FARMERS have vowed to use every option at their disposal – including legal action – to stop Shenhua Watermark mining on the Liverpool Plains.
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The Caroona Coal Action Group (CCAG) will devote the next month to fine-tuning its arguments against the company’s proposed coalmine at Breeza.
The independent Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) will hold a final public hearing on Shenhua’s application on December 11 at Gunnedah.
A decision on the Chinese state-owned company’s controversial $1 billion open-cut coalmine will be handed down no later than January 20. The NSW Department of Planning and Environment announced on Wednesday that it had recommended the PAC approve Shenhua’s coalmine.
A spokesman said the department was satisfied the project would have no “significant impacts on aquifers or agricultural production”.
CCAG president Susan Lyle said the group’s members were sifting through the department’s full report in preparation for the final PAC hearing.
“We’re just looking at where we go to from here in terms of what is the best way forward,” she said.
