THE local man who led the fight to oppose a coal mine near Wyong said his community action group was ready for a rematch.
But Alan Hayes, the staunch campaigner against South Korean proposals to mine under sensitive Wyong water catchment areas, is quietly optimistic that the renewed Kores application for its Wallarah 2 coal mine is doomed to fail.
"There have been suggestions from the Opposition that the NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has reneged on his pre-election promises to stop this project but I have to say that really all he has done is to accept that Kores are legally entitled to waste their money with another application and that he has a legal obligation for it to be duly considered," Mr Hayes said on Monday.
"But I have no doubt that the Kores application will fail on the same grounds that it failed before. At stake is the water supply to 300,000 Central Coast people and we have solid proof that mining will seriously endanger that supply if not actually destroy it," he said.
Lakes Mail.
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