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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

NSW government hoses down suggestions Premier Dominic Perrottet was considering new state owned coal mines

Some of the 44,000 hectares of land that had been acquired for the state-owned Cobbora coalmine, which was proposed by the previous Labor state government, and abandoneed under the Coalition. Picture from The Land

THE NSW government has hosed down claims that Premier Dominic Perrottet was considering a new state-owned coalmine as part of its response to domestic coal shortages that power companies say are making it hard for the state's baseload generators to compete.

In an article on Wednesday, The Guardian quoted Mr Perrottet as saying the state could invest in new coal capacity if the private sector couldn't.

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