Mod 8 - Ulan West Continued Operations.

Key points of objection:
1. Releasing over 105 Mt of additional Greenhouse Gas emissions, poor monitoring and
reporting of methane emissions.
Outside existing mine boundary with additional infrastructure disturbance - should be
assessed as a new project
Constructing a large new tailings dam area of 132 ha within a revegetated, rehabilitated
old open cut pit next to Goulburn River risking leakage of toxic contaminants
Wholly west of Great Dividing Range within the Murray Darling Basin - loss of flows to
Talbragar River, tributary of Macquarie River feeding into significant Macquarie Marshes
Extended water releases into Goulburn River increasing salt load downstream to Hunter
Loss of Aboriginal cultural heritage and spiritual landscape for Wiradjuri Nation –
impacting 71 known sites, including rock art
Disturbing an additional 1743 ha with sandstone escarpment, caves and overhangs:
Destroying additional important habitat for the nationally threatened Large-eared Pied
Bat, Eastern Cave Bat, Regent Honeyeater and Koala, critically endangered Box Gum
Woodland. Cumulative impact on these species across 3 mines in region.
8. 9. Final layout of surface infrastructure not yet determined – mine plan not finalised
Undermining 17 private properties directly impacting 4 houses and 6 private bores
10. Increasing social impacts, loss of farm water and ongoing disturbance of rural way of life
11. This project is not needed to provide regional jobs – there is a huge workforce shortage
for renewable energy projects and other industries in the Central West.

It is morally wrong to be opening or expanding coal or gas mines in NSW and Australia
It is treasonable for our elected representatives to be representing corporations that are aggravating climate change and increasingly legally responsible for the damage it is and will do to the citizens they supposedly represent and the environment that supports out lives and livelihoods and those of generations to come

I support this Project as I work for a Mining Consultancy Company, and this Project helps generate work for myself and many others withing the organisation.

I object strongly to the sham processes where significant, high impact new projects are disguised as "modifications". This is devastating for climate, community, biodiversity and water. It should be rejected.

This is not a "modification" and needs independent public scrutiny. The new tailings dam is risky. Bush clearing for this "modification" endangers koala and Regent Honeyeater habitat.

THE PROPOSED MINE EXPANSION SHOULD BE DISSALLOWED, ON THE FACT THAT IT IS A NEW PROJECT, ENTIRELY OUTSIDE THE BOUNDRIES OF THE EXISTING MINE.
THANKYOU

To whom it may concern,
I have some major concerns with the potential impacts of the Ulan Mod 8 expansion, especially due to its unnecessary focus on harvesting fossil fuels:
Extends Mining: Six-year extension to mine an additional 43 million tonnes of coal.
Massive Emissions: Adds 105 million tonnes of CO2-e, a 45% increase.
Spans Major Catchments: Operations impact both the Hunter and Murray-Darling basins, threatening water security.
Risky Tailings Dam: Expands toxic waste storage near a river, risking seepage downstream into a national park.
Habitat & Species Loss: Clears 100+ hectares of native vegetation, including 34ha of Box Gum Woodland, impacting threatened species like the Regent Honeyeater and Koala.
Cultural Heritage Risk: Impacts 71 Aboriginal sites on Wiradjuri Country under a Native Title claim.
Flawed Process: Assessed as a "modification" to avoid community scrutiny.

I hope you take my concerns into consideration.

- Provides income to locals
- helps boost the local economy
- provides increased growth to the town
- support local sporting and non for profit groups

At my advanced age, I feel I finally have sufficient experience (particularly as someone who, for decades, has given his time and energy to support causes which stand up against those who would do damage to our shared natural environment).

This, I feel, is indisputably something that would irreversibly lessen the natural world's value to us all.

And, as such, I am strongly opposed to the intentions of this development.

All best

And thank you for giving me the opportunity to express my opinion.

