Daracon EIS goes on public exhibition

NSW Department of Planning have announced that Dararcon's EIS for the proposed Martins Creek Quarry Expansion has gone on public exhibition from 13th October through until 24th November.

It's official the EIS is on exhibition and seeking approval for the following;

  • Extract up to 1.5 million tonnes of hard rock material per annum

  • Expanding into new extraction areas and clearing 37ha of existing native vegetation

Increase the hours of operation;

  • Quarrying from 6am to 6pm (Monday to Saturday)

  • Processing from 6am to 10pm (Monday to Saturday)

  • Mixing and binding from 4.30am to 10pm (Monday to Saturday)

  • Stockpiling, loading and dispatch of road transport from 5.30am to 7pm (Monday to Saturday)

Increase off site transport from the site to;

  • 40 loads per hour dispatch during morning peaks (equating to 80 truck movements per hour taking into account empty trucks travelling to the site)

  • 215 loads per day (equating to 430 truck movements per day taking into account empty truck movements to the site) and

  • train loading 24 hours per day, 7 days per week

A first pass review shows the EIS is littered with miss leading information and errors, including the use of its current unlawful operations as background data within the assessments. The EIS also chooses to down play and in some cases omit the very real impacts already experienced by residents who live around the facility and along the haul route.

If you are concerned, remember silence is consent, be sure to lodge your objection to the development application via this link.