Ms Margaret Kirton
Mining Industry Projects
Department of Planning and Infrastructure
GPO Box 39
SYDNEY NSW 2001

Dear Ms Kirton,

Please find attached the Colong Foundation's submission as an objected to the proposed 06_0021 MOD4.

Yours faithfully,

Keith Muir
Director

Please see attachment

As representative of the people of NSW and custodian of our land and its resources, I am ever hopeful that the health of our land and the use of it, will be a high priority in your Department. As a representative of bushwalkers, I trust that mining will not be approved indiscriminately without considerable research into its consequences and its real long term value.

See attached file.

See attached pdf

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- Centennial Coal must not be allowed consent for Modification 4 over an area where first workings have already been sought and approved last year in a restricted manner that did not preempt decisions on the major extension by the Planning Assessment Commission.

- The proposed first workings being applied for under Modifcation 4 set up longwall mining of panels 1001 and 1003 that are wider than those previously approved and will lead to more environmental damage in the sensitive Carne Creek catchment than was caused in the Wolgan River catchment.

- Centennial Coal is manipulating the planning system to gain a tactical benefit, namely to set the width of the longwalls as a precedent in the sensitive area proposed for future mining under SSD 5602 before the Planning Assessment Commission as considered the major extension proposal.
- See more at: http://www.colongwilderness.org.au/stop-centennial-coals-dodgy-mine-modification#sthash.POxxZttg.dpuf