Greg Barrett

Key points of my objection are that this proposal will:
1. Release over 105 Mt of additional Greenhouse Gas emissions, poor monitoring and
reporting of methane emissions.
2. Be utside existing mine boundary with additional infrastructure disturbance - it should be
assessed as a new project
3. Construct a large new tailings dam area of 132 ha within a revegetated, rehabilitated
old open cut pit next to Goulburn River risking leakage of toxic contaminants
4. Is wholly west of Great Dividing Range within the Murray Darling Basin - causing loss of flows to
Talbragar River, tributary of Macquarie River feeding into significant Macquarie Marshes
5. Extended water releases into Goulburn River iwill ncrease salt load downstream to Hunter
6. Loss of Aboriginal cultural heritage and spiritual landscape for Wiradjuri Nation –
impacting 71 known sites, including rock art
7. Disturb an additional 1743 ha with sandstone escarpment, caves and overhangs:
Destroy additional important habitat for the nationally threatened Large-eared Pied
Bat, Eastern Cave Bat, Regent Honeyeater and Koala, critically endangered Box Gum
Woodland. Cumulative impact on these species across 3 mines in region.
8. Final layout of surface infrastructure is not yet determined – mine plan not finalised
9. Undermine 17 private properties directly impacting 4 houses and 6 private bores
10. Increae social impacts, loss of farm water and ongoing disturbance of rural way of life
11. This project is not needed to provide regional jobs – there is a huge workforce shortage
for renewable energy projects and other industries in the Central West

Another environmrent-wrecking submission from the coal industry, very disappointing. Please consider rejecting on the following grounds:

- Extends Mining: Six-year extension to mine an additional 43 million tonnes of coal which is unacceptable in the face of the latest climate data.

- Massive Emissions: Adds 105 million tonnes of CO2-e, a 45% increase !!

- Spans Major Catchments: Operations impact both the Hunter and Murray-Darling basins, threatening water security.

- Risky Tailings Dam: Expands toxic waste storage near a river, risking seepage downstream into a national park.

- Habitat & Species Loss: Clears 100+ hectares of native vegetation, including 34ha of Box Gum Woodland, impacting threatened species like the Regent Honeyeater and Koala.

- Cultural Heritage Risk: Impacts 71 Aboriginal sites on Wiradjuri Country under a Native Title claim.

- Flawed Process: Assessed as a "modification" to avoid community scrutiny.

Thanks for your consideration.
Simon Wright (Dr)
Orange, NSW 2800

Submission: Objection to Ulan Coal Mine Mod 8 – Ulan West Continued Operations Project

I object to the proposed Ulan Coal Mine Mod 8. This proposal is not a genuine modification but a major new coal expansion that extends mining outside the current lease, adds new infrastructure, and introduces serious environmental and social impacts. It should be assessed as a new project, not a modification.

The project would release over 105 million tonnes of greenhouse gases, with poor monitoring of methane emissions, undermining efforts to address climate change. It will also cause further loss of groundwater and river flows in the Murray–Darling Basin and increase saline discharges into the Goulburn River, threatening ecosystems and water users.

A new 132-hectare tailings dam beside the Goulburn River risks toxic leakage into The Drip and Goulburn River National Park. The proposal also threatens 71 Aboriginal cultural heritage sites and destroys critical habitat for threatened species including the Large-eared Pied Bat, Regent Honeyeater, and Koala.

The mine will directly impact private properties and rural livelihoods while the region urgently needs workers for renewable energy projects, not more coal mining.

For these reasons, I urge the Department to refuse the Ulan Coal Mine Mod 8 project and require any further coal expansion to undergo a full, independent environmental and climate assessment.

Please refer to my reasons for objecting to this project as detailed in the attached submission.

I object to this proposal because it should not be assessed as a modification, rather a new proposal as it is entirely outside the existing mining lease area and therefore it has the potential to cause environmental impacts not previously assessed.
The proposed project is a modification of Ulan Mod 6 which is under legal appeal and this appeal should be heard before any further approvals are made regarding this mine.
This proposal would allow a six-year extension to mine, mining a further an 43 million tonnes of coal with an increase in emissions of 105 million tonnes of CO2, a 45% increase, at a time when NSW and Australia should be reducing our greenhouse emissions from domestic and exported fossil fuels.
The proposed operations impact both the Hunter and Murray-Darling basins, threatening water security in NSW and other states.
This proposal will expand toxic waste storage near a river, risking seepage downstream into a national park.
This proposal will destroy over 100 hectares of native vegetation, including 34ha of Box Gum Woodland, impacting threatened species like the Regent Honeyeater and Koala. The proposal will also destroy valuable farmland and degrade surrounding farmland.
This proposal will impact 71 Aboriginal sites on Wiradjuri Country under a Native Title claim. A full assessment of aboriginal cultural significance and completion of the native title claim process needs to be finalised before any further assessment of this modification.

