The Independent Planing Competition is bravely going where other states don’t dare. Other states are just caving in to big mining.

I congratulate the NSW government for siding with the people of NSW by disallowing the Bylong coal mine to go ahead. You have given a ray of hope to the majority of Australians who want out beautiful country protected from the degradation this type of mining causes.

Bravo! Thank you for being honest and brave and right and protecting our precious environment. Keep it up! Please!

Thank you for putting people, culture, climate and environment before profit. Thank you for being on the right side of history.

Congratulations on a great decision regarding Bylong. The valley is beautiful and should never have faced despoliation. Further, it is high time to begin the transition from coal as our fuel source. Our planet deserves it.

Thanks for having the courage to choose people over profit. Many thanks.

Our most important resources are clean air, water and environment. Insightful investors putting funds into smart technologies which produce clean water and food. (Netherlands is the second biggest exporter of food in the world after USA despite being such a small country).


The future of investment will be smart energy solutions producing energy where it is used in a zero waste economy. Biodigestors have been installed in farms to produce methane(fracking gas, which can be used to heat water and power generators) and liquid fertilizer from effluent and food waste. These could also be installed in office buildings, hospitals, nursing homes, apartment blocks, etc. Turby wind turbines on the tops of buildings. Wind turbines between lanes on motorways. Designing buildings to be energy efficient and sustainable. These technologies will reduce costly infrastructure and transport miles, not to mention establishment costs.


Thankyou for saving Bylong and making a wise choice for the future of Bylong and Australia.

Thank you for making this important decision!

Thanks for making such a good decision based on sound, intelligent and envionmentally appropriate reason. Your protections will hopefully serve as a model for other similar regions faced with the same threats. Well done.

THANK YOU.. YOU HAVE MADE THE RIGHT DECISION.

Thank you so much!

This is truly incredible news. Well done to all those involved in making such a considered and welcome decision for all Australians. We recently took a road trip through this beautiful valley. We were dismayed by the destruction of the landscape by mining before entering the valley and hoped that it would not extend. Well done!!

Thank you for listening to community members, other advocates including scientists, in making this just and ‘common sense’ decision.

Thank goodness – someone who understands, it about future generations too.

An excellent, long term decision to save the Bylong Valley. Future generations will applaud your wisdom. Congratulations.

Thank you very much rejecting the Bylong mine proposal. You have listened to the views of experts and protected this area for the future. I hope there will be more decisions made such as this in the future.

Thank you for rejecting the proposed coal mine in the beautiful Bylong Valley.It will be a great relief for the local farmers that their farms and precious groundwater will be protected in the future.

You’ve made a sensible decision. Thank you.

Thank You for saving the beautiful Bylong Valley.

Thankyou for saving a precious resource – natural environment and agricultural land – for future generations.

Thank you for your decision, hopefully this will be supported in other states and Australia will be kept to support climate change and nature. Not ruined by greedy commercial interests.

Again thank you, keep up the good work

. Regards Gayle, nurse, Victoria

Thank you, Commissioner, for your far-sighted decision to see beyond any short term gain, & consider the kind of Australia we wish to hand to the future.

Thank you so much for rejecting the Bylong coal mine! This is a much needed outcome not only to protect important agricultural land but also protect our Country and planet from Climate Change! It is such a relief to see that finally the future is starting to matter and that short term profits for a very small minority are being put well after the protection of our future!

Hi,

This is a good decision for the future of NSW country,

the land and the water,

Fabulous decision – great foresight displayed – a real example of stepping up to the challenge of climate change

So grateful to you all for saving this very special place.

Thank you so much for saving Bylong from environmental rapists.

It’s a very precious beginning on our road to saving our Earth.

thank you for saving bylong valley! so intelligent, humane and responsible. i thank you, children thank you, the plants and critters and planet thank you