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Southern Highlands residents voice concern to NSW Government – Nine News
Three weeks after a meeting on the proposed development of Sutton Forrest sand quarry was cancelled, Southern Highlands residents have regrouped to voice their concerns.
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NSW Government reschedules public meeting over a sand quarry after being forced to cancel – ABC Illawarra
Nick Rheinberger from ABC Illawarra interviews Sutton Forest resident and member of Save Our Sands Alliance Bernadette Lawlor ahead of the public meeting with the Department of Planning and Environment on Tuesday, 31 July 2018.
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Mining in rural communities – Doctors for the Environment
Many regional communities in NSW are affected by mining, which is a very distant and abstract concept to people in urban areas. In Sydney, people don’t engage with the health and environmental issues mining creates – they don’t think it affects them. But what happens when Government approves a mine that does affect Sydney, in…
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NSW Planning & Environment meeting – Media Alert
The NSW Government Department of Planning & Environment have rescheduled the meeting for Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at Moss Vale Services Club between 6-8pm. Please save the date and attend this meeting to have your objection to this sand mine heard. Keep sending your objection and submissions to May Patterson – may.patterson@planning.nsw.gov.au.
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Sutton Forest sand mine proposal’s ‘inadequate’ EIS slammed by agencies – Illawarra Mercury
Southern Highlands residents facing the prospect of an coal mine underneath Sutton Forest are now concerned about the impact of a proposed sand mine just a few kilometres away. A proposal has been lodged with the NSW Major Projects process by a company called Sutton Forest Quarries, to extract 21 million tonnes of sandstone during…
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NSW Government forced to cancel public meeting on a controversial mega-quarry in the Southern Highlands – WIN News
WIN News Illawarra reports that a meeting held on Tuesday, 10 July 2018, to discuss a controversial mega-quarry proposal on the Southern Highlands, was cancelled when the venue proved too small for the number of residents wanting to have their say.
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Impact on ground and surface water could pollute Sydney’s water supply – ABC Illawarra
Host, Lindsay McDougall, says there will be a meeting between the Department of Planning and Environment and Southern Highlands community members tonight at Sutton Forest Village Hall to hear concerns about the proposed sand quarry. Peter Martin, President – Coal Free Southern Highlands, will attend the meeting tonight to also give assistance to another group…
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Sutton Forest Quarries public presentation – Media Alert
Wingecarribee Shire Council wishes to advise that a public presentation by Sutton Forest Quarries Pty Ltd. will precede the upcoming ordinary meeting of council on Wednesday, 11 July 2018. Councillors have invited representatives for Sutton Forest Quarries Pty Ltd. to provide a presentation on their plans to establish a sand quarry on the Hume Highway, near…
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Mining accelerating salinity levels – Sydney Morning Herald
The Berejiklian government ignored warnings by an auditor for two years that it in needed to address rising salinity at Sydney’s main reservoir. As Fairfax Media reported last year, the triennial audit of Sydney’s water drinking catchment found salinity levels at Lake Burragorang had risen over a 20-year trend, and were twice the level of other catchments. Coal mining,…
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NSW Department of Planning & Environment meeting – Media Alert
The NSW Government Department of Planning & Environment will be holding a meeting on Tuesday, 10 July 2018 at Sutton Forest Village Hall between 6-8pm. Please save the date and attend this meeting to have your objection to this sand mine heard. Keep sending your objection and submissions to May Patterson – may.patterson@planning.nsw.gov.au.
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