Dear Decisionmaker,

The best on climate warn - therefore, as a warning, all are bound to heed, regardless of any legal relationships - there is no scope for any expansion, in any form, of fossil energy; yet, emissions are rising, with this context, of information put by the climate best - see International Energy Agency, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Department of Commerce, WMO;

without greenhouse gas presence, global temperature would be minus 18;

at start of industrial use of fossil, global temperature 15 degrees;

now, global temperature approaching 16.5, accelerating in recent decades, partly because it is now known, from the removal of reflective pollutants, though there is a delay in the build up of heat, just as applying a source of heat to a pot of water does not immediately reach its highest temperature but builds;

16.5 is put by the warning to be a critical point threshold;

ignoring the warning, the position of humankind to date, emissions are rising, does not end the biosphere;

however, the meaning of the warning means the biosphere is reset, is, that, the very real risk being run is that people and much life do not survive a resetting of the biosphere, which will regenerate, subject to the time left for other conditions on Earth, needed for this;

in a vastly polluted world, the nightmare-hell chemicals, (utter muck), from fossil combustion, at large, in a world of 8 billion, of which 7 are already powered, which can be touched, smelt and seen, add to the pressure to end this source of energy;

in my life, cancers have proliferated to much younger ages; a report in this week's media stated that Australians born in the 1990s are 2 to 3 times more likely to have bowel cancer than those born in the 1950s;

there is every need to keep Earth as clean as possible;

this year's three mandatory NSW state of the environment report, rates the health and strength of ecology at 29 per cent of 1788, and that is with a universe of protective law, introduced since the 1960s.

Wishing you well,

Sincerely,

Graeme T

See attached document

The Mudgee Mega Mine Expansion plan, known as ULAN Mod 4, should not go ahead. We are attempting to control our carbon emissions and this project would add to the problem we have with rapid global warming, and should be stopped. The project would last for 6 years, and extract an extra 43 Million tonnes of coal with a monstrous carbon load when burnt. It would also impact our water, as it woud affect the Murray Darling basin and the Hunter River. We live in the world's driest inhabited continent and our water is crutial to our long term survival, especially with the cavalier treatment of our existing water flows to support irrigation of such thristy crops as cotton & almond growing. More pollution would occur with the location of the mine's tailings dam with its seeping toxins. The mine extension would necessitate clearing 100 or more hectares of lnative vegitation which includes the habitat of threatened species. Over 71 Aboriginal sites are also likely to be damaged irreparably or completely wrecked.

Please do not approve this dreadful project which is proposed to enrich a few at the cost of our unique environment.

Thanks,
Janet Thompson

Please see submission of objection attached.

Craig Shaw
KANDOS NSW 2848

With this mine extension, this will provide ongoing employment, not only local but in other LGA's adjacent to the Mudgee region. This supports other organisations within the mining industry, such as OEMs, overhaul centres and supports industries such as manufacturing and supply networks. I work for a contracting company within the mining industry; this extension provides me with job security for years to come to be able to support my young family. The currently legal coverings for the environment are already covered within their current approvals, so the extension, they would already be covering the local and state laws. This is about providing a job security for all the local workers that are directly or indirectly employed. Currently Glencore support a lot of items within their local community, and they give back to that community as well.

Hello
Myself, along with HIC Services have been working and maintaining Ulan since 1999. HIC Services established in Mudgee in 2009.
During that time, a large number of young local employees that commenced work with HIC Services from a young age now work directly for Ulan. Something we are very proud of. HIC Services continues to operate out of Mudgee servicing Ulan on a regular basis. HIC Services employs 20 people locally and without Ulan operating, HIC Services would struggle to remain viable in the region. HIC Services strongly supports this project and wish Ulan the best in doing so.
Kind Regards,