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Coal - 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

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

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

31/3/12 An Independent Access Agreement uploaded here shortly. To get the best from it you need to read through most of the Handbook below.

NSW Minerals Council Exploration Handbook 2010 - This is a MUST-READ, especially C hapter 3 - Dealing with Landholders etc and Ch 5 on.. Pretty dry going mostly,, it gives off what people some reasonable conditions to be included, pro-forma, documentation etc

28/2/12 Minerals Council Mining Dialogue Rehabilitation in the Hunter. Ted Finnie noted, as did myself, Graham Brown, the group and company, the complete absence of insect life and bird life - in an instance of 15 year old mixed eucalypt rehabilitation.

Twenty minutes later, atop Mt Arthur a lone fully grown wedge tailed eagle hovered, transfixed, over a decimated landscape. NO habitat, instead a minefield of unpredictable emissions of undetectable toxic gases and spurts of the deadly yellow-brown plumes that kill from out of sight....

Either way.

22/2/12 Wybong Action Group Objection-to-Grant-of-Exploration-Licence-for-Ridgelands-ELA-4244

2/2012 Recent Submissions

WAG Submission to Muswellbrook Shire Strategic Land Use Plan

WAG Submission on Orica Rosemount

Meetings at Bylong, Broke, Singleton, Maitland, Baerami, Bunnan, Scone, Muswellbrook, Wybong, Newcastle

08/10/11 Ethnic Cleansing ?

Amnesty International Report Traditional Indigenous communities abandoned by government in Australia

Executive Summary and Report Document

9/9/2011 Thomas Mitchell Drive

7/9/2011 CSG Inquiry Submission

6/9/2011 Save Bunnan Combined Submission

GAS PROJECTS & PIPELINES

Join tens of thousands of others and call, email or ring>

Joe Barrett, Senior Project Facilitator, CNC Project Management For Eastern Star Gas

Mobile 0428 811 633 Phone 07 5471 3111

e-mail: joeb@cncprojects.com.au

Joe is waiting (24/7) for your call!

Freedom of Information request reveals that Ridgelands ELA was put out to tender AT THE WHIM of Disgraced former ALP Minister Ian MacDonald

Poor Example Access of an Agreement (so we are told)

FREE EDO Workshop: Coal Seam Gas Mining Law in NSW - Baerami Saturday 20 August 2011 10:30am to 3:30pm

Venue : Baerami Hall, Bylong Valley Way , Baerami

Need Help Call EDO 9262 6989 or email

27/7/11 Warning Letter Sent to Mangoola Mine

25/7/11 Wybong Action Group has adopted a neutral to negative opinion in relation to the taxation of Carbon. We believe that the package to the extent currently understood fails to meet key social objectives such as (discussed below) the full cost recovery of the External Costs of Coal, full cost provision for Environmental Restoration including Surface & Groundwaters, Reduction in Arability, provision for Intergenerational Equity Function and Biodiversity loss.

Positive aspects of the package relate to reduction in diesel fuel excise rebate applicable to mining purposes (preference would have full removal), raising of tax threshold, compensation to low income earners, welfare benificiaries (would have preferred realignment upward of unemployment benefit and rental assistance), reduction in company tax for non-mining related businesses and spending on renewable energy.

Redundant or negative aspects are continuance of mining specific exemptions from land, air and water management legislation, continuing subsidies in the form of public monies expended on infrastructure provision, maintenance and upgrade to the benefit mining eg ARTC works & exclusion of passenger services and continued predominance of mining over agriculture and biodiversity.

1/7/11 Minerals Council Workshop They want to know what to do to shut you up short of buy you out. Your whinging is affecting their corporate image.

The WAG position is that we, the community, are underwriting the prosperity of these companies and the industrial world by a process wherein we are materially diminished and we demand just compensation for all so affected and full recognition of the rights afforded them equally

18/6/2011 Xstrata Mungruella issued a Formal Warning by Compliance Officers for breaching conditions of consent during the evenings of the previous week and at other night times by wilfully operating on top of the overburden dump subjecting residents to outrageous levels of noise and lighting impact.

DOP indicate an additional noise monitoring station will be installed by Mungruella near the former Duggan property to service the Brogheda area and assist noise containment. This comes after continual request and noise complaints made by WAG and residents over previous months following commencement of operations.

13/6/2011 The Legislative Changes to major Projects Assessment System

24/5/11 GAS LEAK at BUNNAN IGNITES!

See The Bunnan Page for details

Coming Check out the "Bunnan Registry"

7/5/11 Hotting Up at Bunnan - See the Bunnan Page for details

11/5/11 Mayor Martin Rush secures at least $12 million in compensation commitments from Mount Arthur, Mount Pleasant and Bengalla mines. Muswellbrook Council will receive $1.4 million a year for community infrastructure and $465,000 a year for roads for the life of the mines.

