A new coal mine near Gloucester on the NSW mid-north coast has been refused by the Chief Justice of the Land and Environment Court, who ruled the development would increase greenhouse gas emissions at time when they urgently need to be cut.
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| Members of the community group Gloucester Groundswell attended the hearing. |
Gloucester Resources Limited took the NSW Planning Minister to court over the matter after his delegate, the Independent Planning Commission, rejected the company's application for the Rocky Hill mine in late 2017.
The company argued the development would have created 170 jobs, with the mine expected to produce 21 million tonnes of coal over 16 years.
Read the ABC News story by Meredith Griffiths - “Rocky Hill mine plans quashed in Land and Environment Court.”
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