The NSW Government is considering, for the second time, the proposal for the Wallarah 2 coal mine. This mine would result in the extraction of up to 5 million tonnes of polluting coal each year for 28 years in an area north-west of Wyong, undermining several waterways. This project has already been refused once, by the previous government, due to unacceptable impacts on water, ecosystems and heritage sites.

This project should be rejected once and for all. Submission deadline: 21 June 2013

Attached is a submission guide from the Nature Conservation Council of NSW63.5 KB to help you draft your submission. It is important to write your submission in your own words.

CEN has also provided an on-line submission template available at: http://www.cen.org.au/wallarah-form

Please take a few minutes to send your on-line submission. It is important to add your own words to your submission if you can.

Please help us to stop mining in the Wyong Valleys !

The Proposed Wallarah 2 Coal Project – Wyong is currently on exhibition.

Please make a submission objecting to this proposal for an underground coal mine in our drinking water catchments. Public submissions on the proposal close on June 21.

Premier O'Farrell must keep his water catchment promise and rule out Central Coast mine proposal. The resurrection of the Wallarah 2 coal mine proposal near Wyong highlights the need for binding legal protections for the state’s drinking water catchments.

For more information on the proposal – visit http://www.majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=4974

Download a form letter with key points for your submission

The Community Environment Network (CEN) has received a letter from the Federal Department of Infrastructure and Transport. The letter outlines the results of the Joint Study into Aviation Capacity in the Sydney Region 2012. It also states:  “The Australian Government is not giving any active consideration to an airport in this location.”

The Study concluded that none of the options considered on the Central Coast would meet Sydney’s future aviations needs. It found that an airport in North Wyong was the most expensive, noise would affect the most residents and there were many environmental issues.

The Community Environment Network (CEN) is proud to offer the services of a professional Bush Regeneration Team. CEN has been conducting professional Bush Regeneration Services for over 6 years.

CEN’s Bush Regeneration team has extensive experience in rehabilitating ecosystems including wet and dry sclerophyll forests, rainforest, wetlands, coastal dunes and heathlands. Many of ecosystems that CEN maintains are listed endangered ecological communities including River-flat Eucalypt Forest, Swamp Sclerophyll Forest, Freshwater Wetlands, Littoral Rainforests and Themeda grasslands on seacliffs and coastal headlands.