BROKE, Australia — Across the spectacular valley sprawling before Eden
Anthony's Australian homestead a new mountain has risen in the gritty distance
-- a towering heap of coal mine waste.
It is a cautionary tale for the Hunter Valley, a picturesque winemaking and
hobby farm area north-west of Sydney, which finds itself at the centre of a
growing resources controversy: the hunt for coal seam gas (CSG).
Mining is not new to the coal-rich Hunter region: vast open-cut pits dot the
landscape, linked to power stations and the nearby Newcastle docks -- the
world's biggest coal export port -- by a complex network of rail and road. Read More
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