Coal dust is a clearly
known particulate detrimental to human health.
Sadly the coal industry, at least that which uses Australia’s
Newcastle port, is not prepared to spend less than one half of one per cent of
the $13.6 billion worth of coal shipped through the port each year to eliminate
dust from its rail stock.
The Newcastle Herald and community-based organisations
across the state have been campaigning for the introduction of physically
covered or chemically veneered coal wagons for the past two years.
Details of this development are explained in a Newcastle Herald story headed: “Chemical sealing train wagons put at 4¢ a tonne”.
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