{"id":920079,"date":"2026-10-08T01:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920079\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T01:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T01:56:10","slug":"australia-news-live-joe-hockey-says-corruption-flourishing-in-washington-high-court-decision-on-hunter-coal-mine-expansion-set-to-ripple-across-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/920079\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Joe Hockey says corruption flourishing in Washington; High Court decision on Hunter coal mine expansion set to ripple across sector"},"content":{"rendered":"

NSW Premier Chris Minns says activists shouldn\u2019t get overexcited by a High Court decision that halted the expansion of a Hunter Valley coal mine, saying there are no plans to change the state\u2019s laws to protect other extensions.<\/p>\n

\"NSWNSW Premier Chris Minns.Audrey Richardson<\/p>\n

After the High Court ruled in favour of a Hunter Valley residents\u2019 group, which halted the Mount Pleasant mine expansion last year, Minns described the judgment as a \u201cvery narrow, technical decision\u201d that he didn\u2019t believe would affect approvals for expansions of other mines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I\u2019d say about the High Court\u2019s decision from yesterday is that I don\u2019t think everyone should overreact to the decision, and I also don\u2019t think that activists who are considering court action should get overexcited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Independent Planning Commission ruled in favour of The Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) application to continue operating until 2045. Minns drew a distinction between Mt Pleasant\u2019s initial 2022 application, which did not account for emissions burned from the coal sold overseas (known as scope three), and the HVO approval. Minns argued that the laws had been strengthened since then, which he said was evident in the IPC\u2019s decision to consider scope three emissions in its approval of the HVO expansion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt did take into consideration the point of law that was contested in the High Court. I think the rules that are in place today are better, more informed, and more understanding of the of mining and the environmental impacts than they were previously,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NSW Premier Chris Minns says activists shouldn\u2019t get overexcited by a High Court decision that halted the expansion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-920079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}