Excellent research from Lock The Gate Alliance Inc, revealing the vast landholdings of mining companies across New South Wales: The holdings, amounting to 284,093 hectares across eight local government areas, include 20,470 hectares of leases in state forests and other public lands. Mining also accounts for significant shares of agricultural land in those two areas, with 23-27 per cent of the Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land held by the coal companies. The original information can be found here: lockthegate.org.au/flogging_the_farm
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:51:31 +0000
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