MUSWELLBROOK Shire Council is to be commended for its efforts to do what the NSW government has refused to do.
The state government has presided over an almost ten-fold increase in the coal tonnage mined from the Muswellbrook Shire alone over the past 10 years. In doing so, it has enriched its own coffers in Sydney with coal royalties but has failed to make a fair reinvestment of mining proceeds in the region.
After years of complaints the government appears to be on the verge of producing a strategic plan to help manage competing land uses in the Hunter. Past disappointments, however, mean that many people in the region are pessimistic about the likely result.
Newcastle Herald
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