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Coal - human greed wantonly destroying the atmosphere, waters and earth needed to sustain life. 

"And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name,  small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth."  Rev 11: 18 

A growing population cannot derive food or drink from land or waters ruined by Open Cut Coal Mining, Oil/Coal Seam Gas Extraction, Gassification or Carbon Capture & Storage.

Nor can they safely breathe the atmospheric soup of carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, sulphur, fine silica dusts, mercury, lead, aromatic polycarbons etc etc etc

The COAL INDUSTRY is the INDUSTRY OF DEATH.  

EPA NSW Pollution Line

Ph 131 555  Ring Now !

Xstrata-Mangoola

02 6549 5500 (Mangoola Mine)  Ring Now!
1800 014 339 (after hrs) 

20/08/10 In a further act of collusion with Mangoola Coal Muswellbrook Shire Council has again bypassed its own Environment Committee by failing to recall the committee to assess the Adequacy of the Environmental Assessment for the 500Kv electricity line relocation and consequent substantial mine changes. 

The new mine plan will result in a massive intensification of extraction from 200,000 tonnes in 2012 to 10.5 million tonnes.  For the mine plan to succeed the 500Kv line must be relocated, defacing the most significant geological feature (Wallaby Rocks) and the rural visage of the Wybong Valley for all time and in direct contravention of the Muswellbrook Shire Local Environment Plan and Development Control Plan.

This latest bypassing of the community follows on and completes a history of collusion-in-secret:

Oct 2006 Mine proposal approved by MSC immediately prior to and prejudicing the Independent Hearing Panel of the NSW Dept of Planning into the proposal.  Cr Jennifer Lecky breached MSC's Code of Conduct by seconding the approval motion regardless of a direct conflict of interest (owner of land in the acquisition zone, later sold to Xstrata for $800,000 being $500,000 more than amounts paid for adjoining properties).  MSC refused to uphold its own Code of Conduct and investigate let alone censure this disgraceful conduct despite direction to do so from the NSW Dept of Local Government.

Compounding the breach and fraudulently misrepresenting the facts, MSC later declared that Cr Lecky had made known her conflict of interest to the Council meeting, stood aside and taken no part in the decision of Council - despite the factual public record and journalists and members of the public present publicly recording Cr Lecky's  abhorrent conduct at the meeting, seconding the approval motion.

Nov 2009 Mine Construction approved by MSC secretly and in direct collusion with, and on the behest of Xstrata, knowingly in breach of the Dept of Planning Conditions of Consent requiring the completion of essential access roadworks, and knowingly exceeding its power to do so, creating the circumstance leading to the violent decapitation death of an innocent road user by an Xstrata wide construction load illegally accessing the site, on the strength of MSC's illegal 'approval', using a minor local road.  The NSW Dept of Planning refused to intervene, stating that MSC had granted approval despite MSC having no power to do so.   The death and all the circumstances contributing remain to be investigated and finally determined by the Coroner.

Jan 2010 MSC bypassed its own Environment Committee by deliberately failing to recall the committee to assess the Adequacy of the Draft Environmental Assessment for the 500Kv electricity line relocation and consequent NEW MINE PLAN.  Instead, secretly responding to the Dept of Planning without mention of direct contravention of the MSC Local Environment Plan and MSC Development Control Plan by Xstrata's New Mine plan.

August 2010 MSC contemptuously repeats the Jan 2010 collusion unashamedly and secretly bypassing the Environment Committee and refusing to respond to questions from the community regarding reasons why the specialist MSC Environment Committee was bypassed.

25 August 2010 Xstrata Mangoola website disappears from the internet as Xstrata Mangoola with MSC approval prepare to intensively haul loads up to 8m width on the deteriorating Wybong Road disrupting local traffic without any notice as to haulage times.

These cowboy organisations, Xstrata Mangoola and Muswellbrook Shire Council are beneath contempt.  Their  collusion-in-secret to the benefit of Xstrata Mangoola and detriment of the Wybong Residents and Ratepayers borders on the criminal as does their collective intent.

The New Xstrata Mangoola Mine will magnify the intensivity of the former Anvil Hill Mine by increasing the extraction rate Yrs 1-8 from 200,000 tonnes pa to 10.5 milion tonnes pa from 2012.

Wybong Action Group identifies Muswellbrook Shire Council of engaging in improper collusion with Xstrata Mangoola P/L  via the agency of Cr Lecky, Manager and MSC Dept of Environmet Services and their apologist Mayor.

