GREAT Lakes Council is opposing requests to release mine water into a creek in New South Wales.
05/09/2008
THE DURALIE Coal Mine is still waiting for the NSW government to clarify whether it can discharge waste waster in Mammy Johnson’s River under its current licence conditions.
15/10/2008
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
FELIX Resources’ Moolarben Coal Mine development has hit opposition from the Mid Western Regional Council.
26/05/2009
APEX Energy has lodged its plans to explore the Illawarra escarpment for methane gas found in coal seams with the New South Wales Department of Planning.
07/04/2009
FELIX Resources has announced that it has commenced a water study at its Moolarben coal mine which is part of the conditions of approval of stage 1, imposed by the Department of Planning (DOP).
30/06/2009
CENTENNIAL Coal says that recent technical studies showing that the Olstan auger mine project in the City of Lake Maquarie, New South Wales will not be economically viable are behind its decision to withdraw from the project application.
20/07/2009
GREENPOWER Energy has signed a Farm-In Agreement allowing Regal Resources to establish an underground coal to liquids process at Greenpower’s Exploration Licence 4860.
20/10/2009
AUSTRALIA’S coal exports may be threatened by Malaysia’s Second National Mineral Policy launched in January 2009.
05/02/2009
AUSTRALIA is embarking on a demonstration project to prove power stations can be refitted to burn coal in a cleaner way.
11/12/2008
DIVERSIFIED Mining Services (DMS) has received its first delivery of its Australian-made Atlas Copco Coaltram CT10 underground coal utility vehicle.
12/08/2009
THE New South Wales government will modify consent conditions of an Upper Hunter coal mine regardless of environmental concerns.
25/09/2008
THE coal industry needs to put its business interests ahead of the environment to fuel Australia’s financial system and economy, according to Massey Energy CEO, Don Blanketship.
01/12/2008
ENVIRONMENTAL activists claim offshore drilling for coal could destroy the marine environment and have a negative impact on local tourism.
11/11/2008
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
MAJOR clean coal projects in Queensland will fail unless the Federal Government changes its emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to the opposition environment spokesman.
19/01/2009
A NEW report has found the coal industry contributes to $170bn in environmental and societal damages each year.
28/11/2008
THE NSW Government has given Illawarra Coal the go-ahead to expand the Dendrobium Coal Mine despite environmental concerns.
07/01/2009
PROFESSOR Klaus Lackner, Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University say that he is part of a team that is developing a "synthetic tree" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.
25/06/2009
An expansion of a coal mine north of Wollongong has been granted approval after appeals against it have been dismissed in the Land and Environment Court.
13/01/2010