Caroona Coal Action Group

Caroona Coal Action Group (CCAG) represents a country community concerned that subsidence longwall mining will damage the underground aquifers, the life blood of the food and fibre production, on the world class Liverpool Plains, NSW.

CCAG believe there is an absolute failure of planning process in NSW. Since Part 3A of the Planning Act was introduced, many of the proper, independent checks and balances for mining have been removed in favour of unquestioned development and a disregard for people’s property and democratic rights. CCAG believes the NSW State government is compromised in this matter by its addiction to mining royalties and the excessive sums paid to it for exploration licences.

CCAG are pressing for an immediate moratorium on any kind of resource exploration on the Liverpool Plains so that an independent, catchment-wide water study can be performed to understand the interconnections and intricacies of the aquifers beneath these prime agricultural rich soil plains. 

CCAG also wishes to highlight the:-

• fallacy of clean coal
  
• increased health risks faced by coal communities
  
• latest government reports on subsidence longwall mining damage – Southern coalfields report , which follows the leaked DECC report
  
• full impact of coal-fired power stations (not just their climate changing effect) and that one was proposed quietly for Caroona
• increase in earthquake activity produced by mining (we live on the Hunter Mooki Fault line, the same one which moved in the fatal Newcastle earthquake)
• effect of low frequency noise on mining communities
  
• Quiet Deceiver and other exposés of BHP’s environmental record and it’s F for effort as shown by RiversSOS .

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We thank you for your interest and support.