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Thanks for saving Bylong!


Please write a very short message, in your own words, to the Independent Planning Commission and the NSW Government for rejecting the risky Bylong coal mine.  Congratulate them for listening to the experts and protecting this incredible area for its rich soils, precious groundwater and unique heritage values. This means the historic Tarwyn Park property, the home of Natural Sequence Farming, will not be mined.

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  • Bobby Rosales
    commented 2019-09-27 09:30:37 +1000
    THANK YOU VERY MUCH for Saving Bylong and the Natural Environmant.
  • Rienie Peak
    commented 2019-09-27 08:15:42 +1000
    Thank you so much for standing with us and protecting our environment
  • Mary Head
    commented 2019-09-27 03:29:59 +1000
    Thanks for saving bylong
  • Norman Looker
    commented 2019-09-26 21:32:56 +1000
    Thanks for your positive decision regarding the halting of The proposed Bylong Coal mine. Commonsense prevailed.
  • Des Alexander
    commented 2019-09-26 16:39:27 +1000
    Many thanks and congratulations for making the right decision for the community, the world and future generations based on the advice from experts. If only more governments followed your example.
  • Cheryl Peiffer
    commented 2019-09-26 13:13:33 +1000
    Thanks for making a great decision and saving another important farming area from having its groundwater stolen and precious land destroyed.
  • Melanie Beach-Ross
    commented 2019-09-26 08:52:08 +1000
    Great work, the world will benefit from this decision.

    A beautiful area can be appreciated by those to come.

    Thankyou
  • Elizabeth Hewson
    commented 2019-09-26 08:45:53 +1000
    Many thanks and congratulations for making the right decision for the community, the world and future generations based on the advice from experts. If only more governments followed your example.
  • Carolyn Budden
    commented 2019-09-25 18:57:38 +1000
    Congratulations on your decision not to approve coal mining in the environmentally significant site of Bylong Valley. We thank you for listening and duly considering environmental and heritage arguments and making a decision in the interests of future generations.

    Carolyn and Rick Budden

    Bolton Point NSW
  • Katherine Towndrow
    commented 2019-09-25 17:15:12 +1000
    Good to know that farmers can win over mining. Food and environment is so much more important.
  • Gail Hammond
    commented 2019-09-25 14:36:47 +1000
    Thank you so much for your decision. It gives one a glimmer of hope in the process when such a decision is made, not from greed & influence, but from being informed and sanely thinking the situation through. Thank you for saving our water, land and community, for the good of all. Well done!
  • Rae O'Brien
    commented 2019-09-25 13:37:51 +1000
    Thank you – a decision based on science and the detrimental cost to our future generations. Great to see decisions not been based on short term profits.
  • Vicki Swinbank
    commented 2019-09-25 12:53:28 +1000
    This is wonderful news – such a relief and in stark contrast to so much bad news re fossil fuels and climate change.
  • Kevin Sonnack
    commented 2019-09-25 12:38:17 +1000
    Thank you for saving Bylong from polluting coal miners, we need as many preserved natural areas as possible going into the future.
  • Judith Smith
    commented 2019-09-25 12:03:03 +1000
    Thanks you a thousand times! Its so good to have some good news for a change, the Bylong Valley is far too precious to lose.
  • Lyn Bayfield
    commented 2019-09-25 08:48:57 +1000
    Thankyou; I only wish all of our govt people could also see the future as you have. Thankyou.
  • talitha shelley
    commented 2019-09-25 07:32:29 +1000
    THANK YOU!! this is a GREAT step towards ecological integrity, empowerment for the peaceful, and the life-blood of this land.
  • Adrian Holbeck
    commented 2019-09-25 05:32:09 +1000
    Thank you!
  • Elisabeth Dark
    commented 2019-09-25 01:32:29 +1000
    Thank you for rejecting coal mining in the Bylong Valley. The mine would have destroyed the valley forever, in exchange for short-term economic gain.
  • Jacqueline O'Brien
    commented 2019-09-25 00:12:08 +1000
    Thank you so much for looking after the land and environment.
  • amy brown
    commented 2019-09-24 21:23:45 +1000
    Thank you!!
  • Richard Grant
    commented 2019-09-24 20:18:05 +1000
    To the Independent Planning Commission;

    Tears well up in my eyes at the incredible news of the rejection of the Bylong Coal Mine. This beautiful valley and our water and farming land are safe for now. Thank you for making the right choice. NO NEW COAL MINES!
  • Beverley Inshaw
    commented 2019-09-24 16:08:04 +1000
    Thankyou so much for saving the Bylong Valley from a coal mine. It is great that you finally listened to environmental experts to protect the wonderful heritage values and precious groundwater.
  • Melissa Morris
    commented 2019-09-24 12:05:17 +1000
    I think this decision is glorious, please let it be one that is not retracted.Thankyou.
  • Susan Barling
    commented 2019-09-24 11:56:27 +1000
    Fantastic decision !!

    Thank you for putting the environment above economic development.
  • Susan Barling
    commented 2019-09-24 11:56:26 +1000
    Fantastic decision !!

    Thank you for putting the environment above economic development.
  • Stephen Spencer
    commented 2019-09-24 11:19:21 +1000
    Thanks for saving the Bylong valley! I congratulate you for listening to the experts and protecting this incredible area for its rich soils, precious groundwater and unique heritage values.
  • Alan Wilson
    commented 2019-09-24 11:16:56 +1000
    Thanks!
  • Chris Pavich
    commented 2019-09-24 11:01:49 +1000
    As a Mid-Western Regional Council ratepayer and resident, and a long-term worker in the Bylong Valley environs and a friend of many of the remaining farmers remaining there, I strongly commend the IPC for its historic and deeply considered independent conclusion regarding disallowing the KEPCO Bylong Valley mining licence proposal. Many generations hereafter will benefit from and appreciate your decision.
  • Pamela Frith
    commented 2019-09-24 10:57:08 +1000
    Thanks at last future thinking