Vickery Mine Extension

I object to the proposed Vickery Extension Project on the following key
grounds:

1. CONTINUED DESTRUCTION OF COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: The
Vickery project has already led to fundamental changes in the social
structure of the area, hollowing out communities and causing distress
to local farmers. This proposal will only exacerbate this change and
loss and all for a project of truly uncertain duration in a world
where decarbonisation is becoming imperative.

2. UNCERTAINTY OF WATER AND FLOODPLAIN IMPACTS: Too many times we have
seen with other projects that modelled impacts do not match reality.
These kinds of discrepancies are likely to become even more extreme as
climate and rainfall patterns continue to change. Far more work needs
to be done and a far more conservative approach taken in relation to
these risks than is currently manifest by the proponent.

3. INSUFFICIENT CONSIDERATION OF CUMULATIVE IMPACTS. Like a number of
other projects around NSW (currently proposed and recently approved)
there has been totally inadequate consideration of cumulative impacts,
most especially in relation to water but also in relation to social
and other dimensions. This is not good enough. A thorough approach to
cumulative impact assessment is needed. The time for "she'll be right"
is long past.

Yours faithfully,


CRAIG SHAW

22 October 2018

Stephanie Darley
146 `Merrigle' Lane
Boggabri NSW 2382


Dear Sir/Madam

Re: Submission- Application Number SSD 7480
Vickery Extension Project- Braymount Road, Gunnedah

I firmly object to the above proposal, as it will have numerous
detrimental impacts socially, environmentally and on individuals
health and well being. I have lived on `Merrigle' my entire life, my
future is in Agriculture, providing `basic needs' to society,
according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The Boggabri and Gunnedah
community need balance between agriculture and Mining. I have great
concern relating to Whitehaven coal's history of breeches, putting the
Namoi River and prime agriculture land at risk. Through manipulation
and shear strength the mine have a school yard bullying effect
enforcing their consequences on the community, or any object in their
path. Attention needs to be brought to the fact Whitehaven have run
from their previous history by changing their name to Vickery Coal PTY
LTD. This makes it very clear to the public they have a bad history,
which they want to hide. To protect themselves from the numerous
breeches as they have failure to comply with various standards and
requirements.


The size and wealth Whitehaven dwarfs local farmers, driving farmers
and families off the land. Whitehaven Coal has already purchased over
70 induvial local farms displacing the owners and isolating
neighbours. The land is then leased to a few larger farmers/
companies, which are commonly non local enterprises. This effect was
made obvious to me when I recently followed my old school bus home as
it did not make one stop. As a result has contributed to the already
high prices and scarcity of both resources and land. This calls for
no-go zones for coal, to provide opportunity for farmers and encourage
agriculture in the community. Driving the importance to balance out
agriculture and mines. Farmers are already suffering from previous
water cut backs, now suffer from Whitehaven purchasing water licences,
draining the underground water table and evidence suggests they have
exceeded their harvestable rights.

One of the major concerns with the EIS is the lack of designs, local
knowledge and assumptions made. Putting a railways across a flood
plain on prime agriculture, is a bizarre and nonsensical decision. You
cannot assure it will have no affect on the community when no design
has been presented. Whitehaven have a design, as they continually
state it is more "economically feasible" for them to go ahead with the
project. This gives clear indication, they lie and are hiding crucial
information from the community. I've experience large and small floods
at Merrigle, with the development of the railway would interfere with
flow, flow levels and direction of the natural flow bringing great
concern, as there will be no way to prepare for such disruption,
leaving local residence in fear, like myself.

The health of Boggabri and Gunnedah communities is under risk, due to
the coal mine. This is physically obvious as once our cars were
covered from coal trucks dust on the Kamilaroi highway, now they are
covered by coal mud, as they "fixed the problem" by watering the
roads. If we can see coal remains on the ground and doctors are
pushing for further investigation into respiratory illnesses calls for
outside investigation is vital, as humans health is at risk. I've
always imagined living in my own home on the family property. `The
proposed building entitlement 144' is where I imagined myself living,
this plan has now been bulldozed by Whitehaven. I would have high
exposure to coal dust, be continually interrupted by trains and the
impact it would have on the floods is unimaginable and beyond my
knowledge. Noise will be a major impact. The EIS cannot give an exact
distance the railway will be from the house pad I planned to live on.
The EIS states if the house was to be developed it will not be
affected. This statement needs to be reconsidered and investigated
into further as Whitehaven again are concealing the truth. The map
presented of the railway has a sweeping bend in the railway line,
early meetings Brian Coal stated Whitehaven do not want any bends in
the railway. Once again Whitehaven fail to deliver correct information
and as a result caused greater consequences on my family and our
family farm.

