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NSW coal projects not the same as Adani: NSWMC

COMPARISONS by activists groups between Adani’s proposed Carmichael thermal coal project in Queensland and New South Wales mines awaiting approval have confused open cut and underground mining projects and vastly overstated the scale of the land that would be disturbed, according to the NSW Minerals Council.

Lou Caruana
NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee.

NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee.

The Lock the Gate activist group mixes up basic facts about these projects, including confusing thermal coal mines with those that would produce metallurgical coal for making steel, NSWMC CEO Stephen Galilee...

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