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Mining benefits for Australia highly exaggerated: report

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 15, 2013 | 5:26 pm Energy Australia Europe Coal 

Australian resource companies routinely play down health and environmental effects of projects and overstate their economic and employment benefits, a new report commissioned by the Nature Conservation Council of NSW has found. The study, which analyzed seven NSW coal mining...

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