Whitehaven are continually pushing the idea forward that this
expansion and rail development will provide 500 job opportunities with
75% of them being for locals. After spending my previous years at uni
it is clear these `job opportunities' are a thing of the past with
such development in technology. Yes they may provide temporary jobs
during construction, however we need to look into the future.
Whitehaven have already taken interest into trialling driverless
trucks, so how can they be looking to create more jobs, when they are
already planning to cut jobs? The Boggabri community does not benefit
from Whitehaven, as employees form their own small community,
consisting of mostly men. It is the farmers and locals who give to the
community and keep Boggabri running. Whitehaven's proposal had created
huge social division in a once close knit community. Neighbours who
have been compensated for the railway are the only ones who benefit,
while the rest have to live and deal with the burden of the proposed
development.

The shear devastation this has brought upon my family and the
community is shattering. Whitehaven has bullied local farmers, forcing
them to become part time farmers, as they spend half of their days in
the office trying to fight and protect their livelihoods. There is no
social consideration by Whitehaven and no person should have to fight
for basic human rights. A clear example of this was there short time
period of 42 days Whitehaven gave the community to provide their
submissions. They cunningly released the EIS and made the submission
date during one of the busiest times of the year for farmers, cotton
planting and irrigating. This coward act has added to the stress and
forced farmers to go beyond their expertise, to understand and analyse
technical information. For myself I'm currently studying full time,
however majority of my time has been dedicated in protecting my
future, trying to read and comprehend the EIS. Having EIS submissions
due at the time of University exams, adds to their cunning plan, as
they not only affect current farmers, but target the future
generations as victims as well. I fear for my future as neighbours Ken
Crawford has already fought a similar railway battle and extensions
are top priority for the greedy Whitehaven Coal mine. For such an
important and controversial issue the affected community need to be
dealing and communicating with people who can explain politely to the
community the reasons for the submission and know the data and figures
provided in the EIS and beyond the EIS which Brian Cole has failed to
do. Brian Cole is rude and arrogant, who has no empathy or respect for
the affected people, especially not acknowledging women.

To whom it may concern,

Programmed Skilled Workforce (PSW) supports Whitehaven Coal's
application for the Vickery Extension Project. PSW sees the extension
delivering significant benefits to the local workforce and surrounding
communities by creating more jobs for local workers. This in turn,
will stimulate the local economy, providing growth to the regions'
businesses, community and charitable organisations.

Sincerely,

Craig Allen
General Manager Mining East

It is horrible see what mining does to country communities. If this mine
goes ahead it is going to ruin the livelihood of so many families and
individuals. Already the impact it has had on the town of Boggabri is
very disheartening. I really hope that our beautiful farming land,
water and community can win out over this company.

I object to the very short timeframe allowed to prepare your submission,
42 days is not long enough.
COAL RAILWAY AND RAIL LOOP: No modelling has been provided as to the
movement of surface water once the railway is constructed, and there
are inadequate details of the construction of the 14 km rail spur.
There are inadequate indications of what sections will be elevated,
and which will be embankments.
"The final vertical alignment of the rail and the sizing of the
openings (bridges and culverts) will be determined during the detailed
design stage."- Appendix C Flood Assessment, page 38.
This has very serious ramifications for flood risks and makes it
impossible for anyone to make an informed submission.
Further, according to the Dept of Planning, "this is a flood modelling
much different than other developments... without explicitly stating
where each structure is.... It's certainly a key issue." [Source:
Stephen O'Donoghue, Team Leader, Resources Assessments, Golf Club
meeting 26th Sept 2018]
I do not have confidence in modelling which is based on such vague
assumptions, with no details about where each structure is.
The rail loop itself is too close to the Namoi River and the riparian
vegetation and koala habitat will be lost.
The community has been living under the assumption that there would be
no Namoi River crossing associated with this project, since Whitehaven
Coal was advised the Commonwealth of the Environment that a river
crossing would not be acceptable under the Environmental Protection
and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
The coal railway is one of the most serious concerns about this
Vickery project.
Biodiversity - koalas: The entire locality where the Vickery mine is
intended to be built is prime koala habitat, including the area where
the rail loop is to be built.
Koalas are listed as an endangered species under NSW and Commonwealth
legislation. I do not believe that any mitigation measures, such as
relocation of the local koala population can be viable because
alternative habitat is being destroyed throughout NSW and in any case
relocating koalas is known to have a high failure rate.
Impacts on the Koala have also been understated because of
insufficient consideration of impacts upon the full extent of suitable
habitat within the Approved Mine area. Like other cumulative impacts,
the effects on koala habitat have been dealt with poorly in the EIS.
There does not seem to be any limit of the extent of impact being
considered and matters in relation to landscape impacts have not been
considered adequately.

