Mount Pleasant coal mine inspection left regulator doubting if mine had 'good understanding' of rehabilitation

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated February 19 2020 - 12:58pm, first published October 2 2019 - 8:00am
Risks: Significant erosion in the overburden emplacement rehabilitation area at Mount Pleasant coal mine near Muswellbrook. Picture: Resources Regulator.
Risks: Significant erosion in the overburden emplacement rehabilitation area at Mount Pleasant coal mine near Muswellbrook. Picture: Resources Regulator.

THE Hunter's newest coal mine rated a severe or prolonged drought an "unlikely" risk to its rehabilitation work even as severe drought affected its rehabilitation and revegetation efforts, a critical audit of its first 18 months of operations has shown.

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