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Australian Conservation Foundation: New South Wales Coal Mine, Closed in 2014, Still Leaking Methane
August 13, 2021
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 13 (TNSRep) -- The Australian Conservation Foundation issued the following news release:

Glencore's Ravensworth underground coal mine in NSW, which was mothballed seven years ago, has quietly leaked methane equivalent to more than a million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), an investigation by the Australian Conservation Foundation has revealed.

That means the abandoned Ravensworth coal pit, which has not produced a lump of coal since 2014, . . .

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