Tasman Sea under threat from mining activities near Gloucester NSW.

A silent war is going on and people drink at a hotel named after a local river which is under serious crisis. The council is not seeing this. The infrastructure should never have started here. 

The local people were smothered with double talk.  In this case the end does not justify the means.  Yes the town needs employment but it doesn't need mining jobs.  These companies use their own people mostly and there are usually only a few contract positions for a short time.

Avon Hotel.   Named after the Avon River.

Avon River is lovely and it is  a perennial stream of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia.

The Avon River rises in the northern foothills of the Barrington Tops, south of Carsonville, and flows generally north-east, joined by five minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Gloucester River, near Gloucester, south of the confluence of the Gloucester River with the Barrington River.

The river descends 412 metres (1,352 ft) over its 42 kilometres (26 mi) course. The catchment area of the river benefits from melting snow in spring. Gloucester district, although incredibly hot in the main summer months, nevertheless has an annual rainfall averaging 1,300 millimetres (51 in).  As a result, combined with the merging streams and rivers, periodic serious flooding occurs in theAvon Valley at Gloucester, sometimes cutting all transport links.
 
The Gloucester River eventually flows into the Manning River, a major waterway which flows into the Tasman Sea through a minor delta east of Taree.

Driving down the road we cross the Avon River just out of Gloucester

 In 2004, assessments of water sampling done in 1997 by the NSW Environment Protection Authority, revealed poor water quality, with high levels of nutrients leading to excess algae.

Along the river, downstream from Stratford, bank erosion and the invasion by exotic plant species have degraded the river.

AGL say the river isn't great now and wonders what our problem is regarding this.  This sort of unharnessed power with no conscious is quite a worry.  Mike Moraza who heads up Upstream Gas for AGL Gloucester Project cannot see the connection.  At Gloucester there is too much pressure to move on this project and the educated understanding of the geology has been laughed at and Professor Pell's has illustrated this to AGL.

Images @ Melonpopzdropz  Flickr

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