Dear Premier Miles and Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek,

We urge you both to protect water, farmland, native habitat and our climate, and refuse Whitehaven’s proposed Winchester South coal mine. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is telling governments around the world to cease opening new fossil fuel projects if we’re to have any chance of preventing the worst of the climate crisis.

Whitehaven also has a track record of flouting environmental laws in Australia and can not be trusted to abide by environmental conditions. The mine would cause irreparable damage to water and land, including remnant habitat for the koala and the greater glider.