This supports Singleton & Muswellbrook businesses and the coal industry future which Australia is long to be prepared to not utilise

Self is full time employment at HVO as a contractor and sees that it is a good investment for children’s careers path

I support the continuation of the HVO Open Cut Coal Continuation Project. This Project provides a tremendous amount of support to the community, both in terms of local jobs but also supporting community events. I would like to see this support continue.

I support project

The project financially supports not only my family members, but the Hunter region as a whole. HVO mines efficiently and responsible with neighbouring communities in mind.

I object to Glencore and the HVO Continuation Project primarily because of the impact that coal mining has on the environment. The cost of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and consequential global warming from the further extraction and burning of coal simply cannot be borne any longer.
The application to extend the life of the existing operation is promoted as optimising resource recovery predominantly by extracting coal from deeper seams, yet it is also acknowledged that almost 400 hectares of native vegetation would be cleared. The precious remnant Hunter Valley woodland and the habitat it affords is irreplaceable. The Endangered Ecological Communities cannot be offset. And even if the coal really was to be extracted largely from deeper seams, the interference with the aquifers and underground waters should not be even countenanced in our uncertain future of the changing climate. The impacts of both droughts and flooding in the Hunter Valley will be exacerbated by disturbance to our already grossly destablised landform and ecosystem functions.
Please regard this as an objection to both the HVO North and South Continuation project applications. The globe and global community cannot afford the extraction of an additional 400 Mt of run-of-mine (ROM) coal. I ask for the decision to be made in the public interest rather than for short term private corporate gain.

I support the continuation of Hvo mine as it supports the locals and give many family's jobs, closure would be a catastrophe and would ruin most lives as it is such a large workforce

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I am making this submission in support of the proposed continuation of mining operations at HVO North and HVO South.
Since commencing operations many decades ago, the Hunter Valley Operations mine has made an enormous socio-economic contribution to the local, regional, state and national economies. It is important that the continuation project be approved so that HVO may continue to provide direct employment for up to 1,500 workers, as well as generating very substantial flow-on economic activity that will benefit the surrounding local government areas, the Hunter Region more generally, as well as NSW and Australia.
This proposal comes at a time of continued strong demand for coal. Although an energy transition is underway in Australia and globally, the International Energy Agency forecasts that coal will play an important role in the global energy mix for decades.
As other mining operations in the Hunter Valley come to the end of their economic lives, and as opportunities for new Hunter Valley industries gradually materialise, it is critical that well-established mining operations such as HVO continue to provide the employment and economic activity to support the local and regional economies as they seek to diversify and develop those new industries. The continuation of mining at HVO North to 2050 and at HVO South to 2045 will perform an important role in supporting this energy transition diversification whilst providing stability in employment and mining-related economic activity.
The HVO Continuation Project represents an efficient use of existing infrastructure, as it will be able to utilise the existing mining areas, the existing surface infrastructure, the existing washplants and the existing rail loop and associated transportation corridor to the Port of Newcastle. Being a brownfield life-extension project, the HVO Continuation Project requires far less ground disturbance than a comparatively-sized greenfield mining operation. It is also situated in a location where coal mining has occurred for many decades and where the community is well-versed in both the positive contribution that it makes to the local area and the way in which mining-related impacts can be suitably managed.
As far as coal mining continuation projects are concerned, the HVO Continuation Project presents a compelling case for approval as the benefits that will be delivered by this project will far outweigh the adverse impacts of the project, and the impacts are capable of being managed satisfactorily (as has been demonstrated by the existing operations at the mine over many years).