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2014 NSW Minerals Council Expenditure Survey
The NSW Minerals Council’s latest Expenditure Survey has found that the 22 participating mining companies directly injected $13.6 billion into the NSW economy in 2013/14, up from $12.8 billion the previous year. The $13.6 billion of spending in 2013-14 included $2.9 billion in wages and salaries to 21,516 full-time employees and $9.6 billion […]
Industry17 November 2014
Free Trade Agreement with China
“ The Free Trade Agreement with China is a welcome development for the NSW mining industry that will help secure jobs and underpin future investment across the state. Successive Australian Governments deserve appreciation for their efforts in pursuing and securing this valuable international agreement for the people of NSW. The FTA will build upon […]
Industry17 November 2014
Planning System delays costing NSW jobs and millions
“ Increased delays in the NSW Government’s broken planning system are costing jobs, investment and royalty revenue for our state. A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers has revealed that changes made in 2011 by the NSW Government to the Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) process have added an average of over five months to planning applications […]
Industry7 November 2014
The Australia Institute jumps the shark again
“ In their latest attack on mining, the Australia Institute have ‘jumped the shark’ yet again. Only this time they have ‘jumped the shark’ while skiing on the back of a shark and wearing a sharkskin suit. “Today they are seriously claiming that some of the world’s largest energy companies don’t actually supply […]
Industry7 November 2014
Job losses at Mt Arthur
“ The latest announcement of job losses at Mt Arthur Coal is a further sign of the tough times the NSW coal industry is facing, due to the cyclical downturn in coal prices. Sadly, this has meant job losses, with over 4000 direct coal production jobs now lost in NSW over the last two […]
Industry4 November 2014
OPINION: Plague of greenies consuming mining jobs
This opinion piece first featured in the Daily Telegraph Wednesday 29th October 2014 In July last year I was asked to speak at a town meeting in regional NSW, where the local community was suffering from local mining job losses. Picture: Craig Greenhill A young schoolteacher stood up and told of children coming to her […]
Industry29 October 2014
OPINION: It’s time for the NSW Govt to find its spine
This opinion piece by NSW MInerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee was published in the . The NSW Government would never treat workers in Sydney in such a way. Or would it? On Tuesday, 500 hardworking miners from Anglo American’s Drayton South mine in the Upper Hunter woke to the news that their jobs had been […]
Uncategorized25 October 2014
Business leaders say govt needs to ‘get real’ about coal and the Hunter economy
Hunter Valley business leaders have labelled the NSW planning system ‘onerous’ and ‘unreasonable’ following the likely loss of at 500 local jobs in mining and the supply chain. The Muswellbrook Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the Planning Assessment Commission’s decision to reject the Drayton South Project, which had already been endorsed with conditions […]
Industry22 October 2014
Mine management meeting with Drayton staff over future
Senior management at Anglo American are today meeting with employees at the company’s Drayton mine in the Hunter Valley who are now faced with the loss of their jobs following the rejection of the proposal for a mine extension. Workers at the site are still coming to terms with the shock decision and the […]
Industry22 October 2014
Hunter Heartbreak: Human cost of NSW Govt decisions as the devastation begins to sink in
The mining industry and supply chain businesses in NSW have suffered a ‘brutal double blow’ following the Planning Assessment Commission’s rejection of two coal mine projects in regional NSW. The Anglo American Drayton South mine and Cullen Bullen project in the Blue Mountains will not go ahead, despite high public support and the potential […]
Industry21 October 2014
NSW Government abandons hundreds of workers in regional NSW
“ “Today’s PAC outcomes on the Drayton South and Coalpac projects are a brutal double-blow for working people in regional NSW, and suggests that the NSW Government is prepared to stand by and do nothing while hundreds lose their jobs,” NSW Minerals Council CEO Stephen Galilee said today. “It’s a black day for jobs […]
Industry21 October 2014