Whitehaven Coal is planning more new or expanded coal projects in Australia than any other company operating. Whitehaven Coal is the biggest undiversified coal company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and...
= existing coal mine = new coal project "Gorman North" project and Maules Creek expansion emissions not yet available. Data: Market Forces The Gorman North area was identified as an area for...
Whitehaven’s coal mines destroy Aboriginal land and water and sacred sites and erase cultural heritage. Whitehaven Coal’s mines have been strongly opposed by Gomeroi Traditional Owners. In 2014 the Gomeroi sought a...
Like many mining giants, Whitehaven uses political donations, lobbying and proximity to politicians to push for political outcomes that benefit them to the detriment of the environment and Australian democracy. Whitehaven are...
Whitehaven Coal are serial offenders who have broken the law and breached their environmental conditions over 100 times repeatedly broken the law, with devastating consequences for water, the environment, Aboriginal cultural heritage...
In 2020, eight young people and a nun led a landmark legal challenge against Whitehaven’s Vickery coal mine. In a world-first ruling in May 2021, Justice Bromberg of the Federal Court held...
Whitehaven’s Vickery extension project has federal environmental approval to clear up to 80 hectares of koala habitat. In making the approval decision, former Environment Minister Sussan Ley determined that the project ‘would...
Whitehaven recently purchased the Blackwater South project from BMA who referred the project for assessment under Federal environmental law in 2022. The project could impact more than 6,800 hectares of habitat, equivalent...
Whitehaven’s Winchester South project is the largest proposed green field coal mine in Australia. Whitehaven’s terrestrial ecology report for the project found that 314.5 hectares of koala habitat was identified to be...
Whitehaven’s Maules Creek mine has been approved to clear 1,665 hectares of threatened species habitat, including 544 hectares of endangered Yellow Box - White Box - Blakely's Red Gum grassy woodland. This...
Whitehaven’s Narrabri coal mine expansion threatens the Pilliga state forest and several iconic and threatened species such as the Regent Honeyeater, Koala, Pilliga mouse and Corben Long-eared bat. The NSW planning department’s assessment of...