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Shenhua to destroy NSW agricultural heartland: Laird

THE proposed Shenhua Watermark coal mine in New South Wales will carve a massive hole in the Liverpool Plains, one of Australia’s greatest food bowls, according to Lock the Gate Alliance spokesman and local landholder Phil Laird.

 Lock the Gate claims the Shenhua Watermark will put prime agricultural land in NSW at risk.

Lock the Gate claims the Shenhua Watermark will put prime agricultural land in NSW at risk.

He said the mine put the productive groundwater that was the life blood of agriculture on the Liverpool Plains at risk.   "Acquisition of properties around the mine will eat away at the social fabric...

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