Mining companies leave many Queensland farmers’ land barren and broken. When they go belly up who pays for rehabilitation?

The collapse of Bowen Coking Coal and the mothballing of the Bluff mine highlight a growing insolvency risk in Queensland’s mining sector, where companies entering administration leave behind unpaid compensation claims and un-rehabilitated land—raising ongoing questions for insolvency practitioners, secured creditors, and regulators about who bears the cost of mine closure and rehabilitation obligations.

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