19 year old male interested heavily in agriculture, concerned about the
future of agriculture- extrapolated by the expansion of extractory
industries. Particularly Santos and Whitehaven.

Australia doesn't need coal, we need renewables, and we have the
resources too.

North and west NSW doesn't need coal, we need water. The 2018 drought
has shown us this.

Earth doesn't need Coal, earth needs extensive change in our approach
to the EVER REAL AND GROWING threat of climate change.

Boggabri doesn't need coal especially any more coall, it needs
community. We don't want more fly/flow workers, we need locals, and
local business.

Some Local business may benefit from coal but most don't. Small and
large business cannot keep employees particularly skilled ones. Look
at gunnedah... for example gunnedah timbers, Gordon turner
motorcycles, beaurepares - no one can keep labour.

The mines dismantled our cafe in boggabri to build units that they
can't even fill, they haven't even built.

Most horrendously, Vickey not to mention mauls creek, idomitsu and
santos - plan to irreversally undermine prime, irreplaceable,
incomparable agricultural land.

We do not need, and especially want vickery.
Community, water, agriculture- that's what we need.

Lock the gate

I am against the further destruction of native land and as koala and a
broad range of native wildlife and habitat are in that area it is not
in the intrest of the Australian people to mine coal at Gunnedah.

I am not a resident of this area but a am aware of the dreadful
consequences of climate change. Farmland and water are far more
important than coal. There is no reason to degrade the living
condition of the local people when there are obvious alternatives to
coal.

I believe in the government looking into renewables rather than wasting
money on coal . I am not a resident of this area, but am worried about
the future of our water supplies, the arable land in our country that
is being destroyed instead of being used for the future food of our
ever growing population.

I object to the development of this mine.

Dear Sir/ Madame,

With all due respect, the proposition of developing a mine as
proposed, is a malicious, environmentally vandalistic, sociopathic and
is arguably an international crime against all nature and humanity.

Accelerating and exacerbating climate change through enabling increase
emissions of greenhouse gasses, as this mine would do, endangers all
life on Earth. Allowing this mine therefore, is directly attributable
to increasing global human suffering, rapid extinction of species and
irreversible climate catastrophe.

This mine and all others posing a climate threat must be abandoned and
their devastating effects mitigated immediately.

It is acceptable and responsible to legislate against deadly
greenhouse gas emitting developments at all costs.

Alternatively, culpable organisations can continue to accept the
liability, blame and future costs of damages inflicted by their
negligent, avaricious and exploitative actions.

Yours sincerely

Jaben Golledge

Planning NSW
I feel that the community has been let down by Whitehaven Coal not
providing across the floodplain design on the Proposed Vickery
Extension Project- proposed Rail Spur. To approve a coal mine
extension which plans to have a new rail line spur, is a bit like
putting the cart before the horse, If no EIS design or modelling of
the final rail spur design, a default must be that the proposed rail
spur should the be on piers before approving extension. I will attach
some background info, regards Geoff Hood

Today I attended the Whitehaven Coal AGM. In between presentations, on
the screen above the stage, was projected an idyllic scene of the
Australian countryside, presumably near one of their open cut coal
mines. One doesn't have to speculate why they didn't use a picture of
the spoil heaps or the huge open cut pits from which the material
came.

There is ample evidence from existing Whitehaven operated mines that
they have little regard for the conditions applied by the consent
agreement, and give scant consideration to the effect of their
operations on their neighbours. The dust and vibration, the draining
of aquifers, the profligate and apparently unrestricted use of scarce
water - these all add up to make life within many kilometers of a mine
unbearable, and continued farming unviable.

However all of this fades into insignificance against the stupidity of
digging up yet more coal, and burning it, which will help to make life
on the entire planet unbearable.

