GREENS MP and health spokesperson Lee Rhiannon is renewing her call for a parliamentary inquiry into the health impacts of coal mining and power station emissions.
14/08/2009
NSW GREENS MP, Lee Rhiannon has joined with community members to discuss coal seam gas projects in the Wollombi Valley.
13/08/2008
GREENS MP Lee Rhiannon has criticised the Environment Minister John Robertson for his refusal during question time to acknowledge there was a problem with dust emissions from coal mining in the Upper Hunter.
26/10/2009
THE NSW Greens are contesting calls from the Port Kembla Coal Terminal (PKCT) to lift a coal truck curfew in Wollongong.
20/01/2009
THE GREENS rallied together at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on 26 September 2008 to protest against a coal exploration project off the NSW coast.
29/09/2008
POLICE say four protesters have demonstrated against the expansion of BHP Billiton's Dendrobium coalmine in New South Wales.
12/10/2009
THE NSW Greens are criticising a Government decision to allow BHP Billiton Illawarra Coal to mine under Sydney’s water catchment.
08/01/2009
THE NEW South Wales Department of Planning says it is still deciding on wether or not to allow Duralie Coal pump open-cut coal mine water into the Karuah River tributary.
05/03/2009
Concerns have been raised by the Senate over the potential damage to farmland and water tables from proposed coal mining in the Liverpool Floodplains of New South Wales .
07/12/2009
THE world’s largest exporter of coking coal is feeling the slump in demand from steelmakers, noting a 20% decline in exports from its largest Australian port in December 2008.
20/01/2009