Environment News Service: New Zealand environmentalists have lost another round in their long-running battle to keep coal mining from destroying conservation land on the Denniston Plateau on the West Coast of the country`s South Island.
The Environment Court today ruled to allow Australian-owned Bathurst Resources Ltd. to construct an open cast, or open pit, coal mine on conservation land on the Denniston Plateau.
"The government is allowing one of the most unique native ecosystems in the world to be destroyed by Australian...