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Across New South Wales, farmers, landholders, families, and volunteers are increasingly finding themselves forced to organise, gather evidence, and form alliances to protect the regions where they live. Communities say they are undertaking the difficult work of monitoring impacts, documenting environmental risks, and advocating for safeguards; roles many believe should be adequately addressed through legislation, regulation, and government oversight. As governments place grow

Cadia case highlights risks facing communities across regional NSW, and the need for stronger protections A landmark class action over contamination from the Cadia goldmine will come before the Supreme Court of New South Wales for its first hearing in Sydney on 17 March 2026, drawing attention from communities across the state concerned about the impacts of large-scale mining operations. The case has been brought by the Cadia Community Sustainability Network (CCSN) on behalf

There's a new dispossession happening to communities everywhere. Governments and mining companies see our land as barren emptiness. They don't see us, our communities or thriving farms and businesses. They shower us with cliches, overwhelm us with burdensome processes, then they completely ignore us. We've seen how massive community efforts and expensive expert reports have not only been ignored in project after project, but have been totally disregarded by a parliamentary in

The City of Coffs Harbour unanimously passed a resolution to co-sign a letter from the Clarence Valley Council to the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces requesting mineral exploration and mining be prohibited in the Clarence water catchment. The original recommendation was to protect the area's drinking water sourced from the Clarence catchment, but the new resolution explicitly prohibited mineral exploration and mining to ensure drinking water safety. Shae Fleming, Clar

Trigg Minerals has plans to explore for antimony within the Coffs Clarence regional drinking water supply catchment, much of which is...

Mining sites along the Clarence River Between 1974 and 1976 Mt Carrington Mines Ltd extracted a small tonnage of high-grade silver and...

An open-cut lead, zinc and silver mine could cost the Mudgee region's agricultural, wine and visitor economies up to $334 million a year...

There are currently 44 approved exploration licenses in the Clarence catchment with prospectors seeking minerals including gold, copper,...

Mounds of contaminated foam have been found repeatedly on the Belubula river, with independent lab testing showing 67,500 times the...