Coal Resource Library

The Environment Court of New Zealand overturned the resource consent granted to a mining company to develop an open-cast coal mine on the ground that the project would pose unacceptable impacts to biodiversity.

The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission refused an application to expand the Glendell coal mine on the grounds that the mine would cause significant and irreversible impacts on heritage by its impacts to a colonial homestead complex. The Commission also found that the proposal would harm Aboriginal cultural values.

The U.S. District Court remanded the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for the proposed expansion of a coal mine because the agency quantified the project’s socioeconomic benefits in terms of jobs, royalties, tax revenue and positive downstream economic impacts, but did not quantify the costs of GHG emissions.

The National Green Tribunal ordered coal mining and energy companies to implement a series of measures to reduce environmental pollution and health impacts associated with their facilities operating in the Tamnar and Charghoda coal blocks in the state of Chhattisgarh. The Tribunal declared that no expansion of mining or industrial activities in the area could be approved until a thorough environmental carrying capacity study is completed.