THE NSW Government is committed to restarting the State's economy and will do so by developing resources, Resources and Energy Minister Chris Hartcher told the Government sponsored Minerals Exploration and Investment Conference in Sydney last week.
"NSW is a coal state, it's prosperity is founded on coal and one would hope the debate about coal would be conducted within the parameters of rationality rather than irrationality, a framework based on reason and science, not simple emotion," he said.
He said moving to renewable energy "could not be done with the flick of a switch" and coal seam gas as a transitional fuel was essential.
"Let's get rid of gas (they say), let's get rid of coal and somehow we'll all wake up in the new promised land.
"Ordinary people recognise the irrationality of that, but to have senior people in the social, economic and political framework actually arguing those propositions is the challenge we face in the government and in the minerals industry."
"There are many legitimate concerns over water, environment and farmland but we need to address them and work through, accepting a fundamental premise - that mining is at the very heart of the economy of this state."
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