Stop HMA's (Hanson) Bunyip North Quarry
The issue
The Mount Cannibal and District Preservation Group Inc. represents residents opposed to Heidelberg Materials Australia’s proposed Bunyip North Quarry in West Gippsland.
After 20 years, HMA (formerly Hanson Construction Materials) is seeking approval to extract approximately 130 million tonnes of granite from Bunyip North, using blasting, over a potential 70–100-year lifespan.
At full production, the quarry would generate more than 500 additional truck movements every day on roads shared by residents, commuters, farmers and school buses.
And now, HMA’s own Environment Effects Statement (EES) confirms many of the impacts residents have warned about for years.
HMA has acknowledged that the project will cause direct ecological loss, intercept groundwater, contribute to local road pavement damage, and ultimately discharge treated runoff from its overburden stockpile into the local catchment and Cannibal Creek, which ultimately drains towards Western Port — an internationally recognised UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Habitat for an endangered species (the Dwarf Galaxias) has also been identified within the project area.
HMA has even acknowledged that the existing Princes Highway median cannot safely accommodate a quarry haulage vehicle and there are no plans in place to upgrade this intersection.
This enormous industrial project is proposed within a rural and environmentally significant landscape, surrounded by homes, farms and businesses. Less than 400 metres away is Mount Cannibal Flora and Fauna Reserve, with Bunyip State Park only a few kilometres to the north.
HMA proposes extensive mitigation and management measures to address the impacts of the quarry. But mitigation does not make an incompatible location compatible — particularly when those measures may need to work effectively for up to a century.
Bunyip North is the wrong location for a quarry of this scale, intensity and duration.
We are asking you to stand with our community, our environment and our future.
Sign this petition and say NO to the proposed Bunyip North Quarry.
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The issue
The Mount Cannibal and District Preservation Group Inc. represents residents opposed to Heidelberg Materials Australia’s proposed Bunyip North Quarry in West Gippsland.
After 20 years, HMA (formerly Hanson Construction Materials) is seeking approval to extract approximately 130 million tonnes of granite from Bunyip North, using blasting, over a potential 70–100-year lifespan.
At full production, the quarry would generate more than 500 additional truck movements every day on roads shared by residents, commuters, farmers and school buses.
And now, HMA’s own Environment Effects Statement (EES) confirms many of the impacts residents have warned about for years.
HMA has acknowledged that the project will cause direct ecological loss, intercept groundwater, contribute to local road pavement damage, and ultimately discharge treated runoff from its overburden stockpile into the local catchment and Cannibal Creek, which ultimately drains towards Western Port — an internationally recognised UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Habitat for an endangered species (the Dwarf Galaxias) has also been identified within the project area.
HMA has even acknowledged that the existing Princes Highway median cannot safely accommodate a quarry haulage vehicle and there are no plans in place to upgrade this intersection.
This enormous industrial project is proposed within a rural and environmentally significant landscape, surrounded by homes, farms and businesses. Less than 400 metres away is Mount Cannibal Flora and Fauna Reserve, with Bunyip State Park only a few kilometres to the north.
HMA proposes extensive mitigation and management measures to address the impacts of the quarry. But mitigation does not make an incompatible location compatible — particularly when those measures may need to work effectively for up to a century.
Bunyip North is the wrong location for a quarry of this scale, intensity and duration.
We are asking you to stand with our community, our environment and our future.
Sign this petition and say NO to the proposed Bunyip North Quarry.
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Petition created on 16 March 2017