State Significant Development
Determination
Warkworth Coal Mine Continuation
Singleton Shire
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Complaints
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On 22 June 2023, NSW Planning issued an Official Caution to Warkworth Mining Ltd (WML) for exceeded noise impact assessment criteria at three noise monitoring locations for the Warkworth Continuation Project on 20 July 2022. WML had failed to implement their approved Noise Management Plan on the night of 20 July 2022 in the lead up to the exceedances. WML have since implemented measures to ensure compliance with their management plan and NSW Planningcontinues to monitor WML's noise reporting data and implementation of the NMP.
Inspections
14/12/2021
18/08/2022
27/09/2022
22/11/2022
27/04/2023
18/05/2023
26/10/2023
22/02/2024
2/09/2024
Note: Only enforcements and inspections undertaken by the Department from March 2020 will be shown above.
Submissions
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Singleton
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New South Wales
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Support Warkworth
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Singleton
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New South Wales
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I support Warkworth
Mark Farrell
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Mark Farrell
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Cessnock
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New South Wales
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I support the extension. MTW employees 1300 workers who live in the local community and support the local economy. Without the extension these jobs will GO and many families and the local community itself will suffer.
Haydn Luly
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Haydn Luly
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Aberdare
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New South Wales
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I am a light vehicle mechanic with Sargent four wheel drive hire. I'm permanently based on site at Mt Thorley/ Warkworth and if this extension fails to pass I will be without a job. My fiancé is studying at newcastle university and I am the household provider. If I loose my job in this current economic climate, we will have no choice but for her to drop out of uni so we can move out of the area.
Adam Farrell
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Adam Farrell
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Bellbird
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New South Wales
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Please allow my friends to keep digging in the dirt with their Tonka trucks to get coal. I am all for the extentions of the warkworth open cut mine and would hate to see any of them lose their jobs!!
Pam Melville
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Pam Melville
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BROKE
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New South Wales
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1300 jobs. Unthinkable! How can our district filter 1300 workers throu - out the workforce in our country town .Impossible !The carnage will be catastrophic.I personally will loose a life times work with little hope of future employment being over 50 yrs of age. Please seriously consider the impact of this.
Brennden Dewson
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Brennden Dewson
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Muswellbrook
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New South Wales
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We need the mine to stay open so the workers can provide for their family's and keep the local community going
Tamika Honeysett
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Tamika Honeysett
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Aberdare
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New South Wales
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Without this expansion thousands of hard working Australian men and women will lose their jobs, including my partner. However, the closure of this mine site won't only affect these workers directly, but the Singleton community and surrounds. Without this mine these communities will suffer at large. Small business will suffer greatly because these families will move to where there is work injecting their hard earned money into another mining community. Mining in Australia is apart of our culture, wether we like it or not. We use coal everyday. Without it we wouldn't be able to live the lives we live today. We live in the 21st century. This Expansion will also provide more jobs, which means more money for local communities. EXPAND WARKWORTH MINE!
ross whitten
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ross whitten
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avoca beach
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New South Wales
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These boys and girls they deserve to keep there jpbs and the the local community need to keep the income from the mining sector to keep employing local people who are employed outside of MTW so wake up and give the approval to keep my brothers and sisters employed thank you
ross whitten
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ross whitten
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avoca beach
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New South Wales
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These boys and girls they deserve to keep there jpbs and the the local community need to keep the income from the mining sector to keep employing local people who are employed outside of MTW so wake up and give the approval to keep my brothers and sisters employed thank you
Guido Murner
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Guido Murner
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Fennell Bay
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New South Wales
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My family and I depend on warkworth mine. Its not just a job its our only source of income. If i loose my job we loose our house, cars and dignity. Thousands of people depend on the mining industry not just the people who work there but whole communities...
m Hoult
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m Hoult
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Raworth
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New South Wales
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I support the expansion of Mt Thorley/Warworth mine. I have been at the site for just over 2 years now after coming from Hydro Aluminium which closed down in 2012.
I know the devastating effects of job losses and if we don't have approval to expand the job losses will be far more devastating and far reaching than what we saw at Hydro Aluminium.
I have a wife and 4 children which depend on my employment at the mine. With an expansion this will support our family until my retirement and provide apprenticeships to members of my family should they choose to following in the same footsteps that I followed as my father who used to also work at the same mine.
