Drayton, Coalpac knockbacks a 'brutal double blow' for coal miners in NSW

By Peter Hannam
Updated October 27 2014 - 10:13am, first published October 21 2014 - 5:21pm
Saved from the coal mine expansion at South Drayton. Photo: Peter Stoop
Saved from the coal mine expansion at South Drayton. Photo: Peter Stoop
Ben Bullen State Forest near the Coalpac project. Photo: Ben Cubby
Ben Bullen State Forest near the Coalpac project. Photo: Ben Cubby

The coal industry in NSW has suffered a "brutal double blow" following the rejection by the Planning Assessment Commission of two open-cut mine expansions in the Hunter Valley and the Blue Mountains, the NSW Minerals Council said.

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