Export coal emissions: consider the social impacts, don't just account for them | Georgina Woods

The mining lobby wants downstream emissions to be irrelevant but their impact on farmers is already real and far-reaching

Twelve years ago, in New South Wales, a landmark court case over a new coalmine called Anvil Hill found that downstream emissions - or "scope 3" - are relevant to the assessment of a mine's environmental impact.

So, when a state planning policy for mining was created six months later, these emissions were explicitly included in the matters to be considered when weighing up new coalmines.