Balance returned to mining approvals

By Bev Smiles, Spokesperson, Hunter Communities Network
July 22 2015 - 2:04pm

We’ve heard a lot lately from the NSW Minerals Council about risks to mining jobs in the Hunter (“People power”, Singleton Argus, 10 July). Its CEO, Stephen Galilee, has been scaremongering about the potential impacts of revised government planning policy for the approval of coal mine projects. The reality is that these ‘reforms’ properly reinstate a previous policy that required the social and environmental impacts of a coal project be considered as well as its economic benefits.

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