"The aggregate health cost burden in Australia of power station emissions from coal-fired power stations, with the mid-range estimate of $13.2/MWh and an annual coal-fired output of 197TWh, is therefore approximately $2.6 billion.33 The health cost burden from coal-fired power stations in NSW for 2007-08 was $947.5 million.34 The total externality cost from coal-fired power stations in NSW for 2007-08 was approximately $3 billion (Added - far exceeding the royalty extracted by the NSW Government) .35 The total externality cost from coal-fired power stations in Australia for 2007-08 was approximately $8.3 billion.36  is located at http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/publications.nsf/key/MiningandtheEconomy/$File/Mining+and+the+economy+e-brief+8+2010.pdf

 11/08/10 Hunter Valley Protection Alliance 

presents (in Singleton)

an advance screening of the documentary

"GASLAND" 

 

"GASLAND" shows the downsides of unrestricted gas mining for ordinary people who are unlucky to live over unconventional gas deposits (such as those underlying Wybong Creek & Wollombi Brook, from Murrays Run to Mururrundi and from Hexham to Taree and along the Eastern Escarpment foothills of the Dividing Range.)  

4/08/10  Public Forum 4 Aug 6-30pm Newcastle City Hall

20/07/10 The Tasmanian Government operates a statewide Air Quality Monitoring and Measurement System reading BOTH PM10 and PM2.5 from 22+ stations.  

The NSW Government REFUSES to install capability to measure PM2.5 at the 14 Air Quality Monitoring Sites to be established in the Mid Hunter . 

There are als no monitors to be sited in the arc from Jerrys Plains to Muswellbrook South ie within the predominant mine and power station plume - home to many thousands.    NSW is a criminal farce.

Particulate Matter  Metering Equipment.

Independent Road Safety Audit - Wybong Road Upgrade (incl. Addendum)  - added 18/7/2010

Parliamentary Report on (Coal) Mining and the Economy listing External Costs eg Human Health at 8.3 billion pa nationwide for which the product is not charged.

Native Forests Petition This is a once in a generation opportunity to protect our native forests. But to do that we have to let the forestry industry and Australian governments at all levels know we are serious about reform.

Liverpool Plains Petition To:  the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled ....

A billion in perspective:

A.  A billion+ seconds ago it was 1959.
B.  A billion+ minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C.  A billion+ hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D.  A billion+ days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion+ dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.    [Ross Greenwood of Money News]

17 June, 5pm, MSC Environment Committee Briefing by Xstrata & Bengalla  Mining Companies. 

Info: Bengalla minor modification to Wontana Extension

Xstrata: ETL remains on original relocation route, Claim no traffic increase, claim no noise increase, cliam no dust increase.  The usual LIES, HALF TRUTHS, FALSE, MISLEADING & DECEPTIVE CONDUCT.

NEWS (Wybong)
NEWS (Coal Communities)
NEWS (Mangoola) incl. Feb 2010 Fly Over of Anvil Hill Mine
NEWS (National-Global)

NSW Government Seeks To Defeat The Justice inherent in The Supreme Court "Caroona Decision" On Behalf Of BHP - by Legislation

NSW Government Seizes Camberwell Common - On Behalf Of Ashton Mining

Botai Consortium Improperly Claim Award of Ridgelands Coal Exploration Lease 

Wybong - Castlerock - Ridgelands Road Intersections II (Design) 

 

The factories of Eco-Extermination and Bio-Extinction that directly threaten Wybong and all of us:

Current Affairs 

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 Sharyn Munro

Spend some time with an accomplished Australian, Craftsman WordSmith, renowned Author and Friend of The Wybong. 

Be refreshed, informed, entertained and invigorated by a wander through the windows of the many worlds of Sharyn Munro - you'll be pleased that you did.

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The Members Area contains Legal Advice for the community when dealing with Coal & Gas Exploration Companies.  It has been updated in August 2009 with the latest NSW Farmers Association Advice on Negotiating Access Agreements and other important information.  This Advice must be read in conjunction The Caroona Decision 2010 .

The Caroona Decision 2010 effectively invalidates the mining industry process of selectively garnering individual Access Ageements in favour of  the now correctly defined Legislated Process of Collective Agreement, Arbitration and non-extinguishable Landholder Rights.

It hasn't taken long for the filthy, puppet,  lacky, pig, dog scum of the NSW ALP Government to attempt to pervert the course of justice attempt to pervert the course of justice enunciated in the Caroona Decision

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