Environmental impacts of mining

The library of horrors. . .

School water contamination: cover-up must stop

Greens MP and health spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has called on the NSW Education Minister Verity Firth to release the detailed tests conducted in 2009 that show children in a further 35 NSW public schools had drinking water contaminated by lead, copper and E. coli.

Govt, Nile, Shooters unite against Greens bill protecting prime farming land from mining

Government MPs, the Shooters Party and Rev Fred Nile today indicated they will vote against a Greens bill in the NSW Upper House designed to protect prime agricultural land from mining. Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said farming communities from the Gloucester and Liverpool Plains regions would be understandably disappointed at the outcome.

Federal budget backs coal industry, kills off tens of thousands of jobs in Hunter

Greens MP and Hunter spokesperson Lee Rhiannon has said that the Rudd government budget support for the coal industry robs the Hunter of jobs growth transition programs in clean renewable energy technology.

Delta Electricity's water woes in central western NSW

A local minewatcher comments on a Prime TV News story about the woes faced by Delta Electricity due to dwindling water levels in Oberon Dam. Delta admitted they are critically dependent on fresh (ie. low salinity) water from the Fish River system to help dilute the toxic pollution they and the mining industry continue to dump into the Cox's River system.

Mining stalwart sees no future in carbon plan

Kevin Rudd should meet Graham Brown before he decides to spend billions of dollars on carbon capture and storage. A coalminer for more than 20 years, Brown retired in 2007 and is happy to call a spade a bloody shovel. (Paddy Manning, Sustainable Investing, Sydney Morning Herald - Business section, April 25, 2009)

China links coal use and birth defects

In further evidence that China's love affair with coal is drawing to a close, government officials admitted for the first time that there is a link between the rise in birth defects in certain regions and high levels of pollution. By Tom Young, BusinessGreen, 02 Feb 2009

NSW’s carbon burial gamble is a coal-fired distraction

Drilling for sites to store small amounts of liquefied carbon dioxide near Munmorah power station is being used as an excuse by the Rees government for inaction on developing a renewable energy industry, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.

Coal Mining 'on Steroids'

Coal Mining 'on Steroids' - New Mines Under Sydney's Water Supply are "the very worst of their kind". From the Total Environment Centre, 22 May 2008.