Mining giant BHP would pay a bidder about $275 million to take the biggest coal mine in NSW off its hands even as prices of the fossil fuel soar to levels not seen since 2008.
A coal mine in the NSW Hunter Valley has leaked the equivalent of more than a million tonnes of carbon dioxide since it was mothballed in 2014 without any penalty or restriction.
This is as close to an African safari experience - bar the game drives - that any of us in Australia are likely to get anytime soon.
A field of 13 candidates is slugging it out for supremacy in the mining and farming community of the Upper Hunter.
A report by the Australia Institute has found filling in the region’s 23 mine voids would cost between $11.5 billion and $25.3 billion.
Pressure is mounting on the Berejiklian government to make good on its promise to extinguish fossil fuel extraction rights on the rich farmlands of the Liverpool Plains with two bills set to go before the NSW upper house.
There is much at stake at the Upper Hunter May 22 byelection with locals wanting “real talk” about what to do once coal is no longer king.
The downward trend is at odds with rhetoric from candidates vying for votes in the crucial Upper Hunter byelection.
Tracy Norman,a scion of one of the founders of the Harvey Norman retail empire,will run as an independent in the Upper Hunter.
Local indigenous groups say the area is an important historic site that was the likely staging ground for a massacre.
Shooters,Fishers and Farmers preselect businesswoman Sue Gilroy to contest the must-win Upper Hunter byelection.