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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”

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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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