HOTLINE – Premier Coal wants to respond quickly to any community concerns about the environment - 24 hours a day (Phone 08 97 802 222 or after hours 08 97 802 353). Alternatively, you can respond by e-mail by clicking on reception@premiercoal.com.au

Premier Coal fully supports the principles of Sustainability and places great emphasis on environmental management. The Company has an ISO14001 certified management system designed to assist in managing and improving our workplace environment.

The Premier Mine is located within the unique jarrah forests of the south-west of WA from which river drainage feeds the Wellington Dam. The Collie Basin itself is a major water reservoir, being one of the few, high-quality groundwater regimes in WA.

The region has, for over a century, been heavily logged and is affected in some areas by the jarrah dieback fungal disease – phytophthora cinnamomi.

The Premier Mine has adjacent rural dwellings that necessitate additional environmental management controls for noise and other potential impacts.

Our environmental management requirements include:

• Forest management – conservation, clearing, dieback control, weeds and feral animal control, rehabilitation;
  
• Water management – abstraction, utilisation and discharge;
  
• Final void water body management;
  
• Energy and Greenhouse;
  
• Waste;
  
• Blasting and general mine noise;
  
• Dust; and
  
• Community involvement, consultation and communications.

Premier places great emphasis on leaving disturbed mining areas in a sound environmental condition, designed to be compatible with existing landscapes and vegetation and, where possible, applies the principle of value-added rehabilitation. For instance, Premier Coal has three such projects well advanced - the return of the Western 2 mine services area to a motor sports and driver training complex, the return of the Western 5B mine void area into a 103ha lake for community recreation, and development of an aquaculture research farm at Western 5H.