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.
Thanks for saving Bylong!
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Lee Coaldrake commented 2019-09-18 16:47:36 +1000Thankyou for a decision that considers the future of our children and grandchildren. -
anneca silver commented 2019-09-18 16:47:22 +1000Thank you for a wonderful decision and good news !! May you have set an example for other decision makers, for making a well informed and wise decision with a keen eye on the future.
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Max Dunn commented 2019-09-18 16:47:20 +1000Many thanks for your decision on mining in the Bylong Valley.
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Sheila Masters commented 2019-09-18 16:47:11 +1000Thank you so much for recognising the value of the area which would have been at risk had the Bylong coal mine proceeded. Your decision reflects community and experts’ concerns about stewardship of our land and water, which sadly are mostly ignored by decision makers.
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Louise O’Brien commented 2019-09-18 16:47:03 +1000Thank you so very much for rejecting the mine. This beautiful valley and it’s surrounds will remain the way it is with the precious groundwater and beautiful rich soils not being destroyed. Some common sense has prevailed! Just fantastic news!!
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Greg and Karen Douglas commented 2019-09-18 16:47:03 +1000Thank you for protecting the Bylong valley from inappropriate and destructive mining. -
alex whitlock commented 2019-09-18 16:46:55 +1000It is so exciting to see commen sense and intelligence finally prevailing. That’s great news.
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Kerry Brady commented 2019-09-18 16:46:46 +1000Thank you for preserving the valley.
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David Bibo commented 2019-09-18 16:46:40 +1000Thank you
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Cristine Cusbert commented 2019-09-18 16:45:48 +1000Huge thanks for listening !
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Sharron Neale commented 2019-09-18 16:45:43 +1000Thank you so much for making the right decision in stopping the Bylong Mine. I see the devastation that the mines are creating every time I drive on the Golden Highway – it is so sad,
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Don Radford commented 2019-09-18 16:45:41 +1000This is the best ews in times of despair in many other matters. An excellent decision for the future.
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Tom Ferrier commented 2019-09-18 16:45:38 +1000Thank you IPC and NSW Government for not allowing the opening of a new coal mine in the beautiful productive Bylong valley. I am particularly impressed that intergenerational equity was one basis for the decision.
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Robyn Coleman commented 2019-09-18 16:45:16 +1000Thankyou for upholding important values for the environment, our farmers and our Country -
Louis Zampogna commented 2019-09-18 16:45:05 +1000I thank the Commission on the wise decision.I hope that the same can be achieved in regards to Fracking by the States.
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Marion Glover commented 2019-09-18 16:44:37 +1000Thank you for this compassionate and wise decision.
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anneca silver commented 2019-09-18 16:44:30 +1000Thank you for a wonderful
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Ewen Kloas commented 2019-09-18 16:43:26 +1000Next step….STOP ADANI
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Jennifer Gursanscky commented 2019-09-18 16:42:36 +1000I would like to thank you for listening to the experts and the community to protect this precious area! It is great to feel some optimism for the future as a result of the decision that you have made. Our land and water are too valuable to squander for a short term gain! We must protect our country, indeed our planet, for future generations.
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Darshini Heaney commented 2019-09-18 16:42:28 +1000Thank you! Thank you as the mother of an eight year old boy, thank you as a GP, thank you as a fellow traveller on this precious Earth of ours.
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Jo Cleveland commented 2019-09-18 16:42:19 +1000Thanks for using profound common sense. Bravo!
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Ellen Hall commented 2019-09-18 16:42:18 +1000Thank you for the Right decision. Future generations will also Thank You!
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Elizabeth Reid commented 2019-09-18 16:41:50 +1000At last a thinking Government.
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Bob Evans commented 2019-09-18 16:40:43 +1000Dear Members of the Independent Planning Commission,
While expectation of gratitude from the community would not have played any part in your deliberations as to the merits of the Bylong coal mine, thank you for accepting the advice of the environmental and heritage experts and rejecting the application for a coalmine on land that included the Tarwin Park property and the Bylong Valley. -
Richard Bentley commented 2019-09-18 16:40:37 +1000This is fantastic news. Please talk about the many alternatives such as solar thermal, hydrogen etc. because those businesses who would have started mining should invest in the future.
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Denise Smith commented 2019-09-18 16:40:24 +1000A wise decision, thank you.
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Penny Maguire commented 2019-09-18 16:40:09 +1000Thank you! In crazy times it is refreshing to see common sense prevailing. We have seen other states push on with projects totally rejected by experts employed to establish viability and environmental impacts & wasting hundreds of millions in the process and needlessly displacing people off good farming land whose families worked that land for generations. Congratulations on a job well done. Can we have you assess some proposed projects in other states too?
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Gerard Harris commented 2019-09-18 16:39:44 +1000Wonderful and wise decision… Thank you for caring !!
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Jane Johnson commented 2019-09-18 16:39:06 +1000Huge thank you to the Independent Planning Commission and the NSW Government for not approving the Bylong coal mine.
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Carol Donvito commented 2019-09-18 16:38:48 +1000We are grateful for your decision to reject.