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We invite you to submit a community statement of care and protection.
It will be added to the CCA’s evidence to prove our community has granted no social licence for mineral mining here.
The CCA is going to Parliament in August. We are taking these statements with us to present to the Ministers for water, planning, environment and resources. The CCA will also send them to mining company CEOs in this region.
Mineral exploration licence numbers have reached 44 in the Clarence catchment; doubling in just 7 years. The high rainfall, flood and landslip zones of this area heighten the risk of water contamination from mineral mining activities, including exploration.
You can also write to the NSW Ministers for water, environment, resources and planning and tell them why this area is unsuited to mineral mining and how it will impact you.
What else can Ido?
Check out our calls to action in the list. We have many ways you can help our rivers, protect our water, and care for our catchment. Every action counts.
If you would like to assist the CCA please scroll down for our volunteer sign up form.
Please act now to protect the environmental, cultural, social, and economic wellbeing of the Clarence Catchment. A United community gets results!
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Are you a concerned local individual, leader or business owner who would be directly impacted by mining. Or are you being impacted now by mining exploration right now?
Formally submit your opposition to mining in the Clarence Catchment with the CCA.
For many years now the CCA has been collecting stakeholder statements as formal evidence that our community has granted NO SOCIAL LICENCE FOR MINING IS OUR CATCHMENT.
We have hundreds collated and we would love to add yours to our evidence.
We supply these statements to NSW Ministers and MP's, and will be sending them to mining CEO's, as evidence our community has granted NO SOCIAL LICENCE.
This is a very important way to assist the campaign.
Whether it's your cultural, social, environmental, or economic wellbeing being threatened we'd love to hear from you formally.
Please fill in our stakeholder statement form below so we can formally lodge your opposition to mining in the Clarence Catchment on your behalf.
Make your voice count today.
If you are a group please use the form on the CCA Allies page to formally register to stand alongside the CCA in our mission.
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Join and keep an eye on our Facebook Group and Instagram for upcoming events and news.
ATTEND THE CCA EDO ROADSHOW
Learn about your rights when faced with mineral mining exploration and what’s going on across the region and where.
Speakers include the EDO, scientists, cultural and species experts, business owners and farmers.
Copmanhurst July 26th
Grafton July 27th
Drake July 28th
Dorrigo July 29th
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Flood the ministers with the care we have for our catchment.
JUMP TO THE CCA letter template and the links to the Ministers contact pages.
In NSW, the Department of Regional NSW (specifically the Mining, Exploration, and Geoscience Division) is responsible for assessing and approving mineral mining leases. Several key ministers and government agencies are involved in the approval process for mineral mining leases.
See our list and letter template via the link.
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Would you like to get more actively involved? Please fill in our volunteers form or email us at stopcangaimine@gmail.com
Do you have time or a particular skill that would help? We are currently looking for doers and leaders, helpers and facilitators. Jump down to the form to see what you can help with.
Or if you have other ideas on how you could assist let us know.
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Are you part of a group or organisation passionate about protecting the environment, flora, fauna, culture, or community wellbeing?
Join forces with us to safeguard the Clarence Catchment from mining by becoming an official CCA ally.
Groups like Surfers for Climate, Surfrider Aus, Revive the Northern Rivers, Dorrigo Enviro, Blicks River Guardians, and the Clarence Environment Centre are already aligned. Theres so many more!
Simply fill out our allies form and email us your logo to be added to our allies list. We are stronger united! Check them all out here.
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Make a tax deductible CCA donation directly through our website DONATE NOW
We are a not for profit and all funds raised go back into the campaign.
We are currently raising money to fund a CCA delegation trip to NSW Parliament to speak with the Ministers responsible for mining, environment and water.
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Grab a sign from CCA outlets for FREE, and 'put it on ya fence' to show support.
Or purchase a sticker, T-shirt, hat patch or bag with our logo on it.
THEN Take a photo of it, post it on social media & tag the CCA & relevant NSW MPs to show them our community continues to be united.
