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Rich Land, Wasteland
Munro, Sharyn

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Rich Land, Wasteland
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For nearly a year Sharyn Munro travelled through rural Australia, visiting the communities in coal-mining areas. She found a war zone. Here, literally at the coal-face, towns and districts are dying - homeowners and farmers forced out by mining, broken in spirit and in health, or else under threat, their lives and properties in limbo as they battle the might of huge mining companies developing ever larger mines and prospecting ever more widely for new coal deposits or coal seam gas.

Incidences of asthma, cancers and heart attacks show alarming spikes in communities close to coal mines and coal power stations. Once reliable rivers and aquifers are drying up or becoming polluted. Once fertile agricultural land is becoming unusable. What was once a rich land is becoming a wasteland. But the big, mostly foreign-owned, mining companies continue to push on with their ever expanding coal rush and government continues to help and protect them at the expense of rural communities. Ever more mining licences are being granted, ever bigger mines are being opened.

Sharyn Munro exposes the real story of coal in this life-changing book: how people are hurting, and rebelling, as coal pushes into hithero unthinkable areas; how the true costs really stack up against the benefits of our mining boom; and what's really happening to those individuals and communities who are ultimately paying the price.

Author Information

Sharyn Munro is a freelance writer, author, essayist and award-winning short story writer. She lives in the Hunter Valley in NSW. Her first book, The Woman on the Mountain, was published in 2007, and her second book, Mountain Tails in 2009.

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ISBN:
9781742610993

Binding:
Paperback

Pub. Date:
01/05/2012

Category:
Biography: General

Imprint:
Macmillan Australia

Pages:
464 page/s

Stock:
In stock

Price:
$29.99 AUD

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