Muswellbrook's Mount Pleasant mine has fought off "lapsed consent" claim

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated July 24 2017 - 12:06pm, first published 12:00pm
Visit: Mount Pleasant managing director Scott Winter on the site outside Muswellbrook, only months after MACH Energy paid $220 million to Rio Tinto for the coal mine.
Visit: Mount Pleasant managing director Scott Winter on the site outside Muswellbrook, only months after MACH Energy paid $220 million to Rio Tinto for the coal mine.

MOUNT Pleasant coal mine owner MACH Energy has won a legal challenge that would have stopped the project in its tracks only months after paying $220 million for the site, after a NSW Land and Environment Court judge ruled former owner Rio Tinto had not let a December, 1999 consent lapse.

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