Hopefully this will help contain the rates on rural residential land values artificially inflated by nearby mine purchases - particularly when landowners cannot realise the valuations in open market sales as there is no demand for mine affacted properties and only one buyer - the mines - who will only purchase property mandated by their consent - leaving hundreds of rural landowners with property they cannot sell, on which they connot generate a living and on which they must pay artifically inflated rates and land taxes.

8/7/11 Ian Dunlop - former petroleum engineer/Shell Executive, now deputy convener of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, question ran for three minutes: ''The temperature increase we've seen so far is about 0.8 degrees Celsius. We've already seen a clear trend in extreme weather events related to just that increase. We probably have locked in already a temperature increase of around 2.4 degrees. If we were to follow the path that you're suggesting in terms of continued fossil fuel usage to 2030, the likely outcome will be a temperature increase somewhere between 4 and 6 degrees. That probably means world population drops to a carrying capacity of somewhere around a billion people (you can argue 1 to 2 billion).

18/4/11 Coal and Gas Scoping Submission Wybong Action Group

WAG welcomes the SAVE BUNNAN COMMITTEE formed 16/3/11 to the war against coal and the fight to save The Wybong and Wybong Creek.

31/3/11 Another front has opened as Nathan Tinkler's 'Boardwalk Resources' commences the Yarrawa Project with Ferndale Coal. At a recent meeting in Denman the project partners left the 200+ residents in no doubt that it was all about money and only about money.

Need more ? Prepare for the Coal Seam Gas Pipeline to rip your back paddock apart with an up to 80m wide easement and eternal right of entry anytime that may include turning your property in exploration Swiss Cheese as they chase gas extraction from Narrabri to Newcastle via Coonabarabran-Coolah-Denman and Elderslie.

26 March 2011 The people of NSW prepare for LIBERATION from the NSW ALP Right

Remember, 1 in 15 Upper Hunter Children autistic - Japan 1 in 15,000, in USA 1 in evey 1000, 1 in 6 Upper Hunter Children suffer lung impairments.

[The Mining Industry prefers however to spend spent $22 million over 3 weeks to buy Australian democracy, depose a Prime Minister and gain a $60 billion return over 10 years. A good return on investment if you can get it.]

Dave Patten Inquest to commence 9:30am 1 March 2011 at Muswellbrook Court House.

Update: Held in Secret. Community and Family excluded. Findings Unknown

Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. Ezekiel 36:18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:

> WAG Mangoola Modification & 500Kv ETL Relocation Submission

> WAG Mangoola Modification & 500Kv ETL Relocation Further Submission

> MSC Modification 4 Submission

Thankyou to everyone who lodged a submission.

Mine Related Complaints

1 Mangoola Mine Ph 02 6549 5500 Ring Now!

1800 014 339 (after hrs)

2 Dept of Planning Compliance Officers - Singleton

Ph 02 6575 3405

Suite 14, Level 1, 1 Civic Avenue, Singleton NSW 2330

3 Environment Protection Authority Ph 131 555

"Fugitive emissions from coal mines and oil and gas projects, as well as direct fuel combustion emissions from LNG projects, account for almost half of the growth in Australia's total emissions from 2010 to 2020," - Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 2010, Australias emissions projections 2010, DCCEE, Canberra, ACT, p7.

"Fossil fuel incentives and subsidies will cost about $12.2 billion this financial year" - ACF March 2011

Online Petition to protect Margaret River, WA from Open Cut Mining

Mangoola [Modification 4] A New Mine Plan

<< Climate Camp 2010 - Action Video's and OnSite Reports >>

Personal Account: Sharyn Munro

"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 advance screening of "GASLAND" - the downsides of unrestricted gas mining for ordinary people.

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. [Update Feb 2011 - a PM10 monitor will now be located at Wybong at a site to be announced. It is expected by the community that this site will be upgraded to PM2.5 in the future to account for the emission particles most predominamntly suspended in the atmosphere in the Wybong Valley].

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 ....

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

The Threat to Wybong

Xstrata Mangoola MLA (formerly Anvil Hill) 2006
Ridgelands Coal ELA 2008
Wybong Carbon Storage and Sequestration Injection Site 2006
Castlerock ELA (now Rose Hill Coal ALA) 1970's?
Mt Pleasant
Yarrawa ELA (now Ferndale Coal) 2010
Spur Hill ELA 2010
PEL 4 Petroleum Exploration Lease (Coal Seam Methane) 1940's?
Bayswater B Power Station

The Main Players

VIDEO 12/4/10: "A Dirty Business" How the ALP NSW Government puts the royalties it gets from power stations and coal mining ahead of the health of the people of the Upper Hunter Valley. (Website Includes Special Extended Interviews and Forum not shown on TV)
VIDEO 30/3/10: 7:30 Report Thoroughbreds and Coal Battle it Out
AUDIO 28/3/10: Coal. The Hunters new asbestos Interview as recorded via ABC
AUDIO 22/3/10: Nilli Williams - We will mine everywhere & anywhere (20 mins) Interview as recorded by 2BL Sydney, featuing Fi Simpson (Agriculture) & Nikki Williams (Coalmonger)

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