Environmental Issues
Coal mines have been linked to serious health and environmental problems in their local communities for centuries.
The oxymoronic “Clean Coal” marketing myth has been used to try to bury this dark past.
Nearly every community around the world with a coal mine near it still battles for recognition and compensation for various levels of local health and environmental crises.
News Reports:
The 7.30 Report
The Newcastle Herald
Call for research into mining health impacts in the Hunter Valley
14 Apr, 2010 06:27 PM
The Brisbane Times
Ipswich mine subsidence costs residents
By Georgia Waters | April 29, 2008
In Queensland unrest is mounting over the issue of balance between energy production farming and environmental protection Possible ground water contamination is being investigated . . . .