SocietyApproval of NSW’s biggest coal project called an ‘infamous betrayal’

New South Wales’ Independent Planning Commission has approved the Hunter Valley Operations Continuation Project, allowing mining to continue until 2045. It said climate impacts would be outweighed by jobs, economic activity and public revenue. Climate groups condemned the decision as a catastrophic planning failure and a “carbon bomb”.

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