CHRISTIAN Democrat Upper House MP Fred Nile and newly-elected One Nation MP Mark Latham make an unlikely pairing in their support for NuCoal's "innocence" project over the controversial cancelled Doyles Creek mine.
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But a pairing they are.
Both men believe NuCoal investors are the "innocent" parties after the NSW Government under then Premier Barry O'Farrell cancelled the Doyles Creek mining licence following an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry.
The ICAC found the process by which the Doyles Creek exploration licence was granted was corrupted and the licence could be cancelled.
NuCoal's campaign has campaigned for compensation for NuCoal investors who saw their shareholdings collapse after the ICAC inquiry and licence cancellation.
Craig Chapman is one of a number of Jerrys Plains residents and farmers who questioned the granting of the licence from the day it was announced on Christmas Eve, 2008.
Mr Chapman is highly critical of NuCoal's campaign. He suggests Mr Nile and Mr Latham have a careful read of a 2014 ICAC document which canvassed issues around the government's cancellation of the licence, including whether shareholders could and should have known the risky nature of their investments.
ICAC established during the inquiry that the prospectus released by NuCoal for its Doyles Creek mine made clear the investment was risky and "speculative".
Evidence to the inquiry also made clear investors were not only aware of the controversy from mid 2009 about the granting of the exploration licence, but were questioning NuCoal executive Glen Lewis about it.
It's been a decade since Jerrys Plains residents started their fight against the Doyles Creek coal mine, and six years since NSW was shocked by the ICAC inquiries.
In 2014 a judicial review process considered NuCoal's view that the ICAC had not adequately heard the company's submission to it and was unsuccessful. An attempted appeal to the High Court was also unsuccessful.
On its website NuCoal said it had continued the "fight for justice and compensation for thousands of NuCoal shareholders", with success leaving NSW taxpayers the losers.
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