No Quarry in Shallow Bay

23/07/2025

Some great news for the people in Lower Hunter Valley with the expansion of Martin's Creek Quarry dismissed by the Land and Environment Court.

In the court's judgement, Commissioner Peter Walsh and Acting Commissioner Michael Young said negative consequences of the project outweighed the positives.

"The beneficial impacts of the [application] relate principally to the supply of the quarry's product for the construction sector and particularly for infrastructure projects of public significance," the commissioners said.

"The negative consequences are particularly in relation to adverse traffic and pedestrian safety implications, and social and amenity-related impacts in the local area.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-23/appeal-to-expand-martins-creek-quarry-dismissed

The Land and Environment Court has dismissed an appeal from Daracon to expand the Martins Creek Quarry, inland of Newcastle, which would have seen up to 160 trucks a day through small country towns.

08/06/2025

Do you trust the consultants when they fail basic maths, and they are calculating the explosives....?

There are multiple places in the "Statement of Environment Effects" & "Appendix C - Noise & Vibration Impact Assessment - PAN-535491" where you say the operating hours are Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm., and no work on Weekends & Public Holidays

Here the screenshots...

But there are 260 weekdays in a year, less when public holidays are considered, not 300 working days as stated in 10.2 Operation Traffic Noise.

So average of 7 truck movements a day, nope more like 8 truck movements per working day.

It's basic maths, if you failed this what else is wrong with the report?
Not sure we can trust the explosives calculations, the same company did them.

08/06/2025

Wow, where do we start, here's a good one - Why do the neighbors have to leave their house and the public be excluded from public roads?

Because you want to blast some rock - sounds like you need a better plan.
Here's an idea, if it's not safe to use explosives, don't use them!

Lets go with the bottom of page 28 of the Statement of Environmental Effects.

07/06/2025

The DA for the Quarry at 465 Shallow Bay Road has been submitted

This URL will take you straight to the DA in MidCoast Councils Website
https://midcoast-web.t1cloud.com/T1PRDefault/WebApps/eProperty/P1/eTrack/eTrackApplicationDetails.aspx?r=MC.WEBGUEST&f=%24P1.ETR.APPDET.VIW&ApplicationId=DA2025%2f0366

Key dates - It was lodged on 4th June 2025
Community submissions can be made on Midcoast Councils website

Make submissions - there are lots of issues with this:
Noise, Environment, runoff, dust, environment, and more

Make a submission, and also write to the councilors and the mayor
(see the list of councilor emails in the reply below)

We need at least 10 different households to raise objects
Where there are more than ten objections by way of individual submissions from different households (note that a petition or pro-forma documents are counted as one objection)

The proposal involves a significant environmental, economic or social impact on the local community.

Applications where Councillors or Senior Council Staff are either applicants, owners or have an interest in the development.
(council have an conflict of interest in the quarry - they have been offered 1000 ton / year for use on roads with 500 ton a year to go on shallow bay road)

01/05/2025

14/04/2025

For all the Parents & Grandparents who have the kids over easter holidays, or if you just want to put a cool sign up in front of your house.

Something for the kids to do....

Lets keep it simple

Here's a few examples

Step 1 sign the petition
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-quarry-in-shallow-bay-protect-wallis-lake-wallingat-national-park

Step 2 make a "No Quarry Sign" and put it out the front

Step 3 put a picture up on the post so everyone can see your artwork..

14/04/2025

It's been one of those days...
Over thinking what I can post up today that is thoughtful, witty and engaging, and nothing.

That made me look back on my life, and some of the poor choices that I've made...

Ok, none of them were as bad as deciding to want to build quarry in a stunningly beautiful area part of the world, like Shallow Bay, but there have been some....

Then like a lightning bolt, the sudden realization that not all of the subjects I took at Uni (many many years ago) were a waste.

The Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery & Aerial Photo Analysis subjects might not have actually been a waste of time.

Citizen Scientists are a think, and there is so much content now available for people to engage with.

This video is satellite imagery of Shallow Bay, from Oct 2016 to Apr 2025 with up 44% cloud cover, generated from https://Copernicus.eu

A few points to note when looking at a time series of an area:
drought, time of day, cloud cover etc... are all visible in this timelapse.

So are changes in the treelines

And I forgot to put the Petition link on the post...
If you havn't signed the petition do it now, watch the video, and then sign the petition...

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-quarry-in-shallow-bay-protect-wallis-lake-wallingat-national-park

12/04/2025

Lets talk about how some quarry developers treat the community they plan to impact...

This is from the Forster Fortnightly, 19th March 2025, about a mining company doing exploration work out at Mt George, Wherrol Flat, Bobin & Mooral Creek

Awesome work by local reporters, keeping the community informed.

Note the geology in these areas is very different to what we have here in Shallow Bay.

No one is making you sign the petition to stop the Quarry in Shallow Bay, however if you don't want a quarry in Shallow Bay then sign the petition and use the links we're providing to have your say...

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-quarry-in-shallow-bay-protect-wallis-lake-wallingat-national-park

12/04/2025

The petition to stop the quarry is now live on Change.org

Sign it and share it.
Remember that "No Quarry in Shallow Bay" is not asking for donations, there is no need to donate on change.org, just share the link to friends, family, colleagues so they can help stop the quarry.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-quarry-in-shallow-bay-protect-wallis-lake-wallingat-national-park

Stop the Quarry in Shallow Bay, protect Wallis Lake & Wallingat National Park

11/04/2025

In just 2 days this page has encouraged the community to find about what and where the proposed quarry is going, and shown there is a lot of passion and love for the area in the community.

The quarry proposal has it's defenders, and opposition.

I've made the decision to block all comments on these and subsequent posts made on this account.

People are welcome to share the posts to any group and have a discussion there.

10/04/2025

It's been an amazing response since we created the page to start the awareness campaign about the Quarry in Shallow Bay, and what you can do to HAVE YOUR SAY and help stop it.

What can you do while you're waiting on us?
Tell your friends, family, neighbours.
Share the posts to them and have them follow us.

What we're doing?
We're putting the tools and processes together to make it simple for you to register and send a protest email.
Or to get the list of people at Council, National Parks, EPA and anyone else who has legal responsibility to protect the community, nature and Wallis Lake.