WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT
The owners of an abandoned coal mine spewing out dangerous emissions on the fringe of Australia’s biggest city have today moved to assure everyone that everything is sweet.
“Hahaha chillllllllll guys,” laughed a spokesperson for South32, who owns the mine in question.
“It’s all sweet, don’t worry about it.”
“Trust us, it’s fineeeeee,” explained the operator of the Appin Mine, whose North Cliff operations are leaking huge amounts of gas into the Dharawal National Park on the fringes of Sydney.
Despite being closed nearly 30 years ago, the North Cliff site is still spouting huge amounts of methane.
On top of being up to 80 times more harmful to the environment than CO2, the billowing methane is also not ideal for the rainforest and community who live around it – especially heading into a summer in a warm country that has a long history of bushfires.
“Oh, don’t be so precious,” laughed the spokesperson for the mine operator.
“Bushfires happen all the time, just cause our abandoned mine, I mean ‘closed and rehabilitated mine’, is leaking gas into a tinderbox on the edge of Sydney and Wollongong, doesn’t mean people should be concerned.”
“If anything happens the government will just clean up the mess anyway.”
“That’s how these things work.”
“We rip resources out of the ground, pay bugger all tax, spin them whatever emissions numbers we feel like and then just leave the finished mine there for someone else to deal with.”
“And then the government just ignores the emissions and pretends that everything is on track.”
“It’s a match made in heaven.”
More to come.
