HVO North Open Cut Coal Continuation Project

This project will support my family and community for generations to come helping to provide employment for my children locally

HVO is a major contributor to the hunter valley economy as one of the largest coal mines in the valley, we employee over 1500 members of the local community & as coal mining leases end it is important to manage the integration of new industries for the hunter valley along with the existing mines.
There is room for both in the coming years.

i support the continuation of HVO to provide employment for local people

I support the project because it provides jobs for locals and people from other communities. The projects helps families support their well being through jobs, supporting local companies that provide jobs. The projects contributes a lot of tax to the government

I am proud to be a HVO employee. I am fortunate to be able to develop my career surrounded by a group of highly knowledgeable and experienced people.
HVO provides many benefits to the region including providing employment for 1500 people and supporting local communities and charities through economic grants. In my time at HVO I have been involved in a number of initiatives for local charities with the most recent being at the training days where HVO employees built bird box's, kitchenettes and billy carts for local kids leading into Christmas.
HVO utilises innovative and industry-leading technology to manage air quality, noise and water resources to minimise the impact on the environment. I entirely support the HVO mine extension and believe it provides enormous benefits to local communities, employees and the overall economic growth of the region.

This current submission for the HVO complex provides a great balance between environmental and social outcomes. The reduction in final voids is a great outcome environmentally. Socially it provides excellent certainty for the hundreds of families that are supported by the ongoing employment, and it also will reopen and improve access to Jerrys Plains via a bridge at Moses crossing.
The extension of HVO will also minimise any requirement for new coal projects in an area that already has the infrastructure to access the port of Newcastle.

To: The responsible persons in the NSW Government,
In regards to the Hunter Valley Operations Continuation Projects and their associated coal mining operations, climate change is one of the most significant issues that will impact the long-term prosperity of the global economy and our way of life.
We are at a critical junction in history where the decisions that we make today will have impacts that echo on during the lifetimes of our children and their children.
This is because the uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions of the past centuries and decades have now exceeded the level at which they are safe.
The effects of exceeding the safe level are now all around us, in the form of more frequent and extreme weather events and their effects all now happening.
These include the unprecedented flooding in eastern Australia such as in Eugowra in NSW a few weeks ago, the prolonged drought and wildfires in western USA, the drought induced famines in east Africa, the widespread prolonged floods in Pakistan and the extreme flooding in NZ's North Island last week.
In Australia these extreme weather events are impacting nationally significant plants, animals and places like the UNESCO protected Ningaloo Reef and the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef, as well as threatened whale, sea turtle, koala and many other species.
New scientific evidence on climate change and the dangers it poses are laid out in the 2021 and 2022 IPCC AR 6 reports and the 2021 Australian State of the Environment report.
The 2015 Paris Agreement aims to keep the global temperature rise to less than 1.5°C, in which case the mining and burning of coal and other fossil fuels needs to stop almost immediately.
This can be done by replacing the burning of coal by the use of electricity and hydrogen produced using renewable energy sources.
While the Australian Federal Parliament is committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, achieving net zero emissions by 2050 is too late.
The NSW Government needs to be looking at ways to assist Australia and the world to achieve net zero emissions by 2030, or by 2035, at the very latest instead, so that global warming does not exceed 1.5°C, to preserve what is left of our natural habitats and our way of life.
Current Australian carbon emissions reduction targets are hopelessly inadequate, and what is now required are revolutionary actions like reducing carbon emissions by 75% of 2005 levels by year 2030 and reaching net zero by 2035.
The Australian private sector is gearing up to make the shift to a low emissions economy.
The only thing stopping this transition is the intransigence of the current Australian Federal and State Governments, which results in change for the better being strangled by the fossil fuel sector's death-like grip.
One of the most critical decisions that you will make is whether to allow the fossil fuel project proposals awaiting approval to proceed to implementation.
For most of these fossil fuel projects awaiting approval, information on the climate impacts of the projects were not properly known when they were originally proposed, nor were the risks that they pose to people, places and ecosystems in Australia and the world understood.
Now that we understand better the science of climate change and can see its effects in the world around us, can I urge you to reject the greenhouse gas emitting Hunter Valley Operations Continuation Projects now awaiting your approval, for the sake of our children and the generations following.
Yours faithfully in God's truth,
Greg Forster
Randwick NSW 2031

