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Our disappearing local natural environment
In NSW, it is almost as if the state government does not know how to knock back a coal mine proposal. It seems like no matter how special a particular place is, a coal company will be allowed to bulldoze it, rip up the coal, and leave it for dead.
There are several coal mining proposals in NSW at the moment, for example at Anvil Hill and at Moolarben, that would require thousands of hectares of precious habitat, home to scores of endangered species, to be razed to the ground. If these mines are approved, many local plant and animal populations will be pushed towards extinction.
After they have finished digging up the coal, the mining companies will leave a big super-saline void in the ground, next to a big mound of dirt that they'll grow some exotic grass in, and they will call it "rehabilitated."
