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Greens MP calls for study into health impacts of coal mining

  •  14 August 2009
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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.

MineWatch and the NSW Environmental Defenders' Office have now joined Rhiannon cause.

Rhiannon says the government is making millions from the Upper Hunter coal industry, giving the go ahead to one of the biggest industry expansions in NSW's history. She claims that funding an independent health study is the least the Rees government can do for residents living cheek to jowl with mines which emit air, noise and water pollution.

Rhiannon will put forward a motion calling for the study when NSW Parliament resumes in September 2009.

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