I urge the PAC to reject this proposal.

I object to the Vickery Mine Extension because we cannot afford to
sacrifice water, land and communities for short term private profit.

Namoi Water is still waiting to receive our technical report from our
independent hydrogeologist on the Vickery Extension. Given the project
size, the short timeframe and the ongoing drought issues we are not
able to submit for todays deadline.

We hope to submit at the end of next week pending receipt of the
technical report for our board to review and approve our
recommendations on the project.

Namoi Water's submission is on behalf of water users in the Namoi
Catchment area, we have gone to considerable lengths to ensure our
submission adequately covers the major risks of the project relating
to water resources.

The EIS is very comprehensive and detailed however it leads the reader to
have concerns with certain aspects. For example we noticed in several
sections it summarizes the findings of E. Whiteling but is obscure on
the manner Whitehaven is committed to implementing his findings. A
statement on page 4-141 generates similar concerns to the affected
stakeholders where Whitehaven lists a number of desirable activities
that "could be adopted" rather than defining what activities will be
adopted. It is disturbing that reading this EIS will mislead the
reader and the Department. This EIS gives the impression that
Whitehaven's commitment to fulfilling their continuing obligations to
agreed upon environmental commitments over the life of the mine will
diminish with economic, ownership and management changes. '
Our family property is operated with a long term view since it has
been owned by the family for over 100 years. We have maintained stands
of old growth eucalyptus, established environmental set asides at
various times for the last 70 years and conducted environmental
studies on the flora and fauna with the University of New England. We
hoped that Whitehaven would have committed to a more comprehensive and
appropriate monitoring design for water, dust noise and vibration to
assure to all its stakeholders that the operation is safe. For
example, air quality, SO4, monitors are located at Narrabri and
Gunnedah but not at the boundary, at the nearby homes, the nearby
towns of Boggabri and Emerald Hill where the impact is greatest. The
stakeholders are not assured of a healthy environment for living or
agriculture. The monitoring program should establish monitors at the
boundary to quantify migration of pollutants across the boundary.
Detail is lacking on the appropriate meteorological conditions that
are suitable for blasting, therefore the stakeholders are not informed
nor are the operations personnel restricted by conditions set forth by
the EIs , nor is monitoring in place to provide the data to assure
compliance. The model values could have been checked using operational
conditions for noise, dust, vibration and charge from Boggabri and
Tarrawonga Mines to assure stakeholders of the validity of the code
for the area. This would be a great confidence builder.
In conclusion, Whitehaven has a remarkable opportunity to be an
exemplatory neighbour by implementing appropriate changes in the
monitoring program of the surrounding environment. The EIS would
benefit from statements that monitoring data may change blast
footprint, increase the size and number of retention dams, require
installation of more and improved monitoring locations and types to
assure the stakeholders that no harmful operations are present, and
the modification of operations if current requirements are
inappropriate. We believe a citizens environmental advisory board
would be a useful addition to improve Whitehaven's environmental
image.

