Residents Meeting at Wundowie Community Hall

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Published: Monday, 27 October 2014 22:18

AHMAG would like to thank the 50 residents of Wundowie and Wooroloo who attended the Residents meeting held in the Wundowie Community Hall on Saturday the 25th of October.

It was a great turn out given the short notice that was given and when the question was asked as to whom supported mining in our back yard, there was a resounding 95% No vote from within the hall.

We know there will always be people, who believe that mining will bring jobs and people to the area and one attendee mentioned that the mine will attract more families to Wundowie and children will attend the school, we respect those views, but we believe that Land subdivisions like the new Mauravillo Estate, along with the land opposite that has also been re -zoned for subdivision, will bring families and kids to attend the Wundowie school, but if both the Fortuna and Felicitas mine get up and running in the next couple of years, the impact on that new estate will be devastating, as it will be almost surrounded by open cut bauxite mining.

That’s why we believe the negative impact on all of our lifestyles and property values will well and truly out way any perceived benefits....

AHMAG would once again like to point out, that like most people in our communities, our group IS NOT ANTI - MINING, we just do not want mining in our back yard and we feel pretty confident that Bill Moss the CEO of BAJV and Peter Canterbury the CEO of BRL will not be selling their properties any time soon to move into the Mauravillo Estate to be surrounded by both the Fortuna and Felicitas Resource.

We have spoken to a number of FIFO workers in our community that all say the same thing: “We go away to work on a mine site because that’s where the BIG money is and you can’t earn that type of money around here and we rely on mining for our income. The reason we purchased our properties in this area is because we are in the country, yet close to the city and there is no mining!!!. We do not want mining in our kids back yard”.

Enough Said

AHMAG