USE@nominesclarencevalley @clarencecatchmentalliance @pennysharpemlc @rosejackson
#nominesclarencecatchment #clarencecatchmentalliance #pennysharpemlc #rosejacksonmlc
Show the Ministers we are a united community.
We will repost and share all content you post.
So please help us flood the ministers with the care we have for our catchment.
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Have the CCA present a talk at your local club, organisation, group or home. We would love to collaborate and share what's going on with you.
Grab a venue and a crowd and we will come to you! Just email us.
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Purchase a sticker, Tshirt, hat, woven patch, bag or sign from CCA outlets & online. Take a photo of them, post it on social media & tag us and the MPs responsible. See NSW Mps above for who to tag.
CCA OUTLETS:
Grafton: Go Vita, Shopping World
Grafton: Twilight Market
Grafton: Heart & Soul Wholefood Cafe, 124 Prince Street
Illuka: Iluka Emporium
Lawrence: Lawrence General Store
Maclean: Maclean Outdoor, 255 River Street
Yamba: Farmers' Market
Yamba: Yamba Organics
Yamba: Riverside Market -
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Share your views & pictures, discuss, debate & stay up to date. Inform others & have important conversations.
Host a community conversation, we’ll come to you! Just email us.
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We'd love some fact finding help. If you'd like to contribute please fill in our volunteers form below.
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The Clarence Catchment would love your HELP!
Please lend your voice to those that have none - our local waterways, water supply, flora, fauna, land, air and sea.
If you would like to assist us please fill in the form. We can’t wait to meet you.
Let’s protect our home on behalf of past and future generations to come.
GET ACTIVE NOW
Thank you for standing together to protect our water, save our rivers and care for our catchment.
Lodge your community care statement in opposition to mineral mining in the Clarence Catchment, which threatens our water.
Submit your personal STATEMENT using our easy submission form.
Tell policy makers how your environmental, social, cultural and economic wellbeing is threatened by this issue, because of the threat to our water.
Statements will be presented by the CCA to NSW Ministers, MPs, and Mining Company CEOs as evidence that proves the community has granted NO SOCIAL LICENCE!
Make your voice count. Protect the Clarence Catchment and the community’s environmental, social, cultural, and economic well-being.
If you are a community or environmental group, please submit your opposition on the CCA Allies form, and stand with us to protect the Clarence Catchment.
Make your voice count today.
submit your community care statement
submit your community care statement
WRITE TO THE NSW MINISTERS
Please write to the NSW Ministers listed below using the letter template as a guide, or create your own personalised message. If you write your own please consider pasting the official LEGISLATION amendments the CCA is calling for inot your letter. They are in the letter template. All names and contact forms are linked below.
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This is just a suggestion. Please personalise it , add what the area means to you and what is at stake. Or write your own version but please be sure to include the 4 points we are calling for.
My name is … and I am a …
I write to voice my concern about the mineral mining explorations underway in the Clarence Catchment, NSW, and the potential threat this poses to the local ecology, waterways, drinking water, culture, and economy.
Recent catastrophic floods in the Northern Rivers prove that this is no place for mineral mining and tailings dams.
Mining in high rainfall flood zones, on steep terrain next to the Clarence, Mann, and Nymboida Rivers, and in our drinking water catchments, WILL leach or overflow. Heavy metals and toxins will enter our waterways and drinking water. This is an irreparable catastrophe waiting to happen.
Given the well-documented track record of tailings dams failure, and their contamination of waterways in Australia and around the world, I appeal to you for support. We ask for a ban on mineral mining in this region.
Our water-based community and economy relies heavily on our river systems, catchments, and ocean for our social, cultural, environmental, and financial wellbeing.
No promise of mining jobs can outweigh the potential decimation of the millions of dollars, and employment, that our existing local sectors already provide. Tourism, fishing, prawning, farming, agri-food, to name a few.
Three First Nations have deep cultural ties to Country and Riverdreaming is core to the rich culture of this area.
The Clarence catchment provides habitat for many endangered threatened and at risk species. The Eastern Freshwater Cod, Koala, Coastal Emu, and Platypus to name a few.
