Comment: A proposal to fill old coal mines with water to drought-proof large parts of NSW has an enchanting role model overseas. The question is whether we have Germany's ingenuity | emfarrelly
parts of NSW by turning open-cut coal pits into reservoirs sounds like slaking hope. For the Hunter Valley, a once-luscious landscape blighted by coal mines and ravaged by drought, it seems to promise healing. And from a government still flogging coal and stonewalling climate change, it sounds strangely like a glimmer of strategic intelligence.
But what is the Hunter Valley Lakes Corporation? Google yields a Daily Mail description of this “five-month old company registered in The other difference is ancientness of cultivation. Lusatia’s 2000-odd hectares of ex-mines sit within 30,000 hectares of what was once marshland, cultivated since the 7th century with productive fishing ponds, heath farming and other eco-sensitive food generation.
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