CCA EDO Roadshow

“Over the past two years, more landholders have come to us about access letters, licence breaches, and mining companies misusing or blocking access to private land,” said the CCA. “As volunteers, we can’t provide legal advice but this Roadshow, made possible with the EDO and local groups, is something we’ve long hoped to deliver. It’s timely, necessary, and community driven.” “We are forced to co-exist for the next 21 years under a lease granted without our consent, with no viable resource and no meaningful protection. If I locked them out of my land, I’d face $200,000 in fines — but they can lock me out, and it’s called legal.” - Resident - Tabulam

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The water quality crisis, 2023 update

Despite constant reports that the turbidity levels in the Nymboida River after rain are too high to allow extraction to occur, we’ve never heard a complaint from either council about forestry practices, including their being leased for grazing. Even the announcement by Forests NSW in 2015, that they intended to undertake intensive logging of some forests, i.e., clear-felling, there was no complaint. Then again total silence in 2019 when the State Government changed the Integrated Forests Operations Approval, halving the width of buffer zones along all mapped gullies and creeks, allowing logging to occur to within 5m of smaller waterways.

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SUBMISSION: Opposing the granting of Minerals Exploration Licence

Mining poses an unacceptable threat to water quality, particularly in high rainfall regions such as the Clarence Valley, where soil instability is also a problem. All of the exploration companies that are currently operating in the valley have failed to engage in, or adequately follow-through with community consultation. This indicates that those companies are deliberately ignoring the public’s concern, and the fact that they have no social licence to operate.

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