Modification 2 Karuah (Hard Rock) Pit Consolidation Project

ICAG Inc. object to both the proposed applications for Karuah East Quarry Modification 11 and Karuah Hard Rock Quarry Modification 2.

The community having to write against 2 applications of 2 quarries that are at the Hunter Quarries area of Karuah, is not right.

We object to the community being continually impacted by the operating quarries. Without adding further areas.

AS they claim SSD, then the community should have been given 28 days per quarry, and the submission periods should not have been at the same time.

We see bias towards the community once again. It also shows the rushed process these companies are given over the community and people that are affected already by this company.

Please do not approve either quarry application to be approved.

Please mitigate the actual impacts and health impacts people are suffering already before approving further areas.

Thank you
ICAG Inc.

Mrs Amanda Albury
151 Forest Glen Road
Limeburners Creek NSW 2324
9th June 2026
Subject: Amanda Albury’s - objection to SSD Application, MOD11, MP09_0175-Mod-11, Karuah East Quarry Modification 11, and Karuah Hard Rock Quarry Modification 2
Who is the person who thinks that 13 days to respond to a massive documentation overload of 2 mining/quarry companies and all the Departments paperwork as well. 4690m acres and more to be destroyed if these extensions are approved.
All State Significant developments should be no less than 28 days, considering been planning and scheming their next attack areas and regardless of whether on the documentation the removal of the cliff between (Karuah East Quarry and Karuah Hard Rock Quarry) which I object to both being given approval, this should not happen in the way it has been put to the general public, or stake holder property owners like us. Who were not visited by ANYONE of any DEPARTMENT or HILTON GRUGEON or his STAFF, EPA NEWCASTLE, DPIE PARRAMATTA. No one made any attempt to contact us, or make a time to come out and see us and explain, how you are intending to “mitigate” the actual and real-time impacts we are already suffering from Hilton Grugeon and his rock mine quarry companies and various pits. We are already smashed by dirt/rock particles inside and outside our house, from the operations of multiples of pits, cliffs, overburden dump, blasting fumes, blasting noise, blasting vibrations etc. Then add the fact that we are no longer advised when Hilton Grugeon and his staff intend to blast, is beyond rude, offensive, dangerous to anyone on our property our animals and wildlife. Considering what happened to me in 2023, when I was gassed by blasting fumes, standing on our driveway, filming the blast that caused 3 black smoke plumes to go into the natural clouds above, which they do regularly, and these clouds obviously move around the landscape, and then drop the dust/rock particles and blasting fumes and/or acid rain?, onto unfortunate people and animals, such as myself and my poor cats in their catrun, who were gassed as I was (standing infront diagonally to their catrun), myself and our 2 cats all had nose bleeds for days, with me having regular sinus and nose bleeds, when the lining of my nose and sins, still is being turned to red blood mush from this health crime committed on me, yet no one has been held accountable. No one has been charged with allowing blasting fumes to come off the properties of coal mines/quarries without compensation to their victims, assistance for us/others to modify their house, capped drinking water tanks, air purifiers. The general public should be notified in a longer timeframe than 28 days and these two (2) separate pit modification Applications, should have been in their own submission period, not over the top of each other for the general public to be able to at least read the various documentation associated with each quarry mine pit. Its already too confusing to keep up with all the various names of all the pits. I looked at the maps and the one I was looking at, I could not find the area between they want to have removed. Perhaps its hiding on another map somewhere else?
Considering also we on our Wallaburra property at Forest Glen Road, Limburners Creek, are directly opposite to our EAST and are smashed by Hilton Grugeon and his multiples of pits/operations, as are other people on their property, who are also smashed by Hilton Grugeon's multiples of pits, cliffs, overburden dumps, dirt that pours off that area in the east to west breeze and whips us standing on our driveway causing nose bleeds to most people who have had this happen while looking at this disgusting attack on the environment at our place or theirs. Also the blasting fumes nearly killed me in 2023, of which Hilton Grugeon and his staff have still not apologised to me, or taken up our offer to come to our property, so they can mitigate their actual impacts they are causing us and other people in their homes/properties and the health impacts we suffer. We should all be put on hardship money each week and fully backpaid. Karuah East Quarry Modification 11 and Karuah Hard Rock Quarry Modification 2 should be removing rock to the centre of the earth. Its moving into NEW areas. Therefore the process should NEVER be rushed through to this ever continuing fradulent planning approvals for these types of developments, e.g. a rock mine/quarry. And this quarry developer and