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    [edit] POV

    The article text appears to be more about coal use (or POV misuse) than about mining

    I removed this table from the article as the supplied reference does not give this statistic - it says that 85% of Australia's electricity is generated from coal:

    Major Domestic Uses of Coal[1]
    Use Tons PA %
    Energy generation ? 85
    Other ? 15

    Much of the fast facts appears to be copied directly from http://www.gc3.cqu.edu.au/modern-world/index.php without change - maybe copyvio?

    --Scott Davis Talk 09:32, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


    [edit] Climate Change

    This article is about Coal mining in Australia. The article has 3 paragraphs of text, the largest being climate change. I am removing the paragraph, as it is not specific to Coal mining in Australia but coal or climate change in general. The article needs a history of coal mining in Australia, discoveries of coal, early Australian coal mining techniques etc. RP Bravo 09:46, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Reinstating Climate Change

    The greatest single issue affecting the mining of coal in Australia today is climate change and the related water shortage issue. A court decision in the NSW Land & Environment Court ruled that climate change impacts had to be considered in assessing the application for approval of the Anvil Hill Coal Mine. There is consideration of a carbon tax or cap and trade scheme fderally and in most states which may dramatically impact on demand over time. New mines even for export are clearly going to be an environmental metaphoric battlefield. The issue of climate change cannot logically be excised from an article on coal mining. dinghy 08:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

    You say climate change cannot logically be excised from an article on coal mining - I'm sure you feel the same about oil, petrol, energy, energy policy etc, but I'm sure there is already a climate change article. You need to think of Wikipedia as an encyclopedia. If a topic has an article, the contents of that article don't need repeating in every single related article. I assert that this article is about coal mining in Australia. If there is a climate change issue that relates solely to coal mining in Australia (remember climate change is a global issue) then it belongs in the article - hence why I have left the paragraph on the environmental assessment for the Anvil Hill coal mine (despite the fact is it unreferenced). The paragraph I removed is not specifically about coal mining in Australia, even the heading it was given, Coal mining and climate change, states this. If the paragraph is justified in this article, it arguably justified in Coal, Gasoline, Fuel oil, Coal mining, Lackawanna Coal Mine, Longwall mining etc. - senseless repetition. RP Bravo 23:11, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Mining in Australia.

    This page should be added to the category Mining in Australia. 128.103.192.97 17:32, 8 August 2007 (UTC)Peter Grant

    Done. You could have done it yourself. --Scott Davis Talk 15:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)