Maules Creek coal mine: A timeline of the planning and approval process

Planning and approval process for the Maules Creek Mine on Dipity. Are you having trouble viewing the timeline? Click here to view in a new window.   This is a timeline of planning and approval events relating to the Maules Creek coal mine, with specific focus on...

Whitehaven’s “offsets” are off the mark

In order to destroy the Leard State Forest to make a coal mine, Whitehaven have proposed “offsets”. Offsets are areas of land that are supposed to be like for like. That is, if one forest is destroyed, another forest of the exact same type, is preserved. The trouble...

Bat-activists Stop Work at Idemitsu’s Boggabri Mine

A group of people have stopped work today at Idemitsu’s Boggabri coal mine to protest habitat destruction caused by ongoing expansion of coal mining in Leard forest. Two activists in bat costumes have scaled a coal loader on site and have unfurled a banner...