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Actions you can take to save our catchments
Campaign Objectives
The integrity of water supply catchments must always come first and this requires a much improved and independent regulatory system for mining in these areas. To achieve this aim it is necessary:
To prohibit high impact coal mining in catchments and other environmentally sensitive areas
Remove the Department of Mineral Resources as the environmental consent authority for underground mining operations in these areas
To establish underground mining prohibition areas for streams and upland swamps, as well as essential infrastructure, and mining protection zones for other vulnerable areas like cliffs and cave sites;
To enable both the Sydney Catchment Authority Board and Environment Protection Authority Board to impose further legally enforceable prohibition or protection zones to protect catchments;
To provide monthly public internet reporting of mine subsidence damage monitoring and advice from an independent expert ecological committee.
Your support for
Save Sydney's Water Campaign is crucial -
help stop our drinking water draining away!
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Write to, the Hon Nathan Rees, Premier of NSW, at Parliament House, Sydney, 2000, urging him to: |
Write a letter now about mining in the catchment and help protect our water supplies! |
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REMEMBER: POLITICIANS CONSIDER ONE HAND WRITTEN LETTER REPRESENTS 100 SUPPORTERS. |
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Click here for a LETTER WRITING GUIDE or download a FORM LETTER that you can get others to sign. If you want further assistance call Keith on (02) 9261 2400 or send an e-mail. |
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Return to this site regularly for updates on the protection of our water catchment from damage. |
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Last updated Sunday 09-Mar-2008