Court hears Clarence coal slurry into Wollangambe River a "disaster waiting to happen" | Graph, Infographic

By Phoebe Moloney
Updated July 14 2017 - 2:04pm, first published May 9 2017 - 10:14am
IN COURT: EPA's legal representatives Eric Bateman and barrister Stephen Rushton SC exit the Land and Environment Court.
IN COURT: EPA's legal representatives Eric Bateman and barrister Stephen Rushton SC exit the Land and Environment Court.

Senior executives of Centennial Coal sat alongside conservationists on Monday, May 8, as the Land and Environment Court in Sydney was told how a series of negligent actions at the company's Clarence Colliery led to more than one hundred tonnes of coal fines escaping into a river of the Blue Mountains National Park near Lithgow.

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