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Call to stop $1billion Wallarah 2 mine

SPOTLIGHT: NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell third from left, and Alan Hayes, fourth from left, with Central Coast Coalition MPs wearing red anti-Wallarah 2 ‘‘water not coal’’ T-shirts, during the state election campaign.

OPPONENTS of the Wallarah 2 coalmine are calling on Premier Barry O’Farrell to honour an election promise by stopping the controversial $1billion proposal.

As the Newcastle Herald reported yesterday, the Korean government agency Kores intends re-lodging plans for the underground mine, which was rejected by former planning minister Tony Kelly weeks before Labor lost power in March.
 
Dooralong Valley resident Alan Hayes said it should not be allowed to threaten the Central Coast water supply.
 
Mr Hayes released a photograph of himself with Mr O’Farrell and the Coalition’s contingent of Central Coast MPs wearing red anti-Wallarah 2 ‘‘water not coal’’ T-shirts.
 
Former Wyong Labor MP David Harris said that considering the mine for a second time would be the ‘‘ultimate betrayal of the Wyong and Central Coast communities’’.
 
He reminded the government that the Liberal Party had written to the coal alliance, saying that ‘‘if necessary, special legislation will be introduced ... to protect the Wyong water catchment’’.

Newcastle Herald


Editor's Note:   Do you remember this beautiful picture of the NSW Premier, Barry O'Farrell sporting this tshirt?    Do you think that he must of thrown his out?  Or maybe it got lost in the wash?  Or maybe its now in his garage as an old rag?