A landmark decision in the NSW Land and Environment Court to knock back a new open-cut coalmine in the Hunter Valley based on its contribution to climate change is looming over other projects around the state.NSW Farmers describe one of the projects as being home to"some of the best soil in the country"
Environmentalists and mining companies alike have referred to February's Rocky Hill mine decision in two very different pleas to the Independent Planning Commission on two controversial projects currently under the commission's remit: the proposed new Bylong Valley coal mine, north-east of Mudgee, and the Wambo Open Cut expansion, near Singleton.marked for approval by the New South Wales Department of Planning and EnvironmentWith plans to extract 6.
The protesters held signs reading"Act on climate — Stop the Bylong coal mine" and"Rocky Hill — rejected".In February, an Australian-first occurred when the proposed Rocky Hill coal mine near Gloucester, on the NSW mid-north coast,He ruled the development would increase greenhouse gas emissions at a time when they urgently needed to be cut,"in order to meet generally agreed climate targets" such as the Paris Agreement.
'there is no government policy or legal principle that dictates the extent to which [greenhouse gas] emissions generated by either the project or the combustion of the project's coal by other developments are to be considered and weighted in determining a development application.
Which ones? Most likely CEOs worried about their profits
And the COALition should feel the heat at the election too.
Man made climate change is a lie, and if you believe humans are warming the planet, sorry but you're a gullible fool.