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The Federal minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor has today announced he will attend the reopening of one of the coal mines which was evacuated last week due to the threat of bushfire . According to Mr Taylor's office, the Hume MP - who is responsible for the Coalition's climate change portfolio - will join with the British billionaire steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta to reopen Tahmoor Colliery tomorrow morning. Mr Gupta, the GFG Alliance boss, will donate a $250,000 cheque to the local community, Mr Taylor's office said. The minister's office noted Tahmoor Colliery employs about 400 people and is the biggest employer in the area. About 100 workers in the mine were evacuated last Thursday, when the massive GReen Wattle Creek fire threatened the area. Read more: Village of Balmoral all but wiped out by Green Wattle Creek bushfire On the same day - as Australia faced record breaking heat - two young fathers in the Rural Fire Service were killed when their truck overturned while they were fighting the southern Sydney fire at the nearby the town of Buxton. Numerous houses and properties in the area were also destroyed. A number of coal mines and power plants across NSW have been threatened by the fires, which University of Wollongong bushfire management expert Professor Ross Bradstock has called "the ultimate climate change feedback loop". Previously, Professor Bradstock has pointed out that the state's coal mining regions are vulnerable to fires likely driven by climate change. "We are facing really hard questions about mining and burning fossil fuels - we need to look at transition," he told AAP last month. Read more: The one item fire crews were able to save as Bargo family's caravan burned "[I]f a fire starts and gets into one of those coal mines, it would be a perfect storm. "Fires possibly being driven by climate change disrupting the industry and setting fire to a coal mine - that's perhaps when people might start to think carefully about whether we can keep going like this."

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