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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

  • Victoria 'Pinkie' Bennett
    signed 2021-09-14 20:23:35 +1000
    Stop now … Coal is on its way out …renewables al the way
  • Charlotte McCabe
    signed 2021-09-14 20:22:44 +1000
  • Ian Davies
    signed 2021-09-14 20:21:35 +1000
  • Raymond Kennedy
    signed 2021-09-14 20:20:37 +1000
  • Jacquelyn Johnson
    signed 2021-09-14 20:18:43 +1000
  • John Frois
    signed 2021-09-14 20:18:42 +1000
  • Don Radford
    signed 2021-09-14 20:18:13 +1000
    please restore this valley to the local farmers

    thank you
  • Kim Zegenhagen
    signed 2021-09-14 20:17:56 +1000
  • Susan Buick
    signed 2021-09-14 20:16:55 +1000
  • George Dion
    signed 2021-09-14 20:15:55 +1000
  • Adrian Deville
    signed 2021-09-14 20:11:25 +1000
  • Clare Strickland
    signed 2021-09-14 20:10:17 +1000
  • Paul McLisky
    signed 2021-09-14 20:10:14 +1000
  • Ernst Forster
    signed 2021-09-14 20:09:50 +1000
  • Sylvia Hale
    signed 2021-09-14 20:09:43 +1000
  • Ben Andrew Jackson
    signed 2021-09-14 20:09:02 +1000
  • Emmaline Middleton
    signed 2021-09-14 20:07:11 +1000
  • Annabelle Clucas
    signed 2021-09-14 20:07:05 +1000
  • Margaret Mitsikas
    signed 2021-09-14 20:06:54 +1000
    Good farming land must be used wisely for food production, to help feed the world’s increasing population.
  • Elaine Sherwood
    signed 2021-09-14 20:06:23 +1000
  • Allen Shrimpton
    signed 2021-09-14 20:04:35 +1000
  • Anne Forsythe
    signed 2021-09-14 20:03:48 +1000
  • Joan Crawley
    signed 2021-09-14 20:02:16 +1000
  • Linda Shaw
    signed 2021-09-14 20:01:18 +1000
  • Ian Pike
    signed 2021-09-14 20:00:16 +1000
  • Grant Ozolins
    signed 2021-09-14 19:59:45 +1000
  • Annette Cam
    signed 2021-09-14 19:59:34 +1000
  • Phillip Motbey
    signed 2021-09-14 19:59:23 +1000
  • Roslyn Hancock
    signed 2021-09-14 19:59:00 +1000
    The Bylong Valley is such a beautiful place. It needs to continue as a place of agriculture and community.
  • Marilyn Marsden
    signed 2021-09-14 19:58:53 +1000