‘Cynical and grotesque’: NSW coalmine allowed to use future pit rehabilitation as offset for habitat destruction
by Lisa Cox from on (#5R09G)
Environment groups decry plan to use site regeneration years after operations end at Glencore's Mangoola mine as offsets
Habitat destruction caused by a new coalmine development in the New South Wales Hunter region will be offset through rehabilitation of the coal pit more than a decade after endangered ecosystems are cleared.
Environment groups have labelled the plan to allow future rehabilitation of the mine site to be claimed as part of Glencore's offsets for its Mangoola mine expansion near Muswellbrook as cynical and grotesque".
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