In a week where national attention is rightly focussed on the potential approval of the North West Shelf project, Tuesday’s quiet approval of the Tahmoor Colliery could prove to be one of the NSW government’s biggest setbacks to achieving its 2030 emissions targets. Tahmoor colliery is a super-emitting underground coal mine. In 2024, it released the equivalent of more than a million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, before any of its coal was burned. Thanks to this new approval, the mine is estimated to release up to 11.5 million tonnes more of CO₂e over the next 8 years.As coal mines go, it is the second most emissions-intensive coal mine in NSW, and thanks to this week’s approval, it could be on track to become the most intense emitting coal mine in the state by the end of the decade.
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