This mine means more noise, more traffic and more dust
Residents of Lue, those living along the Lue Road and residents in Mudgee can expect a significant increase in noise, dust and vehicle traffic if the mine goes ahead.
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How will the lead, zinc and silver be transported?
Mined product will be trucked on B-Doubles six days per week, from 7am-6pm, along the Lue Road and through Mudgee.
This will mean up to six B-Double truck movements along the Lue Road and through Mudgee per day, six days per week.
This doesn’t include obvious increases in worker and construction traffic, or additional supply materials including dangerous processing chemicals like cyanide, arsenic and antimony.
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The Mudgee-Rylstone Tourist Trail
Today, the Lue Road is a key transport link for the local community and vital to the local tourism industry.
The road is regularly used by cyclists and motorbikes, and increased heavy mine traffic will jeopardise the strong tourism reputation of the area.
If Lue Road becomes busier and unsafe, tourists will opt to leave Mudgee via the Castlereagh Highway, bypassing the towns of Rylstone and Kandos.
This could seriously impact the visitor economy in those areas.
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Dust
Bowdens’ EIS concludes people living in Lue will not be effected by dust issues if the mine proceeds. This conclusion is based on insufficient data and underestimate levels of community exposure which overlook concentrate, mined ore materials and tailings as sources of potentially toxic dust.
It also ignores peak wind events, and relies on out of date guidelines regarding compliance levels for acceptable community exposure in houses.
