Next Progress meeting is on the 09/09/2013, at the Royal Hotel, Capertee. 7pm.
All welcome

Airly Mine Community Consultation Sessions

Airly Mine Community Consultation Sessions

Session 1: September at Airly Mine
Contents: Subsidence and Groundwater.

Session 2: September at Glen Davis
Contents: Bio Diversity(Flora and Fauna), Cultural Heritage and Aquatic Ecology.

Session 3: October at Capertee Hall
Contents: Visual Assessments, Air Quality, Noise, Rehabilitation, Final Landform

Exact dates to be advised.

3 Day music Festival in the Valley approved

Also from the Capertee Valley Alliance Blog:

'Music festival approved for Lithgow.'

ABC Central West Radio News- 

The event to be held on a property at Glen Alice, is expected to attract around 2000 people and will have three stages featuring a range of DJs, live bands and markets."  "An application to run a three day music festival outside Lithgow has been given approval."

The full story is here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-01/lithgow-festival/4857814?&section=news

Here is the Development Application: http://archive.lithgow.nsw.gov.au/agendas/13/0729/ITEM10.pdf

Written by Donna Upton, Capertee Valley Alliance

A bit of history from 60 years ago-from CVA

I found this on the Capertee Valley Alliance website and thought it was quite interesting

A bit of history from 60 years ago

Sent to us by Bill Holleman, Capertee Valley Alliance member.

Top row right - Bill Holleman
Middle row second from left - Bill's twin sister Marg
Bill's Dad had the local bakery and the teacher is Mrs McCalkine

Can anyone recognise any of the other kids?

Further notes from Bill -

my time at that school was brief but with extended family (six sisters no brothers) things were always busy. only remember one other pupil Salim Shara the girls with horror swim in dam wear, not far from bake house leaches and slippery fish freaked them out.

Mr Mcalpine headmaster would bring wireles into class to update us on RED X round Australia trial, Peugeot car always won.

And they were dismantling shale mining plant down in valley. Anyway as with us all, first impression of school time is always the best, keep up the enormous job you people do there, Pearsons Look out looks great

                                                                                                                                                                      Regards Billy   

Power Station Sale

Energy Australia announced this morning that had entered a purchase agreement for the acquisition of Mt Piper and Wallerawang power stations. The managing director Richard McIndoe said that Delta employees transferring to the new ownership will do so on current terms and conditions and with important guarantees and benefits.The sale price was announced at just $160 million considerably less than what the NSW Government had previously indicated as a likely return on the sale. source - Lithgow Mercury 25 July 2013
Thanks Bruce Upton