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Yancoal comes back fighting over blasts

A YANCOAL spokesman has called complaints by nearby landholders about blasts from its newly-acquired Mount Thorley Warkworth mine in New South Wales Hunter Valley “accusations that are riddled with inaccuracies and just an excuse for specific individuals to fire off a torrent of anti-mining sentiment”.

 Yancoal refutes claims about its blasting in the Hunter Valley by nearby landowners.

Yancoal refutes claims about its blasting in the Hunter Valley by nearby landowners.

Local landholders and vignerons have written to the Department of Planning saying Yancoal should be investigated and its licence suspended until such time as it can demonstrate it has the competence to...

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