Anvil Hill Mine Mod 1 & 2 - Early Work - Pre Road Completion
MODIFICATION 1 & 2- "EARLY WORKS"
After purchasing the Anvil Hill Mine from Centennial Coal Xstrata Mangoola Pty Ltd were not content to wait the extension of the Bengalla Link Road to Wybong Road, scheduled for July 2009, and pressed the Community to allow an early commencement to works on the mine site.
This modification and early works included extensive clearing of the wooded site for the coal handling plant, internal roads, quarry pits, electricity service line and use of Wybong Road West for heavy mine traffic and water supply pipeline, - overturning earlier conditions of consent on road use - and was opposed by the Community.
The modification also would destroy the swamp area at the headwater of Anvil Creek for all time and thus destroy the creek and its associated riparian lowland redgum forest. Also affected were large areas of dirius tricolor (an EPBC Act endangered plant species) and the re-emergence of Blakelys Red Gum-Yellow Box-Woodland and derived native grasslands (also EPBC listed) on the site. As in the original granting of consent Federal minister Peter Garret dismissed the environmental concerns to allow the works to proceed.
Consent was granted to the modification on 22 July 2008 by the NSW Government desperate to commence royalty collection to stabilise its deficit budgetary position.
The haste (Xstrata illegally hauling a Heavy Construction Load on Wybong Road West) associated with this mine, at all government levels, cost the life of Dave Patten.
Related Documents
- Modification 1 Approval
Ministers approval of mod 1 (99kb pdf file) - mod 1 append A EA Requirements
mod 1 append A EA Requirements (262kb pdf file) - mod 1 append B Environmental Procedures
mod 1 append B Environmental Procedures (416kb pdf file) - mod 1 append C Traffic Impact Analysis
mod 1 append C Traffic Impact Analysis (1.18MB pdf file) - mod 1 append D Noise impact Assessment
mod 1 append D Noise impact Assessment (1.52MB pdf file) - mod 1 append E Air Quality Assessment
mod 1 append E Air Quality Assessment (1.44MB pdf file) - mod 1 Main Environmental Assessment
mod 1 Main Environmental Assessment (2.70MB pdf file) - Traffic Management Plan Early Works Sept 2008
Traffic Management Plan Early Works Sept 2008 (10.48MB pdf file) - mod 1 pipeline app 1 EA Form
mod 1 pipeline app 1 EA Form (32kb pdf file) - mod 1 pipeline app 2 Ecological Assessment
mod 1 pipeline app 2 Ecological Assessment (3.14MB pdf file) - mod 1 pipeline app 3 Aboriginal Heritage Assessment
mod 1 pipeline app 3 Aboriginal Heritage Assessment (9.00MB pdf file) - mod 1 pipeline app 4 Historical Heritage Assessment
mod 1 pipeline app 4 Historical Heritage Assessment (5.54MB pdf file) - mod 1 pipeline app 5 Noise Assessment
mod 1 pipeline app 5 Noise Assessment (866kb pdf file) - mod 1 pipeline app 6 Traffic Assessment
mod 1 pipeline app 6 Traffic Assessment (2.11MB pdf file) - mod 1 pipeline Main EA
mod 1 pipeline Main EA (4.58MB pdf file) - Oral History Report Anvil Hill
Oral History Report Anvil Hill - a contentious and in part highly defamatory Xstrata produced document (10.03MB pdf file) - Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management Plan
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management Plan (17.81MB pdf file)
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