Bulga under threat from big coal
Our community of Bulga has been locked in a David and Goliath battle with Rio Tinto for several years and we now need your help to take the battle to Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting.
After promising they wouldn’t expand their Mt Thorley Warkworth coal mine any closer to our town, Rio Tinto broke their promise. We took them to court and won, twice. However, the NSW Government changed the law so that Rio Tinto could continue to develop their plans for the mine expansion.
If the expansion goes ahead it will create severe noise and dust impacts for residents, and destroy a critically endangered woodland. The impacts would be so significant that the Planning Assessment Commission recently suggested that serious consideration be given to moving the entire village of Bulga should Rio Tinto expand its open-cut coal mine.
Photo: Kate Ausburn
Rio Tinto is currently trying to sell all of its Australian coal mines, including Mt Thorley Warkworth. Apart from the environmental, social and climatic disaster this mine is, there is also no economic case for its expansion.
Taking our campaign to Rio Tinto's board
Help us get to Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting in Brisbane on 5 May, so we can ask their Chairman directly to stop the mine expansion, and put our case to Rio’s shareholders for why this project needs to be shelved.
All money raised will go to covering our travel costs and any left over will be split 50/50 between the Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association and Market Forces.
Who's who?
Market Forces works with Australians to keep finance and investment out of environmentally damaging projects.
The Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association is leading the campaign to protect the historic town of Bulga from the proposed Rio Tinto Mt Thorley-Warkworth coal mine.
