Controversial Bylong mine "approvable" despite landmark report urging severe coal cuts over next decade

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated January 30 2019 - 4:13pm, first published October 9 2018 - 4:00am
Warnings: IPCC chair Hoesung Lee speaks during a press conference in South Korea on Monday after release of a landmark report calling on governments to significantly curb coal consumption over the next decade to head off dangerous global warming. Picture: Associated Press Ahn Young-joon.
Warnings: IPCC chair Hoesung Lee speaks during a press conference in South Korea on Monday after release of a landmark report calling on governments to significantly curb coal consumption over the next decade to head off dangerous global warming. Picture: Associated Press Ahn Young-joon.

THE NSW Department of Planning has greenlighted a new Hunter coal mine as a landmark report warns of dangerous global climate change impacts if coal consumption is not significantly reduced over the next decade.

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