I know the devastating effects of job losses and if we don't have approval to expand the job losses will be far more devastating and far reaching than what we saw at Hydro Aluminium.
I have a wife and 4 children which depend on my employment at the mine. With an expansion this will support our family until my retirement and provide apprenticeships to members of my family should they choose to following in the same footsteps that I followed as my father who used to also work at the same mine.
John Norseman
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John Norseman
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Green Point
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New South Wales
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OUr friend put has put our feelings on this very succinctly please accept Our position as very sincere and heartfelt ,"The potential impact on the Warkworth sands is unacceptable; the offset requirements are insufficient; the use of mine rehabilitation, an existing requirement, to offset the impact is not satisfactory for this project or any projects as will be the case due to the soon to be released Framework for Biodiversity Assessment (FBA) for major projects; the fact that the government is allowing an existing offset to be mined means that there is no guarantee that the inadequate offsets that are being proposed will be conserved into perpetuity."
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largs
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New South Wales
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My family and i rely on warkworth mine if the extension didnt go through i dont know what my family would do . The money we spend in the local community as do the other 1300 employees is crucial for small businesses in the area not to mention the money the mine spends at local suppliers . I really hope you make the right decision and grant the extension i feel it is the right decision for the employees and the local community
Amy Dodd
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Amy Dodd
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Raymond terrace
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New South Wales
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Support MTW!
Our families needs job,
Our children deserve a good life.
Jobs are very few and far between.
We need this mine and the workers need their jobs.
Stopping MTW will not only effect the 1300 that are employees there but the follow on down the line is massive.
No job means no spending. No money breeds depression and poor life choices.
Support MTW and the thousands of families that depend on this mine.
Our families needs job,
Our children deserve a good life.
Jobs are very few and far between.
We need this mine and the workers need their jobs.
Stopping MTW will not only effect the 1300 that are employees there but the follow on down the line is massive.
No job means no spending. No money breeds depression and poor life choices.
Support MTW and the thousands of families that depend on this mine.
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Paxton
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New South Wales
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Without local mines alot of families and the community will struggle.
Mining is a big part of this area and has been since 1900s.
The recent down turn has seen so many job cuts and generous contributions from the mining industry to various local organisation's stop.
This extension should go ahead, keep our community going.
Mining is a big part of this area and has been since 1900s.
The recent down turn has seen so many job cuts and generous contributions from the mining industry to various local organisation's stop.
This extension should go ahead, keep our community going.
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Clarence Town
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New South Wales
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Realistically we are dependant on coal mining to keep countless ancillary suppliers of goods and services in business.
The job cuts at the mine are minute compared to the knock - on effect to the surrounding areas.
The job cuts at the mine are minute compared to the knock - on effect to the surrounding areas.
Jason Dodd
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Jason Dodd
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Raymond terrace
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New South Wales
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As a former contracted worker for the site, i have full support for the extension proposal and what value it means for the local workers, industry and community for their jobs and financial stability.
Nathan wells
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Nathan wells
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Gresford
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New South Wales
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I have just started work at MTW about a month ago and hope to have a long and enjoyable career at this site, the majority of my small community has various positions in mines all through out the valley and a large number of them are at Mt thorley warkworth, the reduction of employment at this site will affect my community greatly not to mention the rest of the hunter valley, unemployment will greatly increase and be a further burden on this country, jobs are hard to come by these days and I fear to find another job in this industry with the current downturn I will have to go interstate which I don't want to have to do, so please support the extension as it means jobs for all the surrounding community's which will struggle with out this business employing it's people
Ben Haigh
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Ben Haigh
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27 Elliott street merewether
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New South Wales
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If this mine closes businesses will closely follow! Don't stop whats been feeding our towns family's for yrs ! Everyone will benifit from the extension not just the Mtw
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Project Details
Application Number
SSD-6464
Assessment Type
State Significant Development
Development Type
Coal Mining
Local Government Areas
Singleton Shire
Decision
Approved
Determination Date
Decider
IPC-N
Last Modified By
SSD-6464-Mod-2
Last Modified On
27/05/2022
Contact Planner
Name
Elle
Donnelley