New South Wales and coal

Coal export terminals

 * Kooragang Coal Terminal is operated by Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) Limited and is located in Newcastle, Australia. The terminal has a capacity of 88 million tonnes per year.


 * Port Kembla Coal Terminal is managed by BHP Billiton on behalf of a consortium of coal companies comprising Illawarra Coal, Centennial Coal, Xstrata Coal, Tahmoor Coal, Peabody and Gujarat NRE. The terminal has a capacity of 15 million tonnes per annum but exports approximately 10 to 11 million tonnes a year.


 * Carrington Coal Terminal is operated by Port Waratah Coal Services Limited (PWCS) and located in Newcastle, Australia. The terminal has an annual capacity of 25 million tonnes per year.

Coal & Allied mines
Coal & Allied, is 75% owned by Rio Tinto Coal Australia (RTCA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto. , operates three mines in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. These are:
 * the Hunter Valley Operations mine;
 * the Mount Thorley Warkworth mine; and
 * the Bengalla mine.

Hunter Valley Energy Coal
Hunter Valley Energy Coal, a wholly owned subsidiary of BHP Billiton, operates the Mt Arthur Coal mine in the Hunter Valley in Australia.

Illawarra Coal mines
Illawarra Coal, a wholly owned subsidiary of BHP Billiton, operates the:
 * Appin mine;
 * the West Cliff mine; and
 * the Dendrobium mine.

Peabody Energy Australia mines
Peabody Energy Australia, a subsidiary of Peabody Energy, owns the:
 * Wilpinjong Mine;
 * Wambo Mine; and the
 * Metropolitan Mine.

Xstrata's coal mines

 * Westside Colliery, open cut, 80% Xstrata Coal;
 * West Wallsend Colliery, Undergound, 80% Xstrata Coal;
 * Bulga Coal, Open cut, 68.25% Xstrata Coal;
 * Beltana mine, Underground, 68.25% Xstrata Coal;
 * United mine, Underground, 95% Xstrata Coal;
 * Narama mine, Open cut, 100% Xstrata Coal;
 * Mangoola Coal mine, Open cut, 100% Xstrata Coal;
 * Mt Owen mine, Open cut, 100% Xstrata Coal;
 * Liddell Colliery, Open cut, 67.5% Xstrata Coal;
 * Cumnock mine, Open cut, 100% Xstrata Coal;
 * Ravensworth mine, Open cut, 100% Xstrata Coal;
 * Ulan Coal mine, Underground and open cut, 90% Xstrata Coal;
 * Baal Bone mine, Underground and open cut, 74.1% Xstrata Coal;

Coal & Allied
Coal and Allied has a number of other projects under consideration including:
 * the Carrington West Extension; a possible extension of mining at Hunter Valley Operations, north of the Hunter River.
 * the Warkworth Extension to "extend mining within its existing lease at the Mount Thorley Warkworth mine"; and
 * the Mount Pleasant Project.

Xstrata's coal projects

 * Cardiff Borehole coal project, 80% Xstrata Coal;
 * Mitchell's Flat coal project, 100% Xstrata Coal;
 * Glendell coal project, 100% Xstrata Coal;
 * Running Stream coal project, 78% Xstrata Coal;

Shenhua Watermark Coal

 * Watermark Project; a coal exploration project located on the Liverpool Plains near Gunnedah.

Citizens groups campaigning on coal issues

 * Bickham Coal-Mine Action Group, Hunter Valley
 * Caroona Coal Action Group, Hunter Valley
 * GRIP, Gloucester, Hunter Valley
 * MWcan - Mid Western Community Action Network
 * People Against Coal Extraction (PACE), Newcastle
 * Rising Tide, Newcastle
 * Rivers SOS, Hunter Valley
 * Save the Drip, Mudgee, Hunter Valley
 * Wybong Action Group, Hunter Valley

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Australia and coal
 * Queensland and coal
 * Victoria and coal
 * Coal terminals

External resources

 * P. Brown, A. Cottrell, M. Searles, L. Wibberley and P. Scaife, "A Lifecycle Assessment of the New South Wales Energy Grid", Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development, October 2006. (Pdf).
 * The Climate Group (Australia), "This Week’s Emissions: New South Wales", The Climate Group website, accessed August 2010. (This webpage provides an estimate of total greenhouse gas emissions over the previous week and preceding year. It account for nearly all emissions from power generation).

External articles

 * Wendy Frew, "King coal under siege", Sydney Morning Herald, December 2, 2006.