The next big challenge for the eight coal producers in our region is mine rehabilitation.
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To this end the coal producers together with their industry body the NSW Minerals Council have formulated a six point plan to ensure their rehabilitation work is more transparent and better understood by the community.
Mine rehabilitation work is a costly process but an absolutely vital process because currently in the Upper Hunter there is 18,283 hectares of land disturbed by mining.
Our community wants to see and have access to rehabilitated mining areas.
We want to know once the resource is removed we are not left with a landscape devoid of any life.
Its is up to the coal mining industry to show they are committed to rehabilitation and rehabilitation that works.
There six point plan is a good place to start and hopefully is does lead to improvements and innovation in the way mine sites are rehabilitated.
Because sadly the lower Hunter is scarred with many old mine sites and locally at the Great Greta mine near Glendonbrook problems have occurred after mining ceased.
