Farmers in focus: Surrounded by coal mines

Wendy Bowman is an 83 year old farmer determined to keep farming and to protect the community’s health, land and water from encroaching coal mines. My name is Wendy Bowman. I farm in Camberwell, a small village in NSW, Australia, surrounded on three sides by coal mines. In 2010, Chinese-owned Yancoal proposed to extend an existing open … Read more