In 2015 the federal government's approval of the Adani Carmichael coal mine was set aside because the minister had failed to adequately consider the impact on two reptile species. Now the Shenhua mine in NSW faces a similar challenge because of concerns over its impact on a local koala population. Wendy Carlisle reports.
In 2015 the federal government's approval of the Adani Carmichael coal mine was set aside because the minister had failed to adequately consider the impact on two reptile species. Now the Shenhua mine in NSW faces a similar challenge because of concerns over its impact on a local koala population. Wendy Carlisle reports.
Not that she's particularly fazed about that. She's more worried about a local colony of koalas who happen to live on a set of ridges on the Liverpool Plains that are due to be demolished to make way for the controversial $1.2 billion Shenhua open-cut coal mine.
There were koala plans of management, there were koalas assessments, there were koalas studies, there was an enormous amount of material about koalas.