Est. 2019 in Wollongong/Dharawal country, Protect Our Water Alliance demands an end to mining in the water catchment for Sydney and Wollongong.
Wollongong, NSW
Joined May 2019
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We lose millions of litres of drinking water from Sydney and Wollongong’s water catchment every single day as a result of the impacts of mining on our water catchment.
Heavy rain is predicted for Wollongong this weekend. What are the operators of the mines in this city doing to ensure predicted heavy rain won’t pollute waterways? Can we have confidence that we won’t see coal wash in creeks.
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Over 100ml of rain at Russell Vale, over 170ml of rain at Helensburgh, debris on the roads at Mt Kembla — how are the coal mines at these locations looking this morning? Who checks whether the settling ponds overflowed? Who takes samples from the creeks?
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There’s no ‘nice glass of red’ without water. #stopmininginourwatercatchment
Dendrobium expansion back on the table under new Illawarra coal ownership ift.tt/HALvBnR
Water drinkers don’t care how many red cars a bloke owns or who he backs in the State of Origin. But we care A LOT about damage to our drinking water catchment. No expansion of Dendrobium Mine.
Dendrobium expansion back on the table under new Illawarra coal ownership ift.tt/HALvBnR
@FriendsoftheABC your voices are needed
Woodside's Burrup Hub project would be a disaster for our beautiful oceans and our fragile climate.
The independence of our ABC is vital to our democracy and should be protected at all costs:
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@withMEAA this is not ok
Absolutely appalling over reach from WA police
Very much hope that #4corners and @abcnews do the right thing and refuse to give up the footage and protect their sources at @disruptburruphub
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If you can make a donation to the Environmental Defenders Office, it will help them keep doing this kind of work.
#BREAKING: Traditional Custodian Raelene Cooper has been granted an urgent injunction to prevent Woodside Energy seismic blasting for its Scarborough Gas Project!
The injunction means Woodside cannot commence seismic blasting until the validity of its approval is decided.
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This photograph was taken today, more than three weeks after the incident that polluted Camp Gully Creek in the Royal National Park. The mining company say they’ve contracted a clean up. So maybe cleaning up after the fact is not really the answer to this ongoing problem.
ALT Yellow bush rock surrounds shiny black sludge.
1/6 Almost two weeks ago, a landslip at Metropolitan Mine resulted in coal sludge polluting Camp Gully Creek in the Royal National Park. This is just the latest in a series of pollution events impacting waterways in the Royal National Park.
1/3 Back in 2021, the mine that has had numerous EPA notices relating to polluting Camp Gully Creek in the Royal National Park shut down for months because ‘price volatility’. #platypus #hackingriver #theroyal #royalnationalpark
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When will the NSW Government let us know how the platypus reintroduced into the Royal National Park are doing after the recent pollution event in Camp Gully Creek?
ALT Meme with four panels. Annikin Skywalker smiles and says ‘we’re going to reintroduce platypus to the Royal National Park’. Padme replies ‘you’re going to close the coal mine and clean up mine waste first, right?’. Annikin says nothing. Padme looks concerned and says ‘Right?’.
Why do we treat mining companies like a protected species and platypus as an expendable photo opportunity? Stop mining in the Royal National Park, stop mining in our water catchment. The mine is not essential.
ALT A mossy, rocky creek bank beside water full of black sludge. Photo taken in the Royal National Park a week after a pollution incident caused by the legacy of coal mining.
We’re spending a bit of time refreshing the news page on @nswenviromedia website — surely today there’ll be a statement on how this incident impacts platypus released into the Royal National Park. It’s been a week since it happened.
Photos of Camp Creek and Hacking River pollution, Royal National Park, from recent colliery land slip. It was international news that platypus were reintroduced a couple of months ago, after many decades. Lets hope this does not affect their survival! abc.net.au/news/2023-05-14/p…
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This is coal sludge in Camp Gully Creek in the Royal National Park. Does anyone know if the recently released platypus are doing okay after this pollution incident? #platypus #royalnationalpark #hackingriver #campgullycreek
ALT Black, shiny sludge covers the ground near some bush rocks and leaf litter.
The Metropolitan Mine undermines Sydney’s water catchment, with longwall mining even running under Woronora Reservoir. We don’t need this mine. We could close it and employ miners to deal with the legacy of waste that repeatedly pollutes waterways in the Royal National Park.
We are looking forward to hearing an update on platypus being monitored in these waterways from @royalnational or @RewildingOZ or @PennySharpemlc or @ChrisMinnsMP or really anyone, the silence so far is speaking volumes, but we’d love to hear they are doing okay.