Water is a resource that both unites and divides people in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, where many communities are facing the prospect of large-scale open-cut coalmining developments on productive mixed use land,...
Category: Article, Water, Coal
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In February 2001, Bickham Coal (BC) presented a plan to the then Murrurundi Council to take out a 25,000 tonne bulk sample of coal next to the Pages River, South of Blandford, as the first stage of a 25 million tonne open cut...
Category: Article, General
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In 2006 BCAG conducted a Newspoll in the Upper Hunter Shire to gauge community opinion about the mines.
Here is the summary
Category: Article, Coal
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It's like having a volcano growing in the Shire. A little hill one day, a mountain the next.
Category: Article, General
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Mother Nature knew what she was doing when she buried organic coal sediments deep underground within sedimentary layers of rock.
By Pauline Roberts PHD., B.SC. (HONS)., DBM
Category: Article, Coal
