Rod Campbell

While all attention is on federal Coalition climate denial, the NSW Labor Government just keeps expanding coal mines.

For example, climate arch villains Peabody are trying to expand the Wilpinjong mine near Mudgee, with submissions published today, including ours.

You might remember Peabody from the “Advanced Energy for Life” PR campaign, which tried to argue that the coal industry was really interested in helping poor people get out of “energy poverty”. It didn’t work out well.

Hilariously, Peabody itself does not donate any money, staff time, expertise or discounted fuel to anti-energy poverty projects around the world. In fact, the handful of coal companies that did participate in energy poverty alleviation projects did so…by funding renewable energy.

Back in Mudgee, Peabody are proposing a mine expansion that they say would lose them $123 million.

Why would they do that?…because it would facilitate a huge future expansion that would be disastrous for the climate and the community in Wollar near the mine.

The NSW Government is also looking to expand the neighbouring Ulan mine, the huge Hunter Valley Operations mine and a bunch of others.

This is the main game!! Coalition climate denial and Labor renewable talking points are diversions!

No new coal mines!