his staff and people in various Departments continue to allow the wrongful approval of quarry pit extensions into the offset bushland areas, where wildlife live or new land areas. How disgusting that I think MOD 10 went into the offset areas, with bird, animals boxes in trees. This should not have happened and should not still be happening on these properties or anywhere. Any remaining bushland/forests must be protected for the remaining wildlife species in these bushland/forest areas and not this continual approval to destroy wildlife and their habitat. Under deceitful means there has been boundary adjustments going on from the beginning, and I remember in around 2014, the community was objecting to this "boundary adjustment", as it was without ANY submission period, deemed by DPIE staff to be minimal… which was complete rot. If it’s a new area, needing an Application to move into that area, then it should not be pushed through rapidly regardless of what resource is there to exploit. These are new areas, new bushland/forests to be destroyed, more wildlife species to be killed, more Creek to River Systems to be destroyed and the aquatic wildlife species to die, including the hanging swamps, seen standing on our driveway. We can also see rainforest areas also being destroyed and old growth trees also being destroyed and the Wedgetail Eagles nesting tree (is it still standing) and surrounding forests, also being destroyed, all while standing on our driveway, without binoculars, we can see clearly what is happening. The timeframe needs to stop for the planning departments count down. The community was robbed of a full 28 day submission period at the minimum. I find it extremely interesting that we on our property/as other people we know, who are smashed by Hilton Grugeon/Hunter Quarries existence, were not told about the modifications/extensions for 1 to 9 MOD and ONLY told about MOD10, which showed up the wilful neglect to notify people such as myself and others who lodged objections and have health issues from these quarries and we were prevented from various Departments including DPIE, in being advised by letter of the proposed Application, to even be able to lodge our objections. Here it is MOD11 and while we have been advised and thank the DPIE staff for this letter in our mailbox on the actual first day of the submission period. Timed so we don’t get advance warning ahead of a submission period… well done to you all. If the letter had not come of course, I/we would not have known about it, would we! I have had staff tell me trying to cover the ugly tracks, which had been done in preventing real-time victims of Hilton Grugeon/Hunter Quarries/Staff etc. in lodging our objections living in a Democratic Country as Australia..... or are we! I was and others were, prevented from lodging our objections, to Modifications of Hunter Quarries operations in this parcel of land of multiples of pits. Meaning that out of 11 Modifications, we being smashed by Hilton Grugeon/operations, were advised twice out of eleven modifications. I am still waiting to be given the legislation that we are only notified 1 out of 10, as I had been advised by DPIE staff for all that time. However that is again not true. As we have been advised for MOD11. So I raise there is not clear above board treatment towards the public, or to a property owners as myself, who has been dreadfully health impacted by Hunter Quarries and nearly being killed, by being gassed standing on my driveway taking pictures and film of Hunter Quarries to our direct EAST. Yet here we are with MOD11. How can any of that make sense to anyone, that actually believes in living in a Democracy of truth, transparency, above board, honesty and not stopping people from lodging objections as you have done previously to me and others, 9 times previous for Hilton Grugeon/Hunter Quarries modifications. Whether they were withdrawn or not, we as the public should have been advised each and every time. We as a property catastrophically affected, I expect we are notified ahead of time, for any of the pits in any of the areas on these entire parcels of land for any further applications, whether I was denied to write objections, whether my objections were conveniently redacted, received honestly and counted or not. Again, no one came to our property to meet us and discuss how both these 2 mining/quarry pits, were going to affect Stephen and I and other people around us, who suffer nose bleeds, respiratory issues, irritated eyes, permanent affects from being gassed by blasting fumes, dust inside our house and contaminated tank water. No one from any department came out to conduct surveys on our property or spoke to us about the real-time impacts you all know we suffer, other people around us suffer. If there was an organisation that could see through this as corruption, I would assist them for free to take the people/departments responsible for tampering with people’s lives/health and mental health, our properties are being impacted as our health is, our animals and the poor wildlife having this thrust upon them. We have been left with permanent health issues associated with bushland clearance next door to us. We are left with screeching in our ears 24/7. It stops us sleeping, or wakes us up. Meanwhile people in various departments keep approving mining, quarries, extractive industries and bushland clearance, reject these applications.

