Defend the Laws that Stop New Coal Mines.
If you are starting to think that the grip of the coal and gas industry on Australian land and politics is impossible to break -take hope. New coal mines are being knocked back by the courts for their climate impacts. In February 2019 the New South Wales Land and Environment Court made a landmark judgement to reject a new open-cut coal mine near Gloucester in the Hunter Valley, NSW. For the first time one of the key reasons given was the global heating impacts of the co2 released when the coal is burned. Six months later the legal precedent was repeated when it was determined that South…
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