It's time Whitehaven coal shareholders understood that degrading ecosystems, dividing communities and damaging the climate is a risky business.

Together with our friends at Quit Coal, on Monday the 4th of November, we'll gather outside Whitehaven's AGM, to explain exactly why.

Right now, Whitehaven is progressing plans for its Maules Creek mine - a 2000 hectare open-cut coal mine in NSW's beautiful Leard State Forest.

The mine will see 1600 hectares of unique bushland and farmland cleared, 700 hectares of which is classified as critically endangered. When fully operational, Maules Creek and its neighbouring Boggabri coal mine will destroy habitat for 396 native species, drain the local water table by up to 6-7 metres, pump 18,000 tonnes of coal dust onto surrounding communities and release 60 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per year - more than the emissions of 165 countries, including Sweden, Hungary and Finland. The annual emissions from Maules Creek alone will be almost equivalent to that of New Zealand.

By progressing Maules Creek, Whitehaven is locking us in to a future of angry summers, degraded ecosystems and divided communities.
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