As the Australian-owned Bathurst Resources application to mine the Denniston Plateau wends its way through the Environment Court, local tramper Pete Lusk decries the miner’s bully-boy tactics restricting public access to conservation land More and more people are using the Buller Coal Plateau for recreation. Years ago it was just a few hunters and the […]
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Aura of Denniston Plateau under threat
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