Cover the coal wagons: Blue Mountains Unions and Community

By B.c Lewis
November 14 2017 - 4:30pm
Concerned about the air: BMUC members Nick Franklin and Peter Lammiman at Katoomba station will act as citizen scientists and measure the air themselves, concerned by the effects of coal dust from trains.
Concerned about the air: BMUC members Nick Franklin and Peter Lammiman at Katoomba station will act as citizen scientists and measure the air themselves, concerned by the effects of coal dust from trains.

The Blue Mountains Unions and Community group is so concerned that there is no air quality monitoring along the Blue Mountains rail corridor – with the nearest NSW Office of Environment monitoring stations at Bathurst and St Marys – that they are taking matters into their own hands.

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