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Local community votes in favour of Rinehart's Grassy Mountain project

The Australian billionaire is determined to open coal mine that is “not in the public interest”

Isabeau van Halm
Abandoned Grassy Mountain coal mine in Alberta, Canada.

Abandoned Grassy Mountain coal mine in Alberta, Canada. | Credits: Keith McClary via Wikimedia Commons

After a campaign that wouldn't look out of place during the US elections, Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart won over a local community that voted in support of a proposed metallurgical coal mine...

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