the generosity of MACH has enabled these organisations to provide improved services and entertainment to our community during these interacations Noelene and I have found Mt Pleasant to be both generous and professional to do business with.

It's important that we stop digging up coal. That coal will be burnt and add to the greenhouse gases thereby endangering our and our children's lives. These are the scientific facts. The profit that a few elites will gain is not worth the death and destruction this expansion will cause.

The Mining and Energy Union Northern Mining and NSW Energy District (MEU) is proud to represent coal mine workers in the northern coalfields of NSW, including at the Mount Pleasant Operation.
We support the approval of the Mount Pleasant Mod 8 – Extension of mine life application (DA92/97-Mod-8). The application provides certainty to over 700 direct full-time equivalent employees and their families, 70 per cent of whom live locally in Singleton, Muswellbrook, and Upper Hunter local government areas, and secures the future of the mine through to 31 December 2032 while legal proceedings around application SD 10418 are resolved. The Mount Pleasant Mod 8 application must be supported to protect these workers’ livelihoods beyond the expiry of current approvals in December of this year.
Despite Mount Pleasant receiving Independent Planning Commission approval almost four years ago to operate through to 2048, workers at the mine remain in a state of uncertainty about the future of their jobs, with that matter now headed to the High Court. Mod 8 will ensure continuity of employment for these workers in the short and medium term while the matter is resolved.
Securing Mount Pleasant jobs through to 2032 is critically important in the broader context of the region and its transition. With BHP’s Mt Arthur and Glencore’s Mangoola mine already scheduled to close in 2030, the unexpected and unintended closure of Mount Pleasant in 2026 would upend careful planning for an orderly transition in the Upper Hunter and compound the challenges faced by the community in managing the local unemployment and economic impacts of site closures.
An extension to 2032 affords Mount Pleasant workers time to plan for their future and supports more positive transition outcomes over the longer term and in the broader local context of mine and power station closures. Indeed, when considering this regional context, Mount Pleasant’s status as a large-scale employer of skilled mine workers intending to operate for decades to come takes on even greater importance to the local community and economy. Mount Pleasant can be a long-term source of reliable economic activity for the Hunter region as planned new industries ramp up over time.
The Mod 8 application would protect the livelihoods and incomes of hundreds of local workers, including those at local supply chain businesses who support the mining industry. In turn, these workers use their incomes to support the local small businesses and community groups that form the very fabric of the local community and its wellbeing.
The Mod 8 application includes extensive commitments around emissions management and mitigation. Mount Pleasant is subject to federal emissions reduction obligations under the Safeguard Mechanism. Due to its low emissions intensity and moderate fugitive emissions, the modification would see the mine continue well-below the Safeguard Mechanism’s emissions intensity baseline for coal production and remain one of the lowest emissions intensity coal mines in NSW. An extension to Mount Pleasant therefore aligns with federal and state government commitments to an orderly transition for the coal industry, which supports local communities and workers, serves export partners, and promotes sustainable operation.
Mount Pleasant Mod 8 is both a sensible and necessary application and the MEU strongly supports its approval.

This is a complete ariafion to the existi g approval and neeeds to re e amined by an indipent body.
It will add to the climate crisis and i.pact our grandchildren. It will be against the net zero aims
Please reconsider this appli afion. Tbere is no planet B.

There is a quickly escalating existential climate change threat that this mine extension will be exacerbating.
The approval of this mine extension would be in direct contradiction of the NSW Government's own Net Zero Commission recommendations that coal mine extensions would not be consistent with NSW climate law or the Paris Climate Agreement.

This Modification is NOT business as usual and it is NOT substantially the same as the current approval.

This Modification will have significant social and environmental impacts, including:
air quality
greenhouse gas emissions
1.5 million tonnes of local greenhouse gas pollution over the next 10years in NSW
over 100 million tonnes of downstream emissions
all at a time when NSW is NOT on track to meet its legislated 2030 or 2050 emissions reductions targets.
noise and blasting
unacceptable risks to our water quality and quantity - the lifeblood of our industry and community
landscape and visual amenity - not a soft issue for any community.


The community has not been given procedural fairness to provide informed comment on this Modification
Neither 14 nor 21 days are considered fair to digest and assess over 3,400 pages of highly complex, technical reports affecting our livelihoods, our future and future generations.

This modification is NOT in the public interest - because:
it does not meet the Government’s ecologically sustainable development principles - particularly inter-generational equity
it does not meet the Government’s legislated Net Zero Emissions targets
It is in direct opposition to the NSW Net Zero Commission’s advice (December 2025) that “continued extensions or expansions to coal mining in NSW are not consistent” with NSW climate law.

The speed with which this Modification is being rushed through the planning process does not engender trust in our community.
It is contrary to the Department’s community participation plan and the principles of respect, collaboration, communication and trust included therein.

In my view it is inappropriate that this Modification 8 is being rushed through at this time.
Mt Pleasant had lodged a similar modification (Mod 7) some years ago but chose to withdraw it.
Why is the Department rushing this application through when MACH Energy is before the High Court on its Optimisation Project?
Rushing this proposal through the planning system before the High Court’s judgment is risky, confusing, environmentally damaging and diminishing trust in the public planning.


This Modification is not substantially the same as the current approval. It is environmentally harmful, has no social license. It is not in the public interest and should be refused.

Please see attached PDF submission.

To whom it may concern,
I am submitting my strong objection to the extension of Mt Pleasant mine, and to any additional increase to the mine’s annual production. Please see my attachment.
Anita Lawrance