Warkworth Coal Mine Continuation

This extension is great for the valley. MTW provide an excellent source of income to the town of Singleton by providing not only employees with income but small business the chance to prosper and maintain a living with their custom. As I see it the flow on effect from not granting this extension is disastrous for the Singleton Community.

They valley needs MTW extension.

My business has seen a dramatic decline in business since the down turn of the mining industry. The way I see it is if MTW does not get its extension I will lose more customers and therefore will probably need to close my business doors. As a widower of the age of 60 my prospects for reemployment are slim to none. I am suffering enough please don't let the last of my business go down. MTW must go ahead well into the future, I am not the only one who is dependent on this it is not just about the workers at MTW or the people of Bulga, Singleton residents are suffering at the hands of a minority of people.

This project is imperative to ensure the success of families and livelihoods in the hunter valley

This is a submission against both the Warkworth (SSD 6464) and Mt Thorley (SSD 6465) Continuation Projects.

The NSW Land and Environment Court ruled in April 2013 that expanding the Warkworth coal mine would do the NSW public more harm than good. 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.

The Bulga people and their many supporters justly assumed that this would be the end of the project. Instead, Rio Tinto have simply resubmitted their mining application. It has been split in two, and the name updated, but 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.

The Department must respect the decisions of the NSW Land and Environment Court, and the NSW Supreme Court (Court of Appeal), and reject these applications.

This is a submission against both the Warkworth (SSD 6464) and Mt Thorley (SSD 6465) Continuation Projects.

The NSW Land and Environment Court ruled in April 2013 that expanding the Warkworth coal mine would do the NSW public more harm than good. 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.

The Bulga people and their many supporters justly assumed that this would be the end of the project. Instead, Rio Tinto have simply resubmitted their mining application. It has been split in two, and the name updated, but 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.

The Department must respect the decisions of the NSW Land and Environment Court, and the NSW Supreme Court (Court of Appeal), and reject these applications.

Without these mining expansions there will be no town, jobs or community.
I support it 100%.
Mining is my life. It's how I support my son and pay my mortgage.
I love my job and hope that my son will also have a great job in mining.

This is a submission against both the Warkworth (SSD 6464) and Mt Thorley (SSD 6465) Continuation Projects.

The NSW Land and Environment Court ruled in April 2013 that expanding the Warkworth coal mine would do the NSW public more harm than good. 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.

The Bulga people and their many supporters justly assumed that this would be the end of the project. Instead, Rio Tinto have simply resubmitted their mining application. It has been split in two, and the name updated, but 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.

The Department must respect the decisions of the NSW Land and Environment Court, and the NSW Supreme Court (Court of Appeal), and reject these applications.

As an australian, I object to this lunacy. it's all about money and our country can do without it!! The water they use (which we never have enough anyway) the way they rip our beautiful countryside up is disgusting and any government who let's this sort of thing keep growing has lost me as a voter. It makes me want to cry to see all this happening . Soon we will be just a big quarry and we won't have anything left to leave our children.
STOP IT NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in the support of Mount Thorley Warkworth mine to go ahead as my husband works there and if it was to close we would have to relocate and that would not only leave my husband without a job but also possibility of moving and that would mean taking my son out of high school as he is in year 10 and also my daughter has just found employment and that would mean my daughter may have to leave that job. That would also mean leaving this area which we all do not want to do. This would not only affect our family but the many more who rely on this mine for employment and also the many other businesses who rely on the mining industry.

This is a submission against both the Warkworth (SSD 6464) and Mt Thorley (SSD 6465) Continuation Projects.

The NSW Land and Environment Court ruled in April 2013 that expanding the Warkworth coal mine would do the NSW public more harm than good. 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.

The Bulga people and their many supporters justly assumed that this would be the end of the project. Instead, Rio Tinto have simply resubmitted their mining application. It has been split in two, and the name updated, but 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.

The Department must respect the decisions of the NSW Land and Environment Court, and the NSW Supreme Court (Court of Appeal), and reject these applications.

Before you act in favour of this mine please keep in mind the Chinese Government is NOW acting to reduce its consumption of coal, I quote from the Guardian Newspaper...

government will use two ways to control CO2 emissions in the next five-year plan, by intensity and an absolute cap". This was the first time the promise of limiting absolute emissions had emerged from a source close to the Chinese leadership (even if He was later forced to disown the comments).

The response of world's largest emitter of carbon has the potential to be swift and decisive, given its centrally controlled economy. Responding to smog-tired residents in China's cities, the government has ordered a mass shutdown of coal plants within a few years. Coal control measures now exist in 12 of the country's 34 provinces. Greenpeacehave estimated that if these measures are implemented, it could bring China's emissions close to the level the International Energy Agency says are needed to avoid more than 2C warming.

It is becoming apparent that some of the major coal projects currently planned in Australia will not make it to the production stage.

On your watch, you can limit the environmental destruction.

I approve of the extension

I am a fellow miner in the Hunter Valley, and I support the continuation. I believe that without mining, the whole country goes backwards.

I support the Warkworth continuation project. I am an electrician at Rio Tinto's Bengalla mine, and did my apprenticeship at MTW (warkworth). During this time at Warkworth, I gained an understanding at just how important the mine is for the Hunter community. I worked with many Hunter Valley locals at Warkworth and being a Singleton local, I can see every day just how important the mining industry is for local business, both small and big. Warkworth also provides excellent opportunities for young people to gain training and skills via apprenticeship and traineeship programs. If Warkworth isn't continued, all this will be lost. If warkworth isn't continues, all these LOCAL jobs will be lost.

I support this mine as my uncle is a direct employee of MTW and all my mates get sub-contracted out there. Keep this mine so they have some job security.

I support the continuation of MTW.

Matter has already been through two courts and expansion was denied. I personally object to expansion on many grounds the least of which being noise, dust and devaluation of properties. I strongly object to these two new applications.

I support the MTW continuation.

I want the expansion to go through so jobs are sustained.