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Russell Vale colliery has closed down now due to mismanagement. Let’s hope it stays shut, thankyou for this video

I worked at otford frm I kno the creek n land around n i notice things. Thank you for backing up my suspiscions

Great story and memories made. Quite a rise in water levels from the start on the Collingwood! Beautifully edited, thanks for sharing.

Great edit, what an epic adventure

Is it really a problem considering it's all natural contamination that comes from nature? Please don't jump down my throat, I'm trying to educate myself. Plus, what is the result of the contamination the water falls and everything around it still looks beautiful, I live in katoomba and i have not seen anything wrong.

Very interesting documentary James. Thanks for sharing this with us! We had a similar issue in the Mountains with a colliery leading into the headwaters of the Wollangambe river.

😆 Money well spent

Excellent mate

Beautifully done

This is mental. Even deep in nature we can still be exposed to pollution.

nice vid mate i love the aussie rodeo culture its something else.

Excellent documentary. As a local resident of over 33 years, there has been a constant "war" going on regarding the health of the Hacking. Developers wanting to open housing estates in the Hacking Catchment at Helensburgh, light industrial to general industrial sanctioned by Wollongong City Council without any public consultation in changing to that later zone. When the Hacking Catchment headwaters at Helensburgh were voted on to change from a 7D Hacking River Zone to E2 Environmental Protection, the Administrators of the then found corrupt Council, had one of them, a former planning head for the NSW Government, who favoured development at Helensburgh in those catchment areas, supported AGAIN those proposed developments!! So that person supported spot zoning even after this area was publicly endorsed by a large margin to be E2 (now C2)....Two Councillors who were in the next Council supported the Light Industrial in the middle of the Hacking Catchment! One had a conflict of interest saying at a Council meeting they had been doing business with one of the industries there for 36 years!!! This made no difference to the Council!! These two councillors have long since departed, leaving this mess behind. So let's not forget too, that General Industrial exists in the Hacking River Catchment at Helensburgh.

This would be no exception, and it is disgraceful the failure in duty of care by politicians, miners and the company, shareholders who live off the profits of this failure. Coal mining is not the only issue, we have cotton farmers using intense chemical application and it ends up in the water ways. Right under Scomo's nose and he had the nerve to take a lump of coal into parliament and act as if it has no harmful side effects in the digging and burning for electricity. They should dock his PM retirement fund for the disgusting failure and put it towards cleaning this mess.

Govt's in Australia have turned into weak spinless backbone gits who's rather Hover around a city news cameras than address wildlife environment issues Mining is good for australia but mines left to cause environmental damage is unjustified if a ship looses oil in the sea they fix why not the Mines ? out sight out mind i guess Fook if i know if that Asbestos mine above WA is still blowing dust across OZ cough cough there's piles of it left to blow in the wind 50 years L8tr ? Imagine if the Govt had Ballz to build a huge pipe from the Qld flooded areas down south just imagine no more drought issues & continuous farming of food crops Naaaaaaaaaaaah these wanka's would rather sit it unimportant meetings about new furniture for the office than go out in a ute & take a decent look themselves city folk no idea what goes on here

We visit that area a lot and have seen the outfall of mining. Great job with what you have achieved.

What i want to know is are there yowies still living there simple question people looking forward to anser nunal nunal

Makes me wonder what the water would be like off captains flat mine lead rich probably and theres many exposed sources near water bottom of the dam at corin dam to ya right a pocket of exposed lead zinc. rock flat creek just out of cooma a smelly sulphide mine shaft on a hill right next to the stream cowra creek near peak view nsw might be leaking into the upper Murray good work everyone thanks for your efforts

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Thank you to the team that identified the problem and worked with the community to fix it. A great job. A great video too.

As the seasons come and go this creek dries up so stop talking crap

Thanks to those of you that care for the environment !

TLDW

Please put units on your water quality reporting. Otherwise they are just meaningless numbers. Which is a shame given the high quality of the video.

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Surface mining is equally harmful to nature of vegetation animals insects creatures within mine limit for ever.

Mining for any mineral and its extraction is never a clean industry.but without mineral we cannot survive. So damaging nature should be made minimum.

