
Coal mine expansion may put green steel on back burner for decades
Green steel is on the backburner as a coal mine extension could lock in decades of supply to Australia’s biggest steel maker.
Green steel is on the backburner as a coal mine extension could lock in decades of supply to Australia’s biggest steel maker.
Clive Palmer’s planned central Queensland coal project appears likely to be rejected after the State Government published a damning assessment report claiming the planned mine posed “a number of unacceptable risks and is not suitable to proceed”.
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The re-emergence of black lung disease has led to new rules and regulations to better support more than 50,000 Queensland workers.
Coal will come back into political focus today as the State Government grants a mining lease to Pembroke Resources’ $1 billion Olive Downs mine in central Queensland.
Mining giant Adani has thumbed its nose at its critics and says it will ”well and truly” deliver more than 1500 jobs at its Carmichael coal project in central Queensland.
Eight young Australians are seeking an injunction against a federal minister to stop a NSW coal mine extension project from getting the all-clear.