We know that you hold the authority to make changes to State Policy to protect this rich ecological and cultural area, and you value the worth our economy contributes to NSW.
It is with the above in mind that I appeal to you to.
I RESPECTFULLY URGE THE NSW GOVERNMENT TO:
Ban future mineral mining, exploratory and active in the Clarence Catchment
Cease the renewal of and revoke existing exploration licences and mining leases in areas of the Clarence Catchment (i.e. the Clarence Valley and surrounding Local Government Areas) that feed our water source, in recognition of:
-the threatened species and ecological communities found in this region, such as the Eastern Freshwater Cod and Koala
-the region's food, fishing, farming and tourism industries that are reliant on clean water, and the existing thriving economy and employment these industries create
-First Nations, cultural and community ties to the Clarence River, its major tributaries and surrounding lands
-the heightened risk of contamination due to the region's high rainfall and frequent major flooding events.
Join our calls to the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces to amend the NSW State Environmental Planning Policy (Resources and Energy) 2021 to add the following as prohibited development:
-Mineral mining and mineral exploration in all parts of the Clarence Valley Local Government Area and the Clarence Catchment's headwaters in the Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Armidale Regional, Glen Innes Severn, Tenterfield, Kyogle and Richmond Valley Local Government Areas.
Amend the NSW Mining Act 1992 to ban mineral exploration and mineral mining occurring in major urban drinking water catchments, culturally and environmentally sensitive areas, in areas prone to flood and landslips, and across the Clarence Catchment.
Thank you for your time; I await your response.
Sincerely…
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Key Ministers:
The Hon. Rose Jackson, MLC - Minister for Water
Contact Page: Minister for Water – NSW Government
The Hon. Penny Sharpe, MLC - Minister for Climate Change, Energy, Environment, and Heritage
Contact Page: Minister for Environment – NSW Government
The Hon. Courtney Houssos, MLC -Minister for Natural Resources-
Contact Page: Minister for Natural Resources – NSW Government
The full list of Ministers is here.
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/Pages/ministers.aspx
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Put a CCA sticker on your car, board, boat, bike, garbage bin, anywhere.
Join OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROTEST - Flood the ministers social media with our calls to act!.
Instructions:
Take a photo of your sticker and post it on social media.
Tag the CCA & the NSW Ministers listed below to show them our community is united
@nominesclarencevalley @clarencecatchmentalliance @pennysharpemlc @paulscullymp @tara.moriarty @rosejackson
#nominesclarencevalley #nominesclarencecatchment #clarencecatchmentalliance #pennysharpemlc #paulscullymp #taramoriarty #rosejacksonmlc
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We will repost and share all content you post. So please help us flood the ministers with the care we have for our catchment.
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Once you receive your shirt take a photo of it post it on social media & tag the CCA & relevant NSW MPs to show them our community continues to be united.
So we can see it and the Ministers get the message please tag:
@nominesclarencevalley @clarencecatchmentalliance @pennysharpemlc @paulscullymp @tara.moriarty @rosejackson
#nominesclarencevalley #nominesclarencecatchment #clarencecatchmentalliance #pennysharpemlc #paulscullymp #taramoriarty #rosejacksonmlc
Show the Ministers we are a united community.
We will repost and share all content you post. So please help us flood the ministers with the care we have for our catchment.
100% Organic Cotton AS Colour
Proceeds go directly back into the campaign and we thank you.
WANNA GET INVOLVED IN OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PROTEST? - Flood the ministers socials with our calls to act!.
Instructions:
Once you receive your shirt take a photo of it post it on social media & tag the CCA & relevant NSW MPs to show them our community continues to be united.
So we can see it and the Ministers get the message please tag:
@nominesclarencevalley @clarencecatchmentalliance @pennysharpemlc @paulscullymp @tara.moriarty @rosejackson
#nominesclarencevalley #nominesclarencecatchment #clarencecatchmentalliance #pennysharpemlc #paulscullymp #taramoriarty #rosejacksonmlc
Show the Ministers we are a united community.
We will repost and share all content you post. So please help us flood the ministers with the care we have for our catchment.