Dear Planning Department,
I wish to request that the Department refuse the plan put forward by Dendrobium to extend mining in the catchment of the Sydney water supply.

I ask that no plan that poses any threat to the stability of Sydney’s water supply now or into the future be accepted.
Any threat to such a long-term necessary asset for the survival of people in the greater Sydney area by a shortterm profitmaking enterprise in my view should not be countenanced.
To accept any risk at all the the water supply for the sake of mining coal would be a serious breach of the state’s obligations to not only the people of NSW and Australia, but to the rest of the world
Yours sincerely,
Helen Esmond