Mrs Amanda Albury
151 Forest Glen Road
Limeburners Creek NSW 2324
9th June 2026
Subject: Amanda Albury’s - objection to SSD Application, MOD11, MP09_0175-Mod-11, Karuah East Quarry Modification 11, and Karuah Hard Rock Quarry Modification 2
Who is the person who thinks that 13 days to respond to a massive documentation overload of 2 mining/quarry companies and all the Departments paperwork as well. 4690m acres and more to be destroyed if these extensions are approved.
All State Significant developments should be no less than 28 days, considering been planning and scheming their next attack areas and regardless of whether on the documentation the removal of the cliff between (Karuah East Quarry and Karuah Hard Rock Quarry) which I object to both being given approval, this should not happen in the way it has been put to the general public, or stake holder property owners like us. Who were not visited by ANYONE of any DEPARTMENT or HILTON GRUGEON or his STAFF, EPA NEWCASTLE, DPIE PARRAMATTA. No one made any attempt to contact us, or make a time to come out and see us and explain, how you are intending to “mitigate” the actual and real-time impacts we are already suffering from Hilton Grugeon and his rock mine quarry companies and various pits. We are already smashed by dirt/rock particles inside and outside our house, from the operations of multiples of pits, cliffs, overburden dump, blasting fumes, blasting noise, blasting vibrations etc. Then add the fact that we are no longer advised when Hilton Grugeon and his staff intend to blast, is beyond rude, offensive, dangerous to anyone on our property our animals and wildlife. Considering what happened to me in 2023, when I was gassed by blasting fumes, standing on our driveway, filming the blast that caused 3 black smoke plumes to go into the natural clouds above, which they do regularly, and these clouds obviously move around the landscape, and then drop the dust/rock particles and blasting fumes and/or acid rain?, onto unfortunate people and animals, such as myself and my poor cats in their catrun, who were gassed as I was (standing infront diagonally to their catrun), myself and our 2 cats all had nose bleeds for days, with me having regular sinus and nose bleeds, when the lining of my nose and sins, still is being turned to red blood mush from this health crime committed on me, yet no one has been held accountable. No one has been charged with allowing blasting fumes to come off the properties of coal mines/quarries without compensation to their victims, assistance for us/others to modify their house, capped drinking water tanks, air purifiers. The general public should be notified in a longer timeframe than 28 days and these two (2) separate pit modification Applications, should have been in their own submission period, not over the top of each other for the general public to be able to at least read the various documentation associated with each quarry mine pit. Its already too confusing to keep up with all the various names of all the pits. I looked at the maps and the one I was looking at, I could not find the area between they want to have removed. Perhaps its hiding on another map somewhere else?
Considering also we on our Wallaburra property at Forest Glen Road, Limburners Creek, are directly opposite to our EAST and are smashed by Hilton Grugeon and his multiples of pits/operations, as are other people on their property, who are also smashed by Hilton Grugeon's multiples of pits, cliffs, overburden dumps, dirt that pours off that area in the east to west breeze and whips us standing on our driveway causing nose bleeds to most people who have had this happen while looking at this disgusting attack on the environment at our place or theirs. Also the blasting fumes nearly killed me in 2023, of which Hilton Grugeon and his staff have still not apologised to me, or taken up our offer to come to our property, so they can mitigate their actual impacts they are causing us and other people in their homes/properties and the health impacts we suffer. We should all be put on hardship money each week and fully backpaid. Karuah East Quarry Modification 11 and Karuah Hard Rock Quarry Modification 2 should be removing rock to the centre of the earth. Its moving into NEW areas. Therefore the process should NEVER be rushed through to this ever continuing fradulent planning approvals for these types of developments, e.g. a rock mine/quarry. And this quarry developer and his staff and people in various Departments continue to allow the wrongful approval of quarry pit extensions into the offset bushland areas, where wildlife live or new land areas. How disgusting that I think MOD 10 went into the offset areas, with bird, animals boxes in trees. This should not have happened and should not still be happening on these properties or anywhere. Any remaining bushland/forests must be protected for the remaining wildlife species in these bushland/forest areas and not this continual approval to destroy wildlife and their habitat. Under deceitful means there has been boundary adjustments going on from the beginning, and I remember in around 2014, the community was objecting to this "boundary adjustment", as it was without ANY submission period, deemed by DPIE staff to be minimal… which was complete rot. If it’s a new area, needing an Application to move into that area, then it should not be pushed through rapidly regardless of what resource is there to exploit. These are new areas, new bushland/forests to be destroyed, more wildlife species to be killed, more Creek to River Systems to be destroyed and the aquatic wildlife species to die, including the hanging swamps, seen standing on our driveway. We can also see rainforest areas also being destroyed and old growth trees also being destroyed and the Wedgetail Eagles nesting tree (is it still standing) and surrounding forests, also being destroyed, all while standing on our driveway, without binoculars, we can see clearly what is happening. The timeframe needs to stop for the planning departments count down. The community was robbed of a full 28 day submission period at the minimum. I find it extremely interesting that we on our property/as other people we know, who are smashed by Hilton Grugeon/Hunter Quarries existence, were not told about the modifications/extensions for 1 to 9 MOD and ONLY told about MOD10, which showed up the wilful neglect to notify people such as myself and others who lodged objections and have health issues from these quarries and we were prevented from various Departments including DPIE, in being advised by letter of the proposed Application, to even be able to lodge our objections. Here it is MOD11 and while we have been advised and thank the DPIE staff for this letter in our mailbox on the actual first day of the submission period. Timed so we don’t get advance warning ahead of a submission period… well done to you all. If the letter had not come of course, I/we would not have known about it, would we! I have had staff tell me trying to cover the ugly tracks, which had been done in preventing real-time victims of Hilton Grugeon/Hunter Quarries/Staff etc. in lodging our objections living in a Democratic Country as Australia..... or are we! I was and others were, prevented from lodging our objections, to Modifications of Hunter Quarries operations in this parcel of land of multiples of pits. Meaning that out of 11 Modifications, we being smashed by Hilton Grugeon/operations, were advised twice out of eleven modifications. I am still waiting to be given the legislation that we are only notified 1 out of 10, as I had been advised by DPIE staff for all that time. However that is again not true. As we have been advised for MOD11. So I raise there is not clear above board treatment towards the public, or to a property owners as myself, who has been dreadfully health impacted by Hunter Quarries and nearly being killed, by being gassed standing on my driveway taking pictures and film of Hunter Quarries to our direct EAST. Yet here we are with MOD11. How can any of that make sense to anyone, that actually believes in living in a Democracy of truth, transparency, above board, honesty and not stopping people from lodging objections as you have done previously to me and others, 9 times previous for Hilton Grugeon/Hunter Quarries modifications. Whether they were withdrawn or not, we as the public should have been advised each and every time. We as a property catastrophically affected, I expect we are notified ahead of time, for any of the pits in any of the areas on these entire parcels of land for any further applications, whether I was denied to write objections, whether my objections were conveniently redacted, received honestly and counted or not. Again, no one came to our property to meet us and discuss how both these 2 mining/quarry pits, were going to affect Stephen and I and other people around us, who suffer nose bleeds, respiratory issues, irritated eyes, permanent affects from being gassed by blasting fumes, dust inside our house and contaminated tank water. No one from any department came out to conduct surveys on our property or spoke to us about the real-time impacts you all know we suffer, other people around us suffer. If there was an organisation that could see through this as corruption, I would assist them for free to take the people/departments responsible for tampering with people’s lives/health and mental health, our properties are being impacted as our health is, our animals and the poor wildlife having this thrust upon them. We have been left with permanent health issues associated with bushland clearance next door to us. We are left with screeching in our ears 24/7. It stops us sleeping, or wakes us up. Meanwhile people in various departments keep approving mining, quarries, extractive industries and bushland clearance, reject these applications.

