A residents’ group has rubbished suggestions by Coal and Allied, that a successful legal challenge to its Warkworth mine expansion has put 1,300 Hunter jobs at risk.
It came as a national inquiry into the impacts of air quality on health got underway in Newcastle.
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Welcome to the Hunter- MINES WINES & Bugger all FINES! Typical industry spokespeople they know that the community & those suffering health impacts have buckleys of proving that the health problems are as a result of mining activities. Basically because no baseline studies have been taken & imo government has been negligent in its duty to ensure a proper duty of care has been enforced.
Even when the lead smelters were active an effort to educate & inform impacted communities was taken when the seriousness was realised to limit those kids growing up there.
But no not the mining industry it is so arrogant they will just deny deny, deny.
Congratulations EPA you have lost the publics trust & you will never regain it.
Time to close down the EPA & give us a decent ENVIRO INVESTIGATION UNIT with priority to protects public & prosecute industry.
Honestly to say the mining industry in not a leader in environmental controls is misleading.
I do not know what lead has to do with coal mining. The application met all environmental guidelines under the act.
The truth is jobs are at risk. The decision by the court does not seem to have any justification past “I don’t like mines”. This is the kind of corrupt decisions expected in a third world economy.