A drawn-out battle over some of Australia’s rarest woodlands has dogged the development of the $766 million Maules Creek mine in the Gunnedah Basin of north-west NSW.

Majority owned by Whitehaven Coal, clearing and construction on the open cut coal mine started in the middle of last year.

The company describes Maules Creek as a ‘world-class project’. But a new report indicates that Whitehaven may have breached environmental conditions attached to the mine’s approval.

Repost from RN Breakfast – New report challenges Whitehaven Coal approval