Central Queensland indigenous groups have rejected claims Wangan and Jagalingou elders had voted to support the Adani Carmichael Coal Mine and have confirmed legal action is still ongoing. Despite...
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Three cases of Black Lung have been detected in three months at coal mines in Queensland, in what could be the tip of the iceberg for a disease that had been wiped out in Australia half a century ago...
Community members gathered at the New Hope Annual General Meeting at Ipswich today to plead with the company’s shareholders to help landholders who will be negatively affected by proposed New Hope...
The Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Infrastructure project has been given the green light by the Federal Government, with 36 of the “strictest conditions in Australian history”. The central...
All coal mine workers have been withdrawn as a precaution from underground workings at Glencore’s Newlands coal mine near Glenden in the northern Bowen Basin. “Queensland Government mines...
BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance have said there will be no forced redundancies at its Blackwater Mine in a statement released after the Central Queensland town gathered last night to discuss the...
CLOSE to 1000 Blackwater residents gathered in full force last night to discuss BHP’s intention to contract out 300 permanent jobs at the Blackwater coal mine. The small, tight-knit community...
The New Hope Group has welcomed the Queensland Government’s decision to grant an Environmental Authority for the continuation of the New Acland Coal Mine. The $896 million stage 3 expansion of the...
Queensland Resources Council Chief Executive Michael Roche has urged the state Treasurer, Curtis Pitt, to take the time to listen to comments made by New Hope Group managing director Shane Stephan on...
Documenting the story of Queensland’s coalfields, the multi-award winning documentary, Blood on the Coal – the Queensland Miners’ Story, is set to play on the big screen screen on September 2...
