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Climate change fears kill coal mine

THE New South Wales Land and Environment Court has knocked back Gloucester Resources appeal over its Rocky Hill development, near Gloucester, citing the mine’s impacts on climate change as a key reason.

Part of the Rocky Hill project site.

Part of the Rocky Hill project site.

Interestingly, a lot of the climate change argument was not about the greenhouse gases caused by using the coal the mine would produce but rather the greenhouse gases emitted to mine the coal. In refusing...

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