A COMPANY under administration has applied to restart and expand work at a Blue Mountains mine rejected previously due to "unacceptable environmental impacts," environmentalists say.
Coalpac Pty Ltd on Wednesday put a development application to mine 315 hectares of the Ben Bullen Forest, near Lithgow, on public display, the NSW Nature Conservation Council said.
"It is very disappointing that Coalpac has been permitted to submit new plans to destroy a significant area ... that the Office of Environment and Heritage has recommended should be protected in a conservation reserve," the group's chief Pepe Clarke said.
NSW planning minister Brad Hazzard last October referred himself to the state's corruption watchdog over allegations of a conflict of interest relating to the mine.
Media reports at the time claimed his chief of staff, Kath McFarlane, failed to disclose owning properties near the previously proposed coal mine extension, which was rejected by the planning department.
It was abandoned despite the support of Treasury and Trade and Investment, which was in favour of 150 direct jobs being created.
The allegations, Premier Barry O'Farrell said, were "baseless."
In 2010 a report commissioned by then-premier Bob Carr found the mine had caused hundreds of cliffs to collapse, damaged Aboriginal rock art and polluted drinking water supplies.
Comment is being sought from the government.
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