RESIDENTS and community members lined up to fight another 22 years of mining at Muswellbrook's Mt Pleasant coal mine on Thursday which they fear will have serious impacts on the community's health and welfare, as well as heading in the wrong direction to tackle climate change.
The application to double the mine's annual yield and extend its lifespan to 2048 was described as the biggest coal mine expansion plan, in terms of its green house gas footprint and the amount of coal to be extracted, to come before the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) since it began in 2018.
