I support the project

SILVER MINING in the Central West Region
The Bowdens Silver Project is a huge opportunity for the regional communities of the Central West region where the investment and jobs that will be generated by this project are desperately needed.
We need the Bowdens Silver Project to be approved to secure jobs and investment for local communities. Most of the workforce will live locally and contribute directly to the region’s community.
The Bowdens Silver Project has the support of the local community, local MPs, local Council and local businesses.
Our metal mining industry supplies the metals needed for products that we use every day such as mobile phones, batteries, cars, solar panels and televisions.
Mining is important to me and my family, our community and NSW.
The project will provide 320 jobs during construction and permanent full-time employment for 228 people during the project’s operation across the 16 year projected mine life.
The federal government’s tables of multiplier effects shows that more than three times as many indirect jobs are created for every person directly employed in a mine.
Mining provides Australia’s most valuable exports.
The state of NSW will benefit from royalties by approval for this project. This is money that NSW will be able to spend on our hospitals, schools, emergency services and roads.
Our national, state and local economies rely heavily on mining, so mining benefits all Australians.
NSW needs to focus on the positive aspects of mining and its many benefits so as to not be distracted by ideologically driven anti-mining activists.
We should all be proud of what mining is doing and can do in future for Australia, NSW and the Central West Region.
The reports submitted for the Bowdens Silver Project demonstrates its comprehensive coverage of all environmental issues. The benefits from the commencement of this silver mine are immense.
For all of these reasons I fully support the Bowdens Silver Project.

SILVER MINING in the Central West Region

The Bowdens Silver Project is a huge opportunity for the regional communities of the Central West region where the investment and jobs that will be generated by this project are desperately needed.
We need the Bowdens Silver Project to be approved to secure jobs and investment for local communities. Most of the workforce will live locally and contribute directly to the region’s community.
The Bowdens Silver Project has the support of the local community, local MPs, local Council and local businesses.
Our metal mining industry supplies the metals needed for products that we use every day such as mobile phones, batteries, cars, solar panels and televisions.
Mining is important to me and my family, our community and NSW.
The project will provide 320 jobs during construction and permanent full-time employment for 228 people during the project’s operation across the 16 year projected mine life.
The federal government’s tables of multiplier effects shows that more than three times as many indirect jobs are created for every person directly employed in a mine.
Mining provides Australia’s most valuable exports.
The state of NSW will benefit from royalties by approval for this project. This is money that NSW will be able to spend on our hospitals, schools, emergency services and roads.
Our national, state and local economies rely heavily on mining, so mining benefits all Australians.
NSW needs to focus on the positive aspects of mining and its many benefits so as to not be distracted by ideologically driven anti-mining activists.
We should all be proud of what mining is doing and can do in future for Australia, NSW and the Central West Region.
The reports submitted for the Bowdens Silver Project demonstrates its comprehensive coverage of all environmental issues. The benefits from the commencement of this silver mine are immense.
For all of these reasons I fully support the Bowdens Silver Project.

The amendment is a very comprehensive update and demonstration by Bowden's silver that they are committed to ensuring minimisation of impacts to the surrounding communities and, landscape and biodiversity. The Biodiversity offset program and locations committed to, provide exceptional alternatives for wildlife to establish, whilst mining operations are undertaken. The commitment to ensure that the 500Kv line and water infrastructure changes are also very good, providing much improved water usage efficiencies and minimisation of impacts which were apparent in the original EIS. Silver Mines Ltd is truly committed to adding value to this region, inclusive of the Mudgee township where it faces the winding down of the Ulan coal mine. The State of NSW, and therefore all New South Welsh also stand to benefit from this project greatly through royalties.

The amendments presented demonstrate the commitment and responsibility of Silver Mines Ltd to the project and to the surrounding areas in terms of biodiversity outcomes, minimisation of impacts, economic wellbeing of the entire region and that of Australia's national interest. The greater Mudgee region, I believe, needs this project to go ahead in light of the pending Coal mine closure. This is also an opportunity for Australia to take control of its strategic resources, particularly Silver which is used extensively in green energy products worldwide(Particularly Solar panels). In order for Australia to kick Coal energy for good(and its mining), the Bowdens silver project is a "must have" to assist in Australia's development of its green energy future. We can either continue to live the status quo with Crude oil/fossil fuels, or take control of our future and bring Australia's largest silver deposit to the green energy future.