ENVIRONMENT

Price coming under pressure over Watermark

FEDERAL Environment Minister Melissa Price may follow the New South Wales government’s lead and vary the approval to allow Chinese giant Shenhua to start pre-construction for its proposed Watermark mine without the promised management plans.

 Liverpool Plains farmers want the federal government to overturn Shenhua's Watermark open cut coal mine approval.

Liverpool Plains farmers want the federal government to overturn Shenhua's Watermark open cut coal mine approval.

The NSW government allowed Shenhua to alter its development approval for the Watermark open cut coal mine in the Liverpool Plains, which will enable work on site to begin without key management plans being...

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