Mining

The Booming economies of China and India and their demand for our natural resources has re-invigorated the mining industry in the Hunter.

The positive effects are manifold:

Landscape

The landscape is often beautifully transformed from rolling green pastures to moonscapes. The mines do such a wonderful job of restoring the land after they're finished, it can barely be explained. To simulate this remarkable transformation, first dig the biggest hole you can in your backyard, throwing the dirt and clay into one big pile....leave it, then just plant grass on top of it

Employment

Mining creates a wealth of jobs for thousands of men who generally, have balls- for- brains.

Blokes who are ignorant and illiterate can gleefully earn over $100k a year in jobs where they can switch off and drive a great big truck back and forth all day (for instance). This could explain why so many miners are total dead-shits, who also think that the whole of the Hunter is indebted to them

Environment

Rising sea levels, Global warming, melting ice caps and every other effect of too much carbon is a small price to pay for a bunch of meat-heads to earn all that money, own a big house, a couple of investment properties, a 4-wheel drive and a boat.....and a fridge full of beer. It's only the environment