Mangoola Coal Continued Operations Project

I support the mine because I live local and work there.
They support the local community with sporting and schooling.

Mangoola is the benchmark in responsible & sustainable mining, The operation benefits the Community & environment, There is no fair or reasonable argument to rule against this extension.

I SUPPORT THE MINE

The Mangoola Coal Continued Operations Project would benefit myself by providing a continued job for myself and make it able for me to children due to great benefits through the business. It also contributes to the community by keeping jobs in the area and people spending money in Muswellbrook, Denman and Singleton shops which include small business's. It also will help my family to have the opportunity to live on our rural block and build a house.

I support the Mangoola Coal Continued Operations Project as it will employ plenty of local people so therefore bringing money into the local community.

I would strongly like to express my support for the Mangoola Coal Continued Operations Project. As a current employee of Mangoola Coal, I am fully aware of the many benefits of continued operations including but not limited to; employment opportunities, support of local businesses & suppliers, Government Royalty contributions, export earnings for Australia and industry leading rehabilitation of mining areas. I believe the Environmental Impact Statement clearly identifies the reasons why this project should be approved and I support Glencore/Mangoola Coal wholeheartedly.
Kind Regards,
Tahnee Schofield

I think the mangoola coal continued project is a great project supporting local businesses and residents with employment,it provides local funding in many ways and is a world leader in rehabilitation of land,it will provide additional employment to many more contractors during its duration.The project also will generate a revenue stream to the NSW government of an estimated $121 million over the life of the project,I believe mangoola coal is a great asset to the local community and beyond into the future.

I wish to state my objection to the proposed Mangoola Coal continuous operations project.

My family have lived in Manobalai in the Upper Hunter for almost 16 years. I grew up in the house that my parents still reside in, and so I remember the process of renovating the house that was originally on the property and the time and resources spent in the process. The idea of my home losing a lot of its value due to a coal mines expansion is devastating. I truly believe that the proposed ‘Community Enrichment Program’ is not at all beneficial to the Wybong/Manobalai community and will not draw the interest of prospective buyers when Mangoola Coal’s mine is so close to our community’s doorstep.

I am not at all against Coal Mining, but I do wish to object to this project as a result of it’s unfairness to the surrounding properties and landowners. The loss of property value is too great to allow this project to move forward without compensation for the landowners, in the form of a guarantee that said landowners have the right to be bought out at their property’s market value.

The mental health concerns around this mine’s extension in the Manobalai community are tremendous, as landowners are already facing great challenges under the idea that their properties are now unwanted by prospective buyers.

The environmental concerns are also of great impact, as the dust and noise pollution of the air are already noticeable enough to make a difference in the lives of landowners. Considering Australia is the third largest exporter of carbon dioxide in fossil fuels, our potential for further environmental damage is great1. The estimated 60 million tonnes per annum of greenhouse gas emissions generated by electricity and heat production represent approximately 36.5% of NSW’s emissions alone2. This doesn’t even account for the fossil fuels we send overseas to be used in other countries, which is more than Australia’s production alone. These figures are alarming, and with our current knowledge of climate change and the impacts of global warming that are becoming more apparent, these figures aren’t to be taken lightly.

Aside from the environmental harm and depreciation in value of properties surrounding this mine, my home is important to me, and it is somewhere that I can relax and feel comfortable in the surroundings of my childhood. I am currently studying at university in Canberra and so coming home to my beautiful farm is always the highlight of my year. I have also built so many relationships with surrounding landowners, and it would be devastating to lose everything that is tied in with our property and the surrounding community.


1. Kilvert, N. (2019). Australia is the third-biggest exporter of CO2 from fossil fuels in the world. Why?. [online] ABC News. Available at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-08-19/australia-co2-exports-third-highest-worldwide/11420654 [Accessed 23 Aug. 2019].
2. Dpi.nsw.gov.au. (2019). Projected impacts of climate changes on mining | NSW Department of Primary Industries. [online] Available at: https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/content/research/topics/climate-change/mining [Accessed 23 Aug. 2019].

Mangoola coal leaves no footprint they restore the land to a better condition than the found it , they make little to no dust and strive to sustainabily mine coal in the area, they benefit the community majority of the workforce are local and money stays local .. I am for the continuation of Mangoola coal

I currently work at Mangoola Coal Glencore as the Mine Geologist and I would like the Mangoola Coal Continued Operations Project to be approved. This will provide me with continued employment until 2030 and I will continue to live in, and contribute to the local community. My husband and I own a house in Scone and spend a lot of our income locally helping to support the local economy. If I were to not have local employment, we would leave the area.

