Wallarah 2 boss Kenny Barry says coal has important role to play around the world 'for a long, long time'

By David Stewart
Updated May 15 2018 - 2:30pm, first published 11:41am
Parts of coal core samples, stored in plastic garbage bins, in the Wyong Coal storage facility at Tuggerah. Picture: David Stewart
Parts of coal core samples, stored in plastic garbage bins, in the Wyong Coal storage facility at Tuggerah. Picture: David Stewart

IN approving the Wallarah 2 coal mine earlier this year, the NSW Planning Assessment Commission made several references to the risk of “unplanned early mine closure” because of the uncertainty facing global coal.

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