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Stranded Vickery Scoping Paper contains material omissions about tyre landfilling and heritage

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Pic supplied: Steven O’Donoghue, Director of Resource Assessments, spruiked the now-failing Vickery Coal mine at a public meeting, Boggabri, 2017.

Feature image supplied: Steven O’Donoghue, Director of Resource Assessments, spruiked the now-failing Vickery Coal mine at a public meeting, Boggabri, 2017. A Scoping Paper addressed to Stephen O’Donoghue, the Director or Resource Assessments, NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) on 5th July 2023, contains material omissions in relation to a matter of significant heritage … Read more

Maules Creek Coal Mine faces more criminal charges: Knitting Nannas report

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When Whitehaven Coal recently faced serious criminal charges brought by the NSW EPA in a NSW Land and Environment Court trial, observers expected the Namoi region’s worst polluter to plead guilty and cop a fine. That is what Whitehaven did when its Narrabri underground mine was prosecuted in 2020 for 19 charges of causing significant … Read more

Maules Creek Coal Mine – Modification 9 – Biodiversity Offsets Submission

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1 Introduction North West Protection Advocacy is based in Coonabarabran, New South Wales. We are a community group that conducts research and advocacy in relation to environmental impacts of hazardous industries in north-west New South Wales, particularly concerning the impacts of fossil extraction, transportation and production on forests, water and farms. We object to the … Read more

NWPA present their objection to the Narrabri Stage 3 Coal Mine Expansion to the IPC

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Thank you for the opportunity to come before the IPC, to contribute to the case against approving the Narrabri Stage 3 expansion. I’m Johanna Evans and I represent North West Protection Advocacy, a grassroots environmental advocacy group which is committed to preserving the cultural and ecological values of the Pilliga Forest. I pay my respects … Read more

UPDATED: EPA tells Whitehaven Coal to go-ahead and bury tyres, on Aboriginal Land

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UPDATE: Since we published this blog article on Whitehaven Coal tyre landfill scandal, the NSW Aboriginal Land Council has been reported by ABC News Tamworth as having APPROVED the burial of mining tyres in land owned by Gunnedah’s Red Chief Local Aboriginal Land Council. Read the ABC News update on the outrageous decision of the … Read more