New Acland coalmine: Queensland farmers win reprieve in battle to stop expansion
by Australian Associated Press from Environment | The Guardian on (#54B5X)
High court now will determine whether a new hearing on expansion graziers claim threatens Darling Downs should be ordered
Queensland farmers have been given a reprieve by the nation's highest court in their decade-long battle to stop a coalmine expansion.
But the company behind the controversial stage-three expansion of the New Acland coalmine says there is nothing stopping the state government from giving approvals for the project to go ahead.
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