Hunter community loses bid to block Yancoal expansion

By Peter Hannam
Updated August 27 2014 - 10:18pm, first published 9:33pm
Coal and farming clash in the Hunter Valley. Photo: Dean Osland
Coal and farming clash in the Hunter Valley. Photo: Dean Osland
Yancoal's Ashton coal mine near Camberwell in the Hunter Valley. Photo: Dean Osland
Yancoal's Ashton coal mine near Camberwell in the Hunter Valley. Photo: Dean Osland
Mine opponent: Wendy Bowan at Camberwell. Photo: Dean Osland
Mine opponent: Wendy Bowan at Camberwell. Photo: Dean Osland

A Hunter Valley community has lost its legal challenge to a major open-cut coal mine expansion by Chinese-controlled miner Yancoal - although final conditions on the project remain to be settled.

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