Feature Articles

Wednesday 16. of July 2008 Watercourses and Discourses: Coalmining in the Upper Hunter Valley, New South Wales

Water is a resource that both unites and divides people in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, where many communities are facing the prospect of large-scale open-cut coalmining developments on productive mixed use land,...

Thursday 17. of April 2008 Brief History of Bickham Coal Mine Proposal

In February 2001, Bickham Coal (BC) presented a plan to the then Murrurundi Council to take out a 25,000 tonne bulk sample of coal next to the Pages River, South of Blandford, as the first stage of a 25 million tonne open cut...

Thursday 17. of April 2008 Newspoll findings

In 2006 BCAG conducted a Newspoll in the Upper Hunter Shire to gauge community opinion about the mines.

Here is the summary

Thursday 17. of April 2008 Why we don't trust Bickham Coal Company

It's like having a volcano growing in the Shire. A little hill one day, a mountain the next.

Friday 11. of April 2008 Coal is Toxic

Mother Nature knew what she was doing when she buried organic coal sediments deep underground within sedimentary layers of rock.

By Pauline Roberts PHD., B.SC. (HONS)., DBM