Mt Thorley Coal Mine Continuation

I strongly oppose the 2014 Continuation Project (SSD 6465). This proposal seeks to expand the Mount Thorley coal mine and I request that this Development Application be refused.

Two Court decisions have been made against this proposal.
If this proposed expansion is allowed there will be further significant negative impacts arising from the continued and excessive levels of dust and noise. Health issues will escalate and we will witness permanent and irreparable damage to our immediate natural environment.
The negative impacts of mining borne by the Bulga community are of much greater significance than given credit.
People selected Bulga for the rural lifestyle and so the community is built around the common values of its residents.
These Core Values embraced by residents of the Bulga area seem to have no place or value with Rio Tinto or the NSW Government.
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This project has been touted as the "difference" between the previous Warkworth expansion project in 2010 and this 2014 application. It must be considered in conjunction withteh current Warkworth project and refused.

Extension should not be granted.
The impact of this mine is too great on our homes and our lives; No amount of Noise suppression will change the impact; It is too close to our homes now; noise limits are too high;
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My Husband and myself object to the above project because it has already been rejected by the Land and Environment court. Please see attached submission.

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Please find attached Monadelphous's submission regarding the Mount Thorley Warkworth Continuation Project.

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I do not support the application to extend the Mount Thorley and Warkworth Mine (MTW) application and I object to the application for the reasons detailed in the following attachment.

Personal Submission
WARKWORTH AND MOUNT THORLEY MINES CONTINUATION PROJECT (SSD 6464 and SSD 6465)

4 August, 2014

Tanya Tlaskal

313 Inlet Road, BULGA, NSW,2330



My name is Tanya Tlaskal and I am a resident of the village of Bulga.
I strongly oppose both the Warkworth (SSD 6464) and Mt Thorley (SSD 6465) Continuation Projects. No matter how Rio Tinto presents the project, it is still exactly the same old extension we have been fighting against for four years.

The NSW Land and Environment Court ruled in April 2013 in favour of Bulga village. Judge Preston found that the information used by Rio Tinto and NSW Planning in support of the project was wrong, and he overturned the approval.

When Rio Tinto and the NSW Government appealed that decision to the NSW Supreme Court (Court of Appeal), they lost. Two superior NSW courts have now ruled that Rio's plan to expand the Warkworth coal mine fails on merit.

We, people of Bugla were ecstatic, we have won, we thought that we can have some peace and to continue with our lives undisturbed. To our utter disbelief Rio Tinto have simply submitted the same mining application again. The old project has been split in two and the project name updated. However, these two projects (SSD 6464 and SSD 6465) are effectively the same project that has been rejected by two NSW courts (MP 09_0202).

That the Planning Department has even accepted Rio Tinto's application is a failure of procedural fairness, and makes a farce of the very process you are now asking us, the public, to participate in. We are being asked to make submissions on a project that has already been through this very same assessment process and failed - only to be resubmitted. We are being asked to submit to a process overseen by a Department that is clearly working closely with the proponent to get the project approved, and which got the decision wrong the first time around. There can be no faith in this process.

We will never stop fighting for our village, because it is a place we love and where we belong.
Our village's David and Goliath battle had become a symbol all over the world. We all know who had won in the end.