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KEPCO Open Letter

Can you help us get the ear of the KEPCO CEO? We're calling on him to sell the land back for agriculture so our community can rebuild. Will you join us?

Phill Kennedy, President, Bylong Valley Protection Alliance


Dear Cheong Seung-il, CEO, KEPCO,

Today the NSW Court of Appeal ruled against KEPCO on appeal which means that the proposed Bylong coal project cannot proceed.

We, the undersigned, are calling on you to respond by relinquishing the exploration lease for the project and selling the land back to agricultural interests. We can see no valid basis for KEPCO to continue with the project. 

The Bylong proposal is beset by severe environmental, social and economic risks. There is fierce and widespread opposition to the project in Australia and both of KEPCO’s legal challenges have failed.

It is also a legacy project planned and conceived many years ago that now has no place given the energy transformation that is underway. 

South Korea’s new electricity plan - finalised in December 2020 - will see thermal coal consumption drop by almost 19 million tonnes per annum by 2030.  The Bylong coal project is inconsistent with this Green New Deal that is underway.

We note that KEPCO has advised the Korean Government that they have recently had an offer for purchase of the land from agricultural interests.

In order to avoid sinking yet more large sums of money into a stranded asset that will besmirch KEPCO’s reputation, we encourage you to relinquish the exploration lease and enable the land to be returned to agriculture and nature conservation.

Regenerative agriculture and carbon farming at Bylong would provide a global climate benefit that would be a credit to KEPCO.

Please act now to relinquish the exploration lease and enable the local community to rebuild around a new, clean future.

Will you sign?


Showing 30 reactions

  • M Martin
    signed 2021-09-15 10:55:10 +1000
    Please get this precious land back to well run agriculture
  • Annika Faber
    signed 2021-09-15 10:51:29 +1000
  • Lola Davidson
    signed 2021-09-15 10:50:26 +1000
  • Robyn Hooper
    signed 2021-09-15 10:49:30 +1000
  • Clare Shrimpton
    signed 2021-09-15 10:48:16 +1000
    The stunning Bylong Valley desrves to survive after KEPCO just because it is there.
  • Tom Cowan
    signed 2021-09-15 10:45:47 +1000
    Dear KEPCO,

    Do the right thing.
  • Craig Ling
    signed 2021-09-15 10:45:38 +1000
    We cannot relinquish prime agricultural land for coal mines in the 21st century.


    Climate emergency.
  • David Norris
    signed 2021-09-15 10:42:37 +1000
    Please relinquish the exploration lease at Bylong and sell the land back to Australian farmers for regenerative agriculture and carbon farming and or a solar farm.
  • Lisa Colley
    signed 2021-09-15 10:39:35 +1000
  • Sue Flowers
    signed 2021-09-15 10:38:55 +1000
  • John Bartholomew
    signed 2021-09-15 10:38:52 +1000
    Australia is experiencing a land price boom that cannot last long. Now is the best time to sell, before the inevitable price crash.
  • Miranda Mills
    signed 2021-09-15 10:38:45 +1000
  • Jennifer Jungheim
    signed 2021-09-15 10:37:14 +1000
  • Colin Wright
    signed 2021-09-15 10:36:04 +1000
  • Michael West
    signed 2021-09-15 10:30:27 +1000
  • Leo Bunyan
    signed 2021-09-15 10:28:27 +1000
  • Margaret Bradstock
    signed 2021-09-15 10:28:07 +1000
  • Dale Smalley
    signed 2021-09-15 10:26:33 +1000
  • Sandy Thompson
    signed 2021-09-15 10:24:41 +1000
  • Heather Cooke
    signed 2021-09-15 10:24:01 +1000
  • Victoria Rhoades
    signed 2021-09-15 10:23:52 +1000
  • Brenda Debenham
    signed 2021-09-15 10:18:29 +1000
    I congratulate your forward thinking on ‘energy’.

    “We will exert all-out efforts to revive KEPCO as the ’world’s best energy platform company that leads the electricity industry ecosystem.”


    출처 : Korea IT Times(http://www.koreaittimes.com)
  • Palitja Moore
    signed 2021-09-15 10:14:24 +1000
  • Wendy Baker
    signed 2021-09-15 10:13:07 +1000
    Time to rebuild a community. Releasing land will help.
  • Anja Van Eeuwen
    signed 2021-09-15 10:11:28 +1000
    We need more agricultural land or forests – surely everyone knows that now !
  • Clayton Hairs
    signed 2021-09-15 10:08:47 +1000
  • Colleen South
    signed 2021-09-15 10:06:30 +1000
  • Dereka Ogden
    signed 2021-09-15 10:03:11 +1000
  • Michael Couch
    signed 2021-09-15 10:02:13 +1000
  • John Kelly
    signed 2021-09-15 09:57:34 +1000