CONCERNS have been raised that forcing export coal mines to reserve up to a tenth of their output for domestic power stations could mean the return of coal trucks to the Hunter roads, reversing the successful results of a long community campaign to force all coal movements onto rail.
Fearing a shortage of coal for the National Electricity Market, the state and federal governments passed respective Energy and Utilities Administration Amendment Acts in the days before Christmas, with a series of directions to the coal industry as to how the Act would be interpreted.
