Hunter's equine industry bucks Upper Hunter Mt Pleasant coal mine 22-year expansion plan

By By Gabriel Fowler
July 8 2022 - 7:00pm
Coal being loaded onto trucks at Muswellbrook's Mt Pleasant coal mine. Picture: Jonathan Carroll
Coal being loaded onto trucks at Muswellbrook's Mt Pleasant coal mine. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

A MOUNTAIN of overburden six kilometres wide, the equivalent of 12 Sydney Harbour Bridges, was a difficult image to escape at a coal mine expansion hearing in Sydney on Friday.

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