Environmental and social justice.
Our mission is:
To maintain a community environment information, resource and advocacy centre.
To educate and inform the community about biodiversity and the need to protect it.
To provide and promote the dissemination of information and views regarding environmental matters.
To promote and assist cooperation, sharing of resources and coordination of activities amongst environment and community groups.
To protect and conserve ecological processes, genetic diversity and the natural environment.
EPA TO PROSECUTE DELTA OVER FISH KILL
EPA TO PROSECUTE DELTA OVER FISH KILL
The failure of Delta Electricity to maintain its equipment has been found by the NSW EPA to have resulted in the release of concentrated sodium hypochlorite via the cooling water outlet, leading to the mass fish kill of September 2022.
““The NSW EPA’s findings validate long-running concerns held by many residents of southern Lake Macquarie, that Sunset Power International do not take its responsibilities to the community or the environment seriously,” ”
Delta’s dirty deeds done dirt cheap: the impacts of Vales Point power station on Lake Macquarie
Our latest report, released in May 2023 on the pollution impacts on the southern Lake Macquarie of Delta’s Vales Point power station and Chain Valley and Mannering collieries features previously unpublished documentation on the cooling-water system of Vales Point power station, linked to the second mass fish kill to occur in Wyee Bay in 2022. In June this year, the outcome of the NSW EPA fish kill investigation is expected to be announced publicly.
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Barrington to Hawkesbury Climate Corridors Plant Communities and Threatened Flora: Connecting regional climate change refugia for native species’ persistence in a warming world
“I see the HCEC as playing an important role in our community by providing environmental movements across the region with the necessary research and resources for projects to be effective.”
— Tom Patterson, Volunteer
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Find out about a wide variety of events and opportunities hosted by our environment centre, as well as those organised and run by the grassroots environmental movement in the Hunter.
