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Coal dust causes concern in the playground

13 August, 2012 Sydney Morning Herald MORE than 23,000 students at about 60 Hunter schools within 500 metres of the region’s coal railway spend their lunchtimes breathing air filled with coal dust from passing trains. Many also spend their days … Continue reading

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Windsor demands action on coal seam gas

ABC News November 1, 2011 Independent MP Tony Windsor is threatening to derail the Government’s mining tax unless it clamps down on coal seam gas exploration and provides millions of dollars for research into the environmental effects of coal seam … Continue reading

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Mine’s toxic flow gives river users a scare

Sydney Morning Herald October 22, 2011 A PLUME of toxic pollution from an old antimony mine appears to have killed fish for dozens of kilometres along the Macleay River in northern NSW. The state government said there was no increased … Continue reading

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Bubbling, orange water makes your blood boil

Sydney Morning Herald March 10th, 2011 Residents of southern Sydney who drink water from the Woronora Dam deserve to be invited into its catchment to see their precious water running bright orange with iron oxide and bubbling with methane (”Catchment … Continue reading

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Catchment gas leak as coalmine cracks – SMH

Also, check out our recent photos of the damage to the Waratah rivulet here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53515439@N05/sets/72157626103042195/ Ben Cubby ENVIRONMENT EDITOR March 9, 2011 Bubbling up … methane is emerging in the Waratah Rivulet. METHANE is bubbling up through one of the … Continue reading

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Mining threatens national park plan – SMH

Sean Nicholls and Ben Cubby March 9, 2011 THE centrepiece of the Coalition’s environment platform for the state election has become a legal minefield with revelations that its planned national park on Sydney’s fringe is layered with previously unpublicised mining … Continue reading

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Minister scuttles longwall coalmine plan – SMH

Ben Cubby ENVIRONMENT EDITOR March 5, 2011 THE Planning Minister, Tony Kelly, used the last few hours before the government went into caretaker mode to block a controversial coalmine plan for the central coast. The Wallarah 2 mine would have … Continue reading

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State Government rejects Kores coal mine plan for Wyong

Central Coast Express Advocate 4th March 2011 The NSW Government today rejected the Wallarah 2 coal mine proposal near Wyong due to unresolved concerns regarding subsidence, water, ecological and heritage impacts. This is despite a Planning Assessment Commission recommendation that … Continue reading

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$600m NSW coal mine proposal scuttled

ABC News Online 4th March 2011 The New South Wales Government has refused permission for a $600 million coal mine in a key central coast electorate. Mining firm Kores, which is owned by the South Korean Government, had planned to … Continue reading

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A cloud over coal seam gas

Business Spectator Feb 22nd 2011 The coal-seam gas industry is going to have to get its act together, and fast, or it will not achieve anything like the future the share market expects. Just about every group that looks at … Continue reading

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