The coal hard facts: you can't fill pits with water unless it rains

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Comment: A proposal to fill old coal mines with water to drought-proof large parts of NSW has an enchanting role model overseas. The question is whether we have Germany's ingenuity | emfarrelly

parts of NSW by turning open-cut coal pits into reservoirs sounds like slaking hope. For the Hunter Valley, a once-luscious landscape blighted by coal mines and ravaged by drought, it seems to promise healing. And from a government still flogging coal and stonewalling climate change, it sounds strangely like a glimmer of strategic intelligence.

But what is the Hunter Valley Lakes Corporation? Google yields a Daily Mail description of this “five-month old company registered in The other difference is ancientness of cultivation. Lusatia’s 2000-odd hectares of ex-mines sit within 30,000 hectares of what was once marshland, cultivated since the 7th century with productive fishing ponds, heath farming and other eco-sensitive food generation.

 

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emfarrelly Not with some of our politicians

emfarrelly I just love how someone living in Surry Hills knows so much more about agriculture than farmers do and more about rehabilitating former coal mines than those in the mining industry.

emfarrelly It will rain again and we need to be ready for it. You always plan in advance; not in the middle of a problem.

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