Stage 3 Project Approval

The Department of Planning granted project approval for the Stage 3 extension under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act in September 2009. The Stage 3 area consists of a single coal measure sequence of the early to late Permian Greta Coal. The Stage 3 extension allows Austar to extract up to 3.6 million tonnes of run of mine coal a year, which will be processed at the existing Pelton coal handling and preparation plant and taken to the port under existing approvals. The approval also includes construction and operation of new pit-top facilities on mine-owned land off Quorrobolong Road south of Kitchener.

The Stage 3 Project will sustain 275 jobs at the mine.

The Stage 3 Environmental Assessment is available for viewing on this website.