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<div>Whitsunday Water is at risk from a proposed Gold Mine
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<div>We need community support to fund our ongoing legal challenge. 
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<div>We are headed to land court to ensure Environmental studies; that have not been done, are done and our water and 'threatened species' are protected
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<div>This mine site impacts all Whitsundays residents as the Dittmer processing plant is just the cookhouse or 'kitchen' for the much larger 'restaurant ' of the Dittmer Project, seen below. Look at the close distance to the Great Barrier Reef!
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<div>Peter Faust Dam is under that map above; that's your drinking water! Seen again below MOON is the drinking water resources for entire Whitsundays. 
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<div>This gold mine processing plant aims to use 'cyanide leech' methods and 'backfill waste rock'; both known to poison water. Our water flows downstream to the Great Barrier Reef and our run off; into the drinking supply for the entire Whitsundays.
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<div>We are opposed to any Gold mine being approved with very little evidence of environmental studies.  QLD government has approved a draft EA and sees no issue with what’s about to take place. Nothing to see here !!!!! The mining company bond is $18,000. 
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<div>DITTMER, in the Proserpine State Forest; is an environmentally sensitive and significant area; with 4 nationally endangered 'threatened species'. 
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<div>Please help us save Dittmer and Whitsunday Water. 
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<div>Lawyers need $25,000
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<div>$5000 expert reports
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<div>$20,000 ‘prospects’
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<div>This is before we even get to land court this is pre land court.
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<div>Facts:
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<div>Ballymore’s Resources has a pending application for a Gold Mining LEASE (ML100351) at Dittmer, Whitsundays.
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<div>This means full blown production at Dittmer; for a project proposed as the ‘Next Ravenswood’ (biggest gold mine in QLD) on the edge of Kelsey creek, in the hinterland of the Whitsundays.
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<div>Dittmer/Kelsey Creek falls into 2 water catchments Great Barrier Reef and Peter Faust Dam (drinking water for the entire Whitsundays). Dittmer and the proposed mine site and production plant is home to 4 federally endangered MNES species.
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<div>We aim to contest the approval of this mine.
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<div>WHY?
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<div>•	Ballymore has done no EPBC REFERAL (MNES)- this needs to be done by the mining company prior to any action or activity with any potential to harm federally 'protected matters' such as 'threatened species and vegetation', 'water resources (under the EPBC precautionary principle)' and 'Great Barrier Reef'
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<div>•	NO EIA-baseline environmental studies and data
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<div>•	NO EIS-advanced environmental studies mixed with risks and mitigation of said risks to water, humans, threatened species and ecosystems, Great Barrier Reef
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<div>•	NO first nation’s consultation- DOR has not answered our 'right to negotiate' questions, they chose to advertise the notification of this mine lease in two out of town papers and call that fair notification
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<div>•	They aim to use 'cyanide' not safe in such a high rainfall elevated area and cyclone zone, imagine all it takes is one wet season storm and all that cyanide is downstream at the reef just 30 mins away, on the way it lands on important agricultural land
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<div>•	They aim to 'backfill waste rock' not safe causes 'Acid Mine Drainage' poisons water, DEE RIVER AND WALSH RIVER IN LINKS BELOW ARE CLOSE TO HOME THIS EXAMPLES OF EXACTLY THIS
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<div><a href="https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/great-barrier-reef/submissions/sub008/sub008.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/great-barrier-reef/submissions/sub008/sub008.pdf" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/great-barrier-reef/submissions/sub008/sub008.pdf</a></a>
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<div><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-29/old-mine-that-has-poisoned-creek-and-river-in-north-qld/10133118" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-29/old-mine-that-has-poisoned-creek-and-river-in-north-qld/10133118" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-29/old-mine-that-has-poisoned-creek-and-river-in-north-qld/10133118</a></a>
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<div>This is the first costs; which we all are contributing to. bUT WE DO NEED MORE TO FIGHT THIS.
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<div>Any amount you can offer is good.
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<div>Please review our media releases:
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<div><a href="https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/residents-in-whitsundays-village-of-dittmer-say-no-to-ballymore-mining-lease/news-story/106b1e8b6818f19de491c266fedd148d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/residents-in-whitsundays-village-of-dittmer-say-no-to-ballymore-mining-lease/news-story/106b1e8b6818f19de491c266fedd148d" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/mackay/residents-in-whitsundays-village-of-dittmer-say-no-to-ballymore-mining-lease/news-story/106b1e8b6818f19de491c266fedd148d</a></a>
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<div><a href="https://www.mackayandwhitsundaylife.com/article/proserpine-gold-mine-re-opens-after-70-years" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.mackayandwhitsundaylife.com/article/proserpine-gold-mine-re-opens-after-70-years" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.mackayandwhitsundaylife.com/article/proserpine-gold-mine-re-opens-after-70-years</a></a>
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<div>Please sign our petition:
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<div><a href="https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-gold-mine-in-dittmer-and-the-proserpine-state-forest" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-gold-mine-in-dittmer-and-the-proserpine-state-forest" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-gold-mine-in-dittmer-and-the-proserpine-state-forest</a></a>
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<div>Please visit our Facebook page:
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<div>Our page with further information
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<div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/stopthegoldmine" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/stopthegoldmine/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/stopthegoldmine/</a></a>
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<div>thank you for all help you can offer.
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