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Queensland's New Acland coal mine faces new appeal

5th June 2020

By: Esmarie Iannucci

Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Australasia

     

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PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Coal miner New Hope Group is seeking a meeting with the Queensland government over the next few days to discuss the future of its Stage 3 expansion at the New Acland mine, after the High Court of Australia granted community group Oakey Coal Action Alliance (OCAA) special leave to appeal an earlier ruling on the mine’s expansion.

The Queensland Court of Appeal in 2019 ruled against OCAA, finding that a Land Court decision in 2017 against the expansion of the mine had been affected by apprehended bias.

However, the ruling on Friday meant that the High Court would now hear OCAA’s argument.

New Hope told shareholders that OCAA was not challenging findings on groundwater or any other environmental issue that is relevant to the outstanding decisions still to be made by the Queensland government.

“In November 2018, the Land Court recommended grant of the project’s mining lease and environmental authority (EA). In March 2019, the government granted the project its EA and we see no reason why the government can’t also grant the outstanding mining lease and associated water licence,” said New Hope COO Andrew Boyd.

“We know, from discussions with various government departments, that they have all the information they need to grant the approvals. By acting now, the government will not only protect the current 150 jobs at New Acland, but will allow us to get moving on Stage 3 and create more than 450 new jobs and pump A$7-billion into the state economy.

“In the current environment, job creating projects like New Acland Stage 3 are vital for the state’s recovery,” Boyd said.

New Hope subsidiary, New Acland Coal, currently operates the existing New Acland mine as a 4.8-million-tonne-a-year opencut coal mine, however, the mine’s reserves are depleted. The Stage 3 expansion project will increase the mine’s yearly output to 7.5-million tonnes and will extend the operation’s life by some 12 years beyond the current end-date of mid-2020.

Edited by Creamer Media Reporter

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