To supply Tarong Power Station beyond 2010 the Queensland Government has indicated its preferred fuel source will be New Acland connected by a conveyor belt.

A total of 300 staff were expected to be working at the New Acland Mine in 2009,[5] producing 4.2 million tonnes of coal a year.

[9] The graziers are concerned that the approval for the mine's expansion will threaten their Darling Downs community and water supply.

[1] In March 2012, the incoming Newman government announced it did not support the proposed New Acland Coal Mine Stage 3 Project in its then current form.

[14] The revised project has also been changed so that the mining operations will sit 10 km from the township of Oakey; the introduction of profiling and veneering technology at the project's rail loading facility and no longer require that the Lagoon Creek be diverted for mining operations.

[15] On 9 November 2012 the Commonwealth Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities confirmed it had accepted the modified project proposal.

The controlling provisions for the assessment of the project under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth) were unchanged.

[16] On 26 March 2013, the Queensland Coordinator-General released the final Terms of Reference (ToR) for the New Acland Coal Mine Stage 3 Project.

On 22 August 2019, New Acland Thermal coal mine workers were made redundant as the stage 3 deadline approached.