A coalition of six environmental and community groups are already waging a legal battle against the Rinehart part-owned Alpha coalmine, which would adjoin Kevin's Corner. |
Workers of the Yanzhou coalmine are readying themselves for a rescue exercise. |
Decisions granted immunity include controversial approvals in Queensland of dredging at Abbot Point, an LNG export facility at Curtis Island and a coalmine in the Galilee Basin. |
Pocock was arrested after chaining himself to the digger for 10 hours as part of a blockade at the Maules Creek coalmine in New South Wales's Leard state forest in November. |
The royal couple also talked to the families of the victims of the 1913 coalmine explosion. |
Apart from causing environmental damage, coalmine closures radically alter the landscape, giving rise to two problems. |