I have worked at Mangoola for over 7 years and I wish to continue working here. Mangoola employ approx. 400 people from the local area in a safe and environmentally considerate workplace. We pride ourselves on our natural landform rehabilitation which is an industry leading practise. Mangoola will continue to use all the existing infrastructure and will not increase the annual coal extraction tonnage. Mangoola also participate in community events such as National Tree Day and provide funding to a lot of local community groups, such as children’s sporting clubs.

By approving the Mangoola Coal Continued Operations Project, Mangoola will continue to employ people from the local community and will provide royalties of over $121Mil to the NSW Government over the life of the Project.

Mangoola operation has a great reputation for world class rehabilitation, supporting local communities with minimal impact. Extension will create benefits to over 500 people

Morton Mining & Engineering Pty Ltd perform contract works for Mangoola Coal both on and off site. We employ locals who live in the LGA.
Mangoola are supportive of their local community and involve themselves in this community. They show this support by participating in local events.
Our continued engagement with Mangoola Coal also supports other local companies that we use as suppliers to fulfil the tasks required as a contractor.
We feel that the continuation of Mangoola Coal into the future is supported by the community, contractors and employees.
We look forward to continued participation in the development of Mangoola Coal , and we fully support the submission.

Mangoola Coal is a successful mine operating in a community that it supports financially both directly and indirectly. It supports, encourages and is sensitive to indigenous projects and issues and has a world class reputation for successful site rehabilitation.
It provides income for tertiary industry and individual families from the mine itself right through to the Port of Newcastle and beyond.

I object to any extension of the coal mine called Mangoola, previously the Anvil Hill vicinity. The mining has probably already extinguished most of the remnant biodiversity around the Anvil; the area was later proven to host rare orchids. It should have been conserved and on a National Heritage list, enhancing tourism potential and preserving bushland, preserving the agricultural communities in Wybong. Instead, it has been removed, destroyed, its beauty gone forever.

Curiously, instead of being ashamed of this violent action towards our land and people, they brazenly apply to go on with it further. Instead of being firmly told to shift its business to something sustainable, the company is being pandered to by (our paid) Government, in the name of zero extra 'jobs'. These jobs only waste the time of the miners who should be returning to healthy work and/or retraining for their futures. It is now clear to all that to please the lobbyists and gain power once more, our Governments would destroy people's lives, Wybong community, wildlife, habitat, and its own wildlife corridor strategies. Do they really believe that the resulting 'power' is worth anything after that?

Cumulative impacts are regularly raised with these submissions, and just as regularly ignored. Perhaps Govt. sees the extensions as a way of cleansing out the humans from the locality by suffering, noise, dirt, emissions. Then the humans will not interfere any more with Government's advance on behalf of its lobbyists and foreign friends.
I note that the quality of research, logic and perspective produced in submissions by objectors is always superior to the lame excuses of proponents. And I note that the Government IPC folk seem to be blind to this despite their intelligence, education and experience. What other factor is at play, I cannot say. I can say though, it is evil.

I was at the Anvil Hill resistance when the valley was intact, when we still had the basin of rare Hunter ecology to be proud of, and a beautiful landscape.
I went there with a sketchbook, and I have that sketch made looking out across the land towards and around the Anvil. I saw the intact country, Hall, roads, village areas.
So the content of the list of further changes proposed by the Applicant reads like a list handed by Hitler to his inner cabinet of destroyers.

One day the IPC and its controllers will be held to account; if not in this life, then in the alternative.

I object to the entirety of the application for extension of the "Mangoola" coal mining activities.

KEY ISSUES:
Air quality, the issue of leaving a final void, climate change impacts (on rough numbers the Scope 3 emissions from this extension would be more than Australia's entire Paris commitment), the potential loss of more community members displaced by mining and the opportunity cost of seeing more land and water devoted to mining rather than more sustainable industries are all significant issues for the health and wellbeing of our community.

I fully support the extension proposal of mangoola coal

I've been working for Mangoola since the start of the project and have enjoyed my time working the company. They provide a great deal of support to the community and surrounding neighbours. From a production point of view, we do a great deal with operations to limit the impact we have on the surrounding community by minimizing the dust to the best of our ability, shutting machinery down during night shift operations to minimize noise and maintaining rehabilitation as up to date as practically possible. They are a good company to work for and I know the community are at the forefront of our minds when making decisions in the pit. Plus they have provided myself and my family with stable employment for the past 9years.

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I believe that it will be a good thing for this area. The area will eventually be able to be farmed again once the mine is gone and the rehabilitation process completed. Mangoola employees many local people And contracts local companies, which in turn keeps local families here in the Hunter Valley.

I am a local indigenous business owner and a member of the land council I really need this to go ahead so I can keep employing the 20 odd staff members we employ and I feel Glencore support the local community greatly