Latrobe coalmines not paying enough for cleanup: Hazelwood fire inquiry

The Victorian government’s failure to raise the three mines’ rehabilitation bonds would expose taxpayers to a ‘significant proportion of the cost’ in case of defaultThe fourth and final report into Victoria’s Hazelwood coalmine fire in 2014 has highlighted a looming national problem: the huge cost of rehabilitating mines when they close.
The mine fire inquiry found rehabilitation bonds paid by the three open-cut coalmines in the Latrobe valley, east of Melbourne, we