I support the project

I strongly object to this proposed Karuah Hard Rock Quarry Modification 2 and will highlight my concerns below. The changes to the Quarry operational hours are most concerning as it will increase heavy vehicle traffic both on feeder roads to and from the Quarry and of most concern is the increase on the Highway, especially as the proposed product dispatch time is changing from the current 7 am to 5 am ,while at the end of the day from current 6 pm finish to a proposed 9 pm .This will place more heavy vehicles both early morning and late at night on our already heavy vehicle congested roads .This places motorists at much greater risk especially in the winter months in darkness and is not acceptable at all.Saturday is being proposed to change from 7 am start currently to 5am & finishing change from 6 pm to 10 pm ,this is on a weekend day when more people are travelling on the highway for a multitude of reasons, the NSW State Government ,which the Planning Department comes under seem determined to neglect the huge increases of heavy vehicles on our roads especially the Highway, these heavy vehicles increase the risk of accidents and have a huge impact on road deterioration due to their excessive weight and constant pressure on road surfaces. The increase of existing blast times from the current finish time of 3 pm to a proposed 5 pm will also increase both noise ,dust and potential poisonous gases into the surrounding areas and atmosphere. Although these proposed change of hours on paper ,including desktop analysis, minimal impact, we all know that slowly but surely these modifications are chipping away to increase, noise,dust ,heavy vehicle traffic and pollution.
This modification includes the destruction of 10.8 hectares of vegetation ,and also a disturbance area of 28.1 hectares, this will only detrimental to both our vanishing flora and fauna, once again forced out or killed for the pursuit of a saleable commodity. Establishing a 16 ha conservation offset area is just part of the Government and private companies way of looking like they are preserving our flora and fauna when we all know that at the stroke of an approval pen ,these areas can be later changed in the pursuit of more product for monetary gain .
This Modification should be rejected as it will have cumulative impacts on heavy vehicle traffic, air quality, noise,dust and our precious environment