Link to more photos Maps of mining proposals & Goulburn RiverTo impacts of miningMining Project details - Moorlarben, Wilpinjong & Ulan CoalLink to related sites updated 6 August 2008

The Drip Gorge Goulburn River threatened by the Moolarben Coal Mine proposal



The clearing of this CEEC Grassy Box Woodlands has been approved by the Dept Environment under EPBC Ac
t- refer Biodiversity link
Come along to the GetUp Climate Torch event at The Drip Gorge Reserve Monday 18 August. 11am – 2pm. Bus leaving Mudgee at 10 am Email for details

STOP PRESS !!!!!!
Moolarben Coal Mine announces Stage 2
Link to LATEST UPDATE on Mining

The COAL RUSH continues with companies strategically positioning and jostling for energy resources while locking in governments to a carbon-based future.

The open cut footprint
from these mines
is equvilent to a
1km wide X 52 kms long
hole from Mudgee to the Goulburn River

Moolarben Coal Project (Felix Resources) was granted a Mining Lease plus an additional 1145 hectares of exploration licences .
 
Ulan Coal Mine (Xstrata) has also applied for an increase in coal production
20MT/annum and a 21 year lease - this involves a new underground mine (Ulan West) and a further extension to the open cut.

By 2012 these mines could be extracting over 40 million tonnes per year of coal from the Ulan Wollar area. This amount of fossil carbon fuel will
produce over 100 million tonnes of greenhouse gases
exceeding the total emissions from the whole transport system for Australia
(79 Million tonnes CO2-e - ABS 2004 ).

MOOLARBEN MINE DISASTER IN THE MAKING
Press release - Mudgee District
Environment Group -

For more information contact Bev Smiles 63734330 or 0428817282

 

??Will the NSW Government's
'Conditions of Approval' be enough to protect the Goulburn River???

Links to other areas of the State also affected by Coal Mining ..............

RiverSOS
Caroona Coal Action Group
Caroona, Liverpool Plains
Anvil Hill Alliance,
Wybong, Upper Hunter
Wyong Aust Gas Alliance
Wyong Valley
Bickham, Pages River
Upper Hunter

BARRINGTON-GLOUCESTER-STROUD Preservation Alliance also see
Rising Tide Website
Hunter Environment Lobby
Hunter Community Environment Centre

EFFECTS OF MINING
Water
Loss of Biodiversity
Social Impacts
Land degradation
Global Warming....

Iemma Labor Government approves another huge coal mine

Minister Sartor’s approval of this huge coal mine at the top of the Hunter Valley is a reckless act that shows no regard for our environment, viability of our rivers and water resources, cohesion of our rural communities or global warming.

This decision will put at serious risk the Goulburn River and associated groundwater system as well as threatening the stability of magnificent sandstone gorges along the Goulburn River.

NSW State Government

Email: Premier Iemma

Hon. Frank SARTOR, MP
Email:
Minister for Planning
Level 34
Governor Macquarie Tower
1 Farrer Place SYDNEY NSW 2000
Phone (02) 9228 4700
Fax (02) 9228 4711
office@sartor.minister.nsw.gov.au

FEDERAL MINISTERS

PENNY WONG MP
Minister for Climate Change & Water
Parliament Contact:
Tel: (02) 6277 7920
Email: info@pennywong.com.au

PETER GARRETT MP
Minister for the Environment
EMAIL

[T] 02 9349 6007
[F] 02 9349 8089

Mudgee District Environment Group
Enquiries about this webpage Email
Ph: (02) 6372 2420
Fax: (02) 6372 2420
PO Box 114 Mudgee NSW 2850

Bev Smiles
Chairperson
npovah@yahoo.com
0263734330

Jocelyn Hulme
Secretary

Monthly Meetings
4th Thursday/month
4pm Uniting Church Hall, Mortimer St Mudgee (across from Woolworths)

 

 

 

 


 




 

 

  

The Climate Change Torch is a GetUp initiative.

The aim of the Climate Torch Relay is to raise community awareness and grass roots action on Climate Change.

The Save the Drip campaign was chosen because it highlights the environmental damage of coal mining as well as the climate damage from burning coal.

Mudgee Green Pedal Tours will bring the Torch to The Drip Picnic Area
at 11am Monday, 18th August.


 The event will include:
- Performance by a group of Wiradjuri dancers
- Presentation on Climate Change by Nell Schofield
Nell is a media TV and radio presenter and one of
Al Gore’s climate change messengers. She will be coming straight from hosting the Live Green Event in Sydney.
- Information and display of solar power alternatives including the Climate Change Torch (solar, wind, people & lemon powered) and a new proposal to build a 20MW Solar thermal Plant near Gulgong that is currently being investigated by the Mudgee Environment Group.

After the ceremony there will be a walk down to the Drip Gorge and a send off for the Climate Change Torch on its next leg down the Hunter Valley to Gosford.

.....................Help us stop the
Coal industry from destroying our groundwater and rivers...
Why?
Mining threatens many catchments:

Goulburn River Gorges - Upper Hunter Valley
Waratah Riverlet, Nepean & Cataract Rivers - Sydney Water catchment
Wyong River Catchment - Wyong Valley
Caroona - Liverpool Plains
Mammy's Creek - Gloucester
Pages River - Bickham Upper Hunter

It also destroys the biodiversity
and natural heritage;
fracture local communities
and fuels climate change...
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Articles, Reports & Facts
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Transforming the Hunter into a Renewable Hub - Green Report

Submission to NSW Task Force on Coal Mining Impacts - Coal affected Communities

How is Coal Toxic -

Climate Futures Bill
Speech by John Kaye Greens

PEAK COAL: Sooner than you think!
What is Clean Coal? Some facts..
 
Tough Decisions on Coal
by Ian Dunlop (former Coal Co. Executive)

Report by Total Environment Centre
Impacts of Long wall Mining
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Media Snippets

Neighbours Dig in..SMH

Mine Fuelsthe Fire SMH

"Mining our water too!"
'Land' Article by Alan Dick
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Quotes:

"Nature is the infrastructure of the economy, it's the best investment."

Robert Kennedy jnr speaking in South Australia
Feb 2008. The Stern Review commissioned by the British Government states:
"There is overwhelming evidence that climate change is a serious and urgent issue needing strong and urgent global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions"

A INCONVENIENT TRUTH

" It is DIFFICULT to get a man to understand something when his SALARY depends upon him
NOT UNDERSTANDING IT"
Upton Sinclair

Community Submissions & Reports on the Moolarben Coal Project

PSM Final Report on EA Subsidence & Groundwater
PSM Preliminary Review
Pell Sullivan & Meynink Pty Ltd (PSM)
-Engineering Consultants carried out an independent review of Moolarben Coal Mine Environmental Assessment Subsidence & Groundwater report

Review of Flora Survey
Alex Cockerill

Regular visitor to area

National Trust Submission

Stone Cottage Objection

Wiradjuri Objection

A thank you to all that sent in a Submission -

The long term and cumulative impacts of these developments on the groundwater or river system is impossible to assess in the time frame allowed. The integrity and viability of the Goulburn River catchment and the sandstone cliffs and gorges are under threat from coal mining!

The four Community Members of the
Moolarben Consultative Committee informed the Department of Planning that they had no confidence in the Moolarben Environmental Assessment Report.

' It is our understanding from reading this
document that it does not comprehensively assess the direct, indirect or cumulative impacts
of this development on the people and the environment in the affected area'.