would think prior to unleashing actions that could undermine the well-being of Queensland's economy.

"Anyone who takes a sensible look at the resources industry in Queensland can very quickly understand that the Queensland economy needs the resources sector," the deputy premier said in his statement.