I object to the Vickery coal mine. My family is located 30km as the crow
flies from the site. This is not a full submission, I believe the time
provided for review and comment was far too short at a time when we
are all highly stressed and fully committed. Below are simply a few
points I wish to cover off on but in no way represent the full suite
of objections I have to the Vickery mine.
My main reasons are:
1. Local impacts - Air Quality - in particular the dust impacts on
Boggabri will be great, when taking into account the cumulative
impacts from all the mines surrounding the township. Most worrying is
the lack of air quality monitoring system located in Boggabri when it
is undoubtedly the most impacted township in the region. My youngest
child (and many others) attends school in Boggabri and I am concerned
for their health. The aged care facility and many aged citizens in
Boggabri also live along the train line. More and more uncovered coal
wagons emitting coal dust and silica as they pass, will continue to
impact on their health.
2. Local impacts - Social - Boggabri has already experienced a massive
social upheaval with the construction phase of the Maules Creek mine.
The establishment of the CIVEO village which has a capacity to house
the same number of people as the whole town of Boggabri. However this
is not like adding a whole town to a town, as it is only one sector of
the community. We are now at the stage that anyone who wants to work
in the mines now works there. From here there will only be massive
social upheaval as the company attempts to artificially slot in more
people to a tiny community without proactive and transparent
management of this social upheaval.
3. Regional Impacts - Water - This mine is massive in scale, the same
again as Maules Creek. Maules Creek mine has already caused bore
failure throughout the valley due to mining and Vickery will be the
same again. It is located perilously close to the Namoi River and to
the Namoi Alluviums, both good quality sources of water. In such a dry
climate, that is set to get drier, water should be our number one
priority. Water should not be wasted on washing coal and suppressing
dust and it should not be allowed to be contaminated by metals and
elements bought up from deep underground. Based on prior experience we
have no faith that the proponent will safely manage this critical
resource. In community meetings they failed to even tell us about the
massive new borefield they are proposing. They tell us they need no
new licences and yet they barely have enough water for the operations
they currently have. This dosnt pass the sniff test!
4. National Impacts - Agricultural - More than 76 family farms have
been bought out of the Boggabri district and the voluntary acquisition
zone for Vickery states more are likely to be purchased. With the
removal of each of these farms is a reduction in the viable
agricultural productivity of the nation. This impact has not been
properly assessed in the EIS, nor costed.
5. National Impacts - Aboriginal - This project will impact 24
aboriginal sites. These sites are most valuable when left in situ, the
removal of artefacts is yet another destruction of Australia's
cultural heritage.
6. National Impacts - Heritage - Kurrembede and its outbuildings have
special heritage meaning to Australians. The impacts from mining are
too great and the preservation of these buildings are not guaranteed.
It is also unclear how these buildings will be returned to community
after the end life of mining.
7. National Impacts - Koalas - Koala habitat has already been hugely
impacted across Australia and in the north west. This project is yet
another nail in the coffin of this iconic species. The clearly
proposed as well as the dust and noise impacts to koala habitat are
unacceptable.
8. Global Impacts - Emissions - If we are to ever meet our Paris
commitments we must not allow a single new coal mine to start up. The
true emissions from Vickery will push us beyond being able to make
this commitment which will put us onto a trajectory of climate
upheaval. The climate impacts on agriculture are already huge in the
coming years. We cannot have any more burning of fossil fuels.

Listing of concerns

□ Whitehaven do not use transparency and honesty and integrity
in the way they approach and treat impacted farmers. They feel lied to
and not taken seriously.

□ There is no faith in the modelling that has been undertaken on
behalf of Whitehaven. How can the environmental foot print of the
original mine with 4.5Mtpa be bigger than the environmental footprint
for the extension project which aims at mining 10 Mtpa of Coal at peak
times???
□ The Mine is too close to the Namoi river if the models prove
to be wrong. The Namoi river is vital not only in the Boggabri area to
irrigation farms (and of course various habitat along the river) but
all the way out to Wee Waa Farms and other farming Communities in
between. We cannot risk this river to be polluted and poisoned due to
the modelling proving to be incorrect somewhere down the future. Too
many livelihoods depend on it, not only farmers and communities along
the Namoi but generally the crops grown alongside will help feed and
clothe the Australian Nation and beyond.

□ There is the impression amongst farmers whose families have
lived on the flood plain for generations that the flood modelling has
been conducted without appropriate consulting. There is very valuable
historic knowledge in regards to major flood events tied up in such
farming families that has not been accessed for the compilation of the
EIS.
□ Significant rain fall events will cause run off into the
river. There is no doubt about it!!! The Mine is too close to the
river for the water to be filtered enough by the ground before it
enters the Namoi.

□ Over the last 5-10 years Farmers were urged to sell back and
have sold back Water to the government to ensure the environment was
looked after. Now, Whitehaven are holding water licenses to wash coal.
How does this protect the environment????

There seem to be 2 different standards, one for farming one for mining
re environmental issues.

□ There will be detrimental effects on property prices.
□ Water prices have significantly increased in the last few
years, possibly through mines entering the water market?!
This is a great concern to farmers and in particular irrigation
farmers.

□ Could the coal dust possibly impact cotton crops??? Whiteness
is a major quality aspect of the cotton fiber. The EIS does not state
about impacts of coal dust on crops! The mine boarders onto cotton
fields. The floodplain where the rail spur is proposed to go through
is cotton area.

□ There is at least 1 alternate rail spur that Whitehaven could
use instead of building a new one across the flood plain. Issues seem
to be that Whitehaven can't find an agreement with Boggabri Coal who
are operating this rail spur.

