Forty staff at a Lithgow district coal mine are being made redundant as a result of a decision to suspend its operations. Centennial Coal is halting the Airly Mine at Capertee because of falling ...

"It is very hard for us to try and think of a town without coal." The mining industry employs approximately 800 Lithgow residents and they will have to find jobs elsewhere when the power station ...

A 'dying' town which was once hugely important to Australia's coal mining industry is set to be ... You're going to put one in Lithgow. You've got an old coal plant in Lithgow.

"No one is saying coal is the answer in 50 years' time, but it is now." Ben Smith, Lithgow mine worker New projects under construction were valued at $900 million, with 300 direct jobs for starters.

near Lithgow, has been in ‘care and maintenance’ mode since 2015, but operators Centennial Coal want to get the plant back up and running. The company also wishes to extend its mining area by ...

One of NSW’s oldest coal-fired power stations ... Wallerawang, located 14km north of Lithgow, was built in 1957 at the height of the Central Tablelands town’s mining boom.