Protect Bylong Heritage and Horse Country

The Bylong Valley in NSW is home to spectacular countryside, fine horse-breeding country, and some of the best agricultural land in the country.

It is also the site of the magnificent Tarwyn Park heritage property, the birthplace of the unique Natural Sequence Farming system of regenerative agriculture.

All this stands to be lost if the proposed Bylong Coal Project goes ahead.

It will dig two huge open cut coal pits on the floodplain, as well as an underground mine, and will cause productive groundwater in the area to drop by at least 10 metres.

The Bylong Valley in NSW is home to spectacular countryside, fine horse-breeding country, and some of the best agricultural land in the country.

It is also the site of the magnificent Tarwyn Park heritage property, the birthplace of the unique Natural Sequence Farming system of regenerative agriculture.

All this stands to be lost if the proposed Bylong Coal Project goes ahead.

It will dig two huge open cut coal pits on the floodplain, as well as an underground mine, and will cause productive groundwater in the area to drop by at least 10 metres.

Lodge your objection to the Bylong Coal Project

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The NSW Planning Assessment Commission is reviewing the Bylong Coal project. They'll be assessing the heritage status of Tarwyn Park and recommending whether the mine should go ahead or not.

Please take a few moments to lodge a formal objection against this dangerous proposal.

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Dear Commissioners,

Please accept this submission of objection to the proposed Bylong Coal Project.

The project must be rejected. Its anticipated impacts on agricultural land, horse-breeding country, heritage and water are some of the worst ever seen for a coal mine proposal in this state and will cause enormous, irreparable damage.

Water and soil are far more valuable to NSW than opening up another coal mine in such a pristine valley.

I object to the project for the following reasons.

It would destroy several hundred hectares of strategic agricultural land and several hundred more of land that was supposed to be protected as part of the Upper Hunter equine critical industry cluster.

It proposes two open cut pits on the floodplain alongside a productive alluvial aquifer which currently supports cropping, beef studs and millions of dollars worth of agricultural production.

The mine will dramatically draw down this aquifer and risks permanently depleting it because the predicted water loss is greater than the recharge rate.

The Bylong project will open-cut historic Tarwyn Park, which has been, for forty years, a living laboratory for Natural Sequence Farming method of regenerative agriculture.

The State Heritage Council is currently considering listing the world-famous Tarwyn Park property on NSW's State Heritage Register.

I urge the PAC to reject this project.

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