To make things confusing, the name of Waratah’s “China First” proposal has been changed on the Department of Infrastructure and Planning website. It is now apparently also called “Galilee Coal”. For anyone interested in commenting on Waratah’s Environmental Impact Statement, due out at the end of May 2011, they will need to keep their ears out for either, or both, names. Strangely, the Waratah Coal website still uses “China First”. You’d really have to wonder what’s going on behind the scenes.

Whatever the name is, the stunning sounds of Bimblebox will not be the same if Waratah’s proposed mine goes ahead: