Warkworth Coal Mine Continuation

Have strong long term involvement in mining communities, Queensland and New South Wales. Born, raised and educated. I have never been employed by a mining company but have family who work within the industry and I strongly support the Warkworth Continuation Project.

Please give the extension the workers and the community need this for the town to keep running.

I would love a job servicing the diesel equipment on site a your mine.

I totally support all these hard workers jobs and commitments to building a better & stronger, environment @ Warkworth Mine. The expansion is a necessary process for this mining company & all other mining companies in the region. All the person to whom r saying no against this, are kidding themselves, they to have profited at sum point in their lives from the mining community the Singleton & wider communities. We all need this for all our families, & their futures. Also for the workers @ Warkworth but for the money they spend at our local shopping centres & in the wider community that all of our other jobs rely upon. Expand Warkworth the moving forward for our future! Go the Newcastle Knights fantastic support!

Without the warkworth extension my family will be significantly affected as we relocated back to the hunter valley from darwin for my husbands position at MTW 2 years ago and at tht stage the mining approval had been given.
I fully support the proposal not only for my family but every family the operation of this mine is reliant upon.
Without mining in the hunter the economy will take a backward step and thousands of people and families will struggle to make ends meet as employment opportunities are few and far between. Thank you

Without the warkworth extension my family will be significantly affected as we relocated back to the hunter valley from darwin for my husbands position at MTW 2 years ago and at tht stage the mining approval had been given.
I fully support the proposal not only for my family but every family the operation of this mine is reliant upon.
Without mining in the hunter the economy will take a backward step and thousands of people and families will struggle to make ends meet as employment opportunities are few and far between. Thank you

I am an architect and house owner in singleton region. Many of my clients are miners and provide me with sufficient work to survive. I can't afford to be driving to Newcastle for work and we couldn't afford the daycare for kids. A strong mining industry helps people live in regional areas. We all don't want to be forced to live in city shit holes to survive. Unless the government can provide viable alternative for mining to support our region we need to support the industry that gives us so much. Yes mining affects the community but everything human brings do affects it also.

If Warkworth Mines expansion isn't approved it will have a massive effect on the local community, support services, local businesses, friends, co-workers and my personal family. My husband is employed there and we are a young family who rely on the stability of his job. We are really hoping that the expansion is approved and the life of the pit is extended. Please take this into consideration save all the heartache for all families like ours. Support it and SAVE 1300 jobs, that is the right thing to do!!!

I support the continuation

My role is reliant on the mining in the hunter and the on going relationship that our group and myself, has with Coal and Allied has been strong for many years and I want this relationship to continue into the future, thus it want to show my support for the Walkworth operation. My family relies on the on my position and contribution to mining here in the hunter..

Support mining = support for our community and families. Redundancy is the not so nice 'in' word of today's work environment. It seems all to easy to pack up and send people on their merry way with a wad of cash and no remorse. But the effect is greater than this, protect our blue collar workers to protect our community and foster growth in our local region.

I support Warkworth as I have family that work there & I am from a mining family - brother is, father, grandfathers, uncles & cousins were all coal miners.

i support this upgrade for the workforce and benefits to the local economy and community.

I am a Rio Tinto employee. I fully support the Warkworth continuation project. Not only is it good for the 1300 people employed by the mine and their families, but it is a significant input into a fragile regional economy. Furthermore, I am of the personal view that Australia's attractiveness to capital for mining projects may be damaged by not approving this project.

This extension is good for both employees and the community they live in

I am in favour of the extension as it will not only affect coal & allied employees if extension not approved it will mean loss of jobs to contractors & numerous small busisnesses in the area, ( food, fuel,clothing ect)

I'm only new to MTW. I love my job.
I would love to look to the future. MTW supports
so many people and businesses in the community.
Let's keep the valley alive. Support MTW!

I support the MTW extention. As a mining engineer on site, I see the effort site goes to, to reduce noise levels and dust at every opportunity. We take the community seriously, employeeing community response officers who monitor noise dusts and complaints. We go above and beyond safe practices. MTW gives back to the community employing 1300 people. They support students offering vacation and graduate positions, which I have been a part of. I have taken a graduate engineering position, in which i have moved myself to the valley and would be very dissappointed to have to look instate for work.

To not approve the extension at MTW would mean that a huge majority of people would have to leave the valley in search of work. This decline, which we have already started noticing, has a dramatic flow on effect for not just mine support businesses but shops and services in town. In addition causing a huge lack of income for investment property owners.

I support it

I support it