PLEASE come and visit our community; that is the message residents of Bulga want the recently re-elected NSW Premier Mike Baird to hear loud and clear.
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At a meeting attended by 100 residents in Bulga on Monday night it was decided unanimously to continue the fight to save the village from the expansion of the neighboring Warkworth and Mt Thorley open cut mines.
“We had 100 residents out of a community of 350 and each and everyone present wanted to fight to stop the approval of the two mines,” Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association spokesman John Lamb said.
Before the election, the Premier said he was more than happy to come and “walk the ground” at Bulga, Mr Lamb said.
“So now we want the Premier to honour that commitment and meet with us – urgently,” he said.
“That way we can show him the impacts on our village of Warkworth expansion.”
Mr Lamb said the Bulga Milbrodale Progress Association is also calling on the Premier to say to the mine’s owner Rio Tinto that, yes, the coal resource is there but it can only be extracted by underground mining methods.
“The Premier is in a position to do that and we suggest he does that immediately,” Mr Lamb said.
“That way the miners’ jobs are saved, the village of Bulga is saved and the environment is saved.
“It’s a win-win situation.”
