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Originally Posted by Paul
With other countries happy to strip mine and completely destroy whole swathes of land there is no way this country could have remained competitive in pricing within the mining industry. .
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I agree that's the case in our generation but with dwindling fossil fuel resources this wouldn't always have been the case. If cost hadn't been the only consideration, many of these mines could have been put on a care and maintenance basis and been financially viable in the future.
Some would actually be viable just now.
I'm sure future generations will look back at some of the decisions made in our time and be totally bewildered by them.