"Current mining proposals will mean more than half the entire length of Stockton Bight will be given over to mining with only scraps left for the promised National Park."  Doug Lithgow President of Parks and Playgrounds Movement

Parks and Playgrounds Movement appeals to the Premier set the boundaries for the promised National Park now as a matter of absolute urgency.

More than half the length of Stockton Bight will be given over to mineral sands mining and with other mining and extraction operations only scraps of this great natural wonder will be left.

The current mining proposal: is too large an area of Stockton Bight. (Half the length of the Bight) threatens irreversible damage to the geomorphology of the nationally significant dune system. will encroach on the unique reversing dune field north of Lavis Lane which is to be included in the promised Stockton Bight National Park will lock Council into a mining regime that is far too long into the future and without review.
   
The EIS Oct 1995 (BHP Titanium Minerals P/L) was for a discrete mining project only taking up two kilometres of the Bight and was not intended to be extended to the north. The current proposal will stretch over half the length of Stockton Bight.

The Mining Reserves Nos. 3050 to 3053 covering the WWII firing range prevented any mining to the north of the 1995 BHP proposal.

These reserves were recently revoked and should be reinstated because there has been no examination of the danger of unexploded ordinance in the reserve areas not affected by mining.

The sustainable future for Port Stephens is tourism, provided we are able to preserve our unique environmental heritage such as at Stockton Bight.  

Mining cannot be regarded as a sustainable future and must be contained.

We have asked Port Stephens Councillors to restrict the mineral sands mining to the southern extension area of the proposal and that the central extension only be considered after there has been a proper examination of the Mining Reserves Nos. 3050 to 3053.

Stockton Bight is the most dramatic sand dune coastal landscape in NSW. This great natural gift should not be allowed to be frittered away by a do nothing Government.