The industry hasn't gone bust yet and Australia finally requires these mines until we have other options

I support the extension of HVO North. Coal mines have major positive impact on the local economy and local community. The support and funding they provide for the local towns is a major boost to the area. I know this from personal experience, when growing up I received help from a local coal mine to attend a leadership camp and also some funding for an overseas sporting camp. Without living in this community and having the funding that the coal mines provide these opportunities would not have been possible. I hope that future generations are able to get these opportunities as well and by extending HVO North I know that they will be putting back into the local community for a long time to come. They also provide many employment opportunities and are the reason many of our small communities are still viable today.

For the benefit of the local businesses in the surrounding community and it’s 1500 members that are employed here, this is not a new mining project but an extension to existing safe, and respectful mining in the Hunter.

Good Afternoon,
I have provided the attached letter below in support of the Hunter Valley Operations continuation project.
Kind Regards
Brad Smith

HVO North Open Cut has been critical to the businesses I have worked in previously over the past 11 years with millions of dollars spent and hundreds of jobs created specifically to service HVO through their maintenance workshop alone.

My business has been created to support the new Capital Equipment purchased for the site which if the extension is approved will give the business, my family and my employees security for at least 20 years. The managers across the site are starting to talk about long term business partnerships with their main contractors, realising how critical we are to them as HVO is to us. If the approval is withheld, across both HVO North and South, due to the shear size and scale of the pit, it would be a terminal hit for many businesses and jobs across the Hunter Valley.

HVO provides immense value to the local community, business and the people within through community support, business opportunities and employment benefits.

Additionally, HVO demonstrate responsible and sustainable mining practices which is genuinely practiced, and visible through various aspects and functions within the operation.

Our business, and the employees within have direct interaction with HVO, as do many of our other colleagues, friends and families. Each of which have had positive interactions.

I work for the PHC Group as a Manager and our company supplies labour & components to HVO.
Over the past 38 years, PHC have been providing maintenance and supply services to the Glencore corporation.
PHC employ over 140 employees, who are all dependant on the mining industry, which includes HVO, who is PHC largest client. Not only are our employees working at HVO, they work at the majority of the mines in the Newcastle & Hunter Valley areas.
With HVO supplying coal to the Newcastle Port and PHC provides services to PWCS & NCIG companies. HVO is an integral part of the Newcastle & Hunter Valley supply infrastructure for other businesses, including PHC.

Key facts to be considered with approving/supporting these projects.
The continued employment of 140 employees at PHC
Support for the employees families
Support of the local infrastructure (Grocery chains, transportation companies, petrol stations, day care facilities, hairdressers, financial institutions, councils, etc)
The companies who supply PHC, these add up to 1000's of people outside the PHC group. With the PHC Group supporting local, interstate and oversea companies

This proposal is huge for me as it’s my dream job and would love to continue working in this industry which is close to home for me but this can only happen if they are allowed to continue mining at HVO. This also brings lots of business to surrounding regions plus numerous charities.

This is an existing mine operating for the past 70 years. The company has clearly shown it can effectively manage the community impacts and will continue to employ locals and support local businesses. The reputation and longevity of the mine which includes the Continuation Project has been a large part of my decision to move to the area.

Supports local businesses and individuals. Currently employed by HVO.

We are a 4th generation earthmoving company that employs 85 people with half of them working at HVO Mine.
We have worked there for over 20 years & would like to hope our future generations can work there as well in the future.
Without mining in the Hunter there would be an enormous amount of families, business's, sporting clubs & charities that would not receive the financial support that these business give so generously.

Keep mining going in the hunter vally

I’m in support of this project