I am writing to express my agreement with the Hunter Bird Observers Club's submission.

I support the position outlined by Hunter Bird Observers Club. The proposed development will destroy an internationally important wetland where 22 species of international migratory shorebirds have been recorded.

I support the position outlined by Hunter Bird Observers Club. The proposed development will destroy an internationally important wetland where 22 species of international migratory shorebirds have been recorded. This includes three species, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew Sandpiper and Broad-billed Sandpiper which are listed under the TSC Act as Vulnerable, Endangered and Endangered respectively. Several other threatened species have been recorded there, including Black-necked Stork and Australasian Bittern both of which are listed as Endangered under the TSC Act. Two species of international migratory shorebirds, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper and Red Knot, and one species of waterfowl, Chestnut Teal, have been observed in significant numbers representing >1% of their total world population, confirming this wetland's status as internationally important.

I object to the NCIG CET Rail Flyover Modification.
My reasons for this are given in the submission from the Hunter Bird Observers Club Inc. (HBOC) against Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group Coal Export Terminal Rail Flyover Modification Stage 2F
(MP 06_0009 MOD 2) June 2012 who I whole heartly suport as a private individual.

I fully support the Hunter Bird Observers Club in regards to this matter.

I support the Hunter Bird Observers Club's submission in regards to the planned Ash Island rail flyover.

I Grant Brosie, fully support the Hunter Bird Observers Club's submission in regards to the planned rail flyover on Ash Island. The total disregard for Swan Pond's bird life is disgraceful.

In support of HBOC's submission

I am against this modification (MP 06_0009 MOD2) and support the position outlined by Hunter Bird Observers Club.

Dear Sir/Madam/Committee,
I write to voice my strenuous objection to this proposal.
I am also horrified at the duplicitous nature of the wording of the proposal.
Hidden in it is the awful fact that it would destroy one of the best remaining wetland and tidal mudflat habitats for many species of migrating waders on the Eastern Coast of Australia.
As the Department should be aware, because of the threatened or vulnerable status of a whole suite of shorebirds which undertake an annual migration from Siberia to winter in Australia, many of their essential feeding grounds have been protected by a series of international treaties.
This is a personal plea, so I need not spell out the details, which I now see have been admirably set out by the Conservation Officer of the Hunter Bird Observers' Club, Ann Lindsey. I would like to endorse her submission.
Since coming back to NSW in 1975 I have watched with alarm the decline in wader numbers on Kooragang Is. and the area around the Stockton Bridge as a variety of industrial projects [some of them no doubt essential] has eaten into their feeding grounds.
I am not convinced from what I can learn that this project is essential, nor that any need that it would meet cannot be met by a less damaging location.
I urge you to reject it.
Yours truly,
Ted Nixon