SOS Liverpool Plains, a group of women from all walks of life – city, town and country – held a traditional cake stall as a fund raiser for CCAG last Saturday in the centre of Quirindi. Thanks to the townsfolk’s generosity and the cake bakers’ finesse, they succeeded in raising over $900 to support the CCAG’s education programme to increase local awareness, based on other communities direct experience, of the negative impacts of coal mining on a community’s health, wealth and water supplies. 

The ladies certainly heard on Saturday what the townsfolk thought of the black, toxic dust pollution being spread by the coal trains and were pleased to hear of their overwhelming support for an unpolluted rural life. SOS Liverpool Plains believe that if the mining companies are remotely interested in the environment, as they plead that they are, they would obviously cover their coal trains instead of spreading this toxic dust on our towns and surrounding areas. 

So, make your democratic voice heard! Get them to cover their load as we have to do! Please write a letter of protest to the Hon. George Souris, MP for Upper Hunter today, or print, date and sign our letter here – your lungs and that of your children and grandchildren, will thank you for it.