□ In the EIS there are no details included in regards to the
indicative rail spur other than where it will go. NO details to height
or how many pilons and the dimension of them etc. This information
seems so vital for the communities in this area to understand more on
how flood waters might be backed up or diverted by the rail spur. Why
are these details not included????
□ The scale of new infrastructure proposed suggests that we
might get to see `approval creep'. We are concerned once again that
Whitehaven are having a `hidden agenda' and that the current extension
approval will only be the beginning to a second "Hunter Valley".

□ Even though The Vickery Mine and Extension of it are not
situated on high quality agricultural land it IS adjacent to prime
agricultural land which has produced in a very reliable manner high
yielding crops over decades. Yet as seen just in the recent months,
this area also has been hit severely by drought and this gives even
more concern that our Ground water and River water should not be put
at risk in any way. We can't eat coal. Other renewable energy sources
should be considered by the governments here and overseas where the
coal gets exported to, to ensure prime ag land will be used to feed
and clothe the nations.

□ FIFO workers seem to almost only take their business to the
Pub and the local Bottleshop/supermarket. Other businesses do not or
only insignificantly benefit, nor do preschools, schools etc.

□ 450 operational staff are proposed for this extension project,
this will be a tipping point for a small community like Boggabri as
many believe a fifth mine in close proximity will over extend the
infrastructure in place while at the same time the community will not
benefit from the FIFO workers.
This rural area will see farm workers leave farms to work at the Mines
as Farm businesses can't compete with the hourly rates paid by the
Mines.
We do not have enough people in the small communities in this area to
provide another 450 workers so there will be more FIFO workers. See
concerns just mentioned above.


□ We live/farm alongside a gravel road (Braymont Road) which is
not supposed to be used by the mine workers. There is a designated
road for them to use (Manilla Road) to travel to the Mines which many
of them choose not to use as it is slightly longer distance and run
past our properties instead (at high speed which is a concern for the
mine workers safety but also farmworkers moving machinery. Also, a lot
of littering is to be observed due to this unwelcome traffic). We
would appreciate if Whitehaven would put rules and measures in place
to ensure this road will not be used by mine traffic if the extension
gets approved, as the old little Boston Street bridge across the Namoi
river will not withstand that kind of traffic for a long period of
time. End scenario is that we are cut off from town and have to travel
4 times the distance to get to town.

□ 42 is not anywhere near enough time to review the EIS of
several thousand pages, while running a farm business and having young
children.

Our concerns are:
1. Have you monitored what exists in the huge plume besides the dust
and debris that explodes sky high as a result of each blast?. These
plumes are very observable to all who are around. Coal has a number of
toxic contaminants in it including arsenic, boron, cadmium, chromium,
cobalt, copper, lead, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, thallium, and
uranium
On this basis the environment should be continuously monitored
including air, soil, dust, water, plants, animals and insects, etc..
2. With each blast the inevitable accumulation of dust and particles
in our lungs could be severely detrimental to health. No one should
live knowing that this could happen to them.
The build up of dust and particles on the vegetation and components of
the ecosystem will compromise the wonderful productivity which
provides not only the livehood of some, but the food supply, i.e.
durum wheat, and clothing, i.e. cotton, and other necessities, as well
as excellent quality protein- beef, lamb, and poultry, etc. for
Australia and the world.
Who knows if productivity will ever be regained after years of coal
mining. There are many natural controls on agricultural production
such as droughts and floods that farmers and graziers have learned to
cope with. but they have no control over the possible influences of
mining to every part of everyone's life.
As a member of the Vickery family I have a very, very great hope that
everything done will be done with utmost common sense, thorough
controls, constant monitoring, and consistent adjustment to every
detail. Models are not perfect so programs need to be flexible so
adjustments can be made to meet observations rather than calculated
values.

To whom it may concern,

I object to the Vickery Expansion that is proposed.

I have zero confidence that the worst case modelling is a true
representation of the impacts that would be felt once the mine was in
operation. This is based on personal experience that destroyed my
families very existence and way of life.

I don't want to see the families and community go through what my
family and close friends have had to endure.

The promised benefits from previous SSD's never arrived in Boggabri,
likewise the promised management measures to mitigate the impacts
associated with the SSD's weren't fulfilled, and has left ordinary
honest people to shoulder a multi-national company's risks and costs.
I don't believe this community can cope with anything else.

I am concerned that this project will be the final blow for our great
community in and surrounding Boggabri.

This proposal must be rejected.

regards,

Renee Murphy.

Maules Creek .

0458944646