Thank you for your commitment to this issue. So appreciated.

Clean water won’t be accepted by the Freemasons,, they want chemicals added to drinking waters to help pharmaceuticals companies Mining is actually derived from the evil fallen angels , teaching humans how to obtain metals , to then build weapons to encourage humans to war with each other ,,, it still continues today ,,

Of course. Because who can stand in the way when there's a dollar to be made? I mean they even put a fucking uranium mine in the middle of Kakadu, a wold heritage area. Humans are a plague on this earth

14:05 ppb? ppm? mph? knots? Polish the water to extract and sel ..er..um..re-cycle the Ni and Zn?

I'd love for you guys to check the water quality around the hunter valley area... It's a crying shame, the rivers that are still actually flowing are disgracefull. God bless and keep up the good work.

Nice one I am so glad Western Sydney university discovered this problem and with their evidence conservationists and others got some action taken to help improve the crimes that were and are being committed here . Great documentary . thanks everyone who was involved with this doccumentary and the people who tyook action to bring this environmental vandalism to the authorities attention

Regulators in Australia (at least in financial industry) do their job and go home - just enough. From time to time their scrutiny and due process is questioned and they make it their job to come up with feasible, viable answers. In other words, bum covering. There's a lot of that in Australia. Here it seems like some of the usual. It's sad and a shame that regulators let the mining industry get away with it. Another problem in Australia is that it's a country where publicly elected political parties assume power, but are largely funded by private interests, such as banks and miners, who seem to get away with defrauding Australian people with stunts like this. The gatekeepers are not asleep, they just don't care to bite the hand that feeds them. My opinion.

Remarkable job guys & community. Thank you.

Also be interested to hear the effects of mining that's happening in the edges of Marrangaroo NP as it sits so close to the Cox's River.

I’m not surprised at all. Our government has beeen giving back handers to mining companies for a very long time. I saw nothing. I didn’t know about that. Not on my watch. You hear it all but it’s all hot air and bs. The government lies to make life better for themselves. Nobody else

It's nice to know that your work is achieving a positive outcome. It is also good that the coal mine is actually doing something about it and putting place amendments that you guys have brought to the EPA's attention. Well done. Let's hope that the government can allocate funds to address the canyon coal mine destroying the surrounding ecosystem by allowing toxic minerals to flow loose into the surrounding creek.

This is a very informative and important documentary. Thank you for sharing and producing. I would like to ask if you guys have done any research about mining in Bungonia national park. I believe it is a similar case since the mine is right on top of bungonia creek and the water from the creek flows down to Shoalhaven River.

If only mines there got expansions and were running full swing, because they'd be subject to modern regulations and safeguards and maybe then young people would have opportunities and aspirations instead of shit retail jobs and getting in trouble with the police. A problem brought to us by the whinging boomers, that are all to happy to use products from mining in their daily lives, and whinge about it left right and centre.

What is “woddah” they keep mentioning? And why do all these aussies mention it when they’re discussing the water?

The Australian need to get their mining companies under control. Even outside Australia they are causing destruction and then walk away and say its not their problem.

At the 2mins and 10 sec, you said you get iron, manganese , and aluminium, where can the aluminium possible come from, aluminium is man made, I believe your talking of chemtrails!

Heavy metals are becoming more valuable, reclaim them.

It took people power to carry out investigations and telling the EPA to do something, congratulations on UWS and the residents, Corporations should be ashamed.

Unbelievably one sided presentation equating mine operation from 100 years ago with operating procedures today. Todays mine operators must comply with some of the toughest environmental standards in the world. If you believe everything presented in this video you are a long way from being objective.

Better get use to it, a vote for YES has vast repercussions including opening to form a republic, which In turn we lose our rites. We will be signing over our ownership and rites. Vote NO, google it

Great video about the affects mining has on our country and environment. Honestly I knew the Hawksbury/Nepean was polluted but I never thought levels were so high. Mining is part of our life but they seriously need to do more to minimise the impacts.

Subsidence of rock strata and subsequent draining of swamps and alteration of stream flows a major issue of longwall mining. Not a case of out of sight, out of mind!

frightningly sad that humans can and do destroy mother natures most beautiful wonders.