Larraine Dunk, pictured on her property on the outskirts of the proposed Cobbora coal mine, fears her lifestyle will be destroyed and her property made unsaleable by the development. 070911/rmcobbora/014
Larraine Dunk first became aware of the State Government’s plans to build a coal mine six kilometres from her Laheys Creek property when her neighbours began disappearing.
Mrs Dunk found herself going to “clearing sale after clearing sale” as one by one her neighbours’ properties were bought up by the Cobbora Coal Project consortium.
With little information available from the consortium, no public consultation and neighbours who had sold tight-lipped about the proposals, she began to research the Cobbora Coal Project and other possible mining developments in the region herself.
“People just left,” she said. “It was horrible – there was no community consultation at all.”
This Sunday, September 11, she is inviting neighbours and other interested people to a meeting to discuss the proposed open cut coal mine at Cobbora, the Eastern Star gas pipeline which will pass through the area, and potential coal seam gas exploration in the area.
Mudgee Guardian
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