Hunter Valley ponders a future of dwindling coal | p_hannam
Hunter Valley councils and unions are preparing for a future without coal but say curbs on the Port of Newcastle imposed after the privatisation of ports near Sydney and Wollongong will hold back the transition.that are stepping up efforts to promote farming, renewable energy and tourism to wean the local economy off fossil fuels.
“It’s not so much about replacing coal, it’s about diversification,” Cr Moore said, noting some mines are getting approval for 20 years more or longer. "The mining industry’s not going to shut down tomorrow.” "There’s no use talking about diversification and opportunities for the Hunter to have access to the rest of the world without having those channels to get those products – whatever they may be – out," she said. “Compensation’s good, compensation’s where things need to start, to get things to happen.”
"The excluded areas were already ruled out as a result of stand-alone planning decisions and the new areas appear to have been selected purely by reference to economic considerations but not to other considerations – such as levels of community support, land-use conflict or environmental considerations," he says.
The federal policy director of The Wilderness Society, Tim Beshara, said it was "complete lunacy" to plot new mines in some of the areas earmarked in the Hunter region.
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