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| NSW Farmers Association president Fiona Simson, she has objected to the mine. |
he ABC reports that the Federal Government
has given conditional approval for an open-cut coal mine near prime
agricultural land on the Liverpool plains in north-western New South Wales.
In 2008, Chinese company Shenhua paid the former state Labor
government $300 million for an exploration licence covering 20,000 hectares of
the Gunnedah Basin coal field.
The NSW Planning Assessment Commission approved the project
subject to several conditions in January this year.
Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt stalled the
assessment process in April and called for more scientific research into the
Watermark project's impacts on water resources in the area.
Read the ABC story
- “Federal Government gives conditional approval for open-cut coal mine on NSWLiverpool Plains”.
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