Long-term resident Deidre Olofsson is one of just seven residents who are yet to sell their home to nearby mines.

She spent the best part of the week reading the report and was left disappointed.

“It has been two years in the making and I don’t blame the authors but it is lacking is so many areas,” Mrs Olofsson said.

“It is obvious they just don’t have the data, most of the predictions are not scientific and are just a guess which isn’t good enough, it is not what I expected,” she said.

She was also highly critical of the use of averages in the measurements of dust and estimates of noise.

“When you average out the dust over a year it doesn’t give a true indication of what is really happening,” Mrs Olofsson said.

She got little pleasure in the report’s advice on what to do on a bad day.

“One part said on a bad day doors should be shut, people should wear masks and we should put the air conditioners on and stay inside and seek medical advice,” she said.

“That is a ridiculous expectation, especially when we are told our energy bills are going to increase by 20 per cent.”

She was further alarmed by the suggestion that the mines should buy up the remaining private properties because of the impacts.

“The point is people are still living in these homes, they might be renting them off the mines but they are still living in them and the impacts are the same if you own a home or not,” she said.

“To me it is putting the coal industry before people,” she said.

As for the Camberwell village, the place she has called home for 24 years, Mrs Olofsson holds little hope for the future.

Several times throughout the document, the report suggests recommendations ‘if Camberwell village is to continue to be a viable settlement.’

She further criticised the report for failing to mention nearby Falbrook.

“Those people deserved better, they deserved some acknowledgement and when we asked for this report we specifically asked for Camberwell district but Department of Planning narrowed it down to the village,” she said.

“Warkworth, Jerrys Plains and Singleton have our fight ahead of them.”