Lithgow Environment Group Inc.
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The Lithgow Environment Group seeks to preserve the balance of nature in its region.
This is especially important given the impacts of the area's industrial heritage.
The Lithgow region contains some of the most biodiverse bushland in the Greater Blue Mountains.
Our aim is to promote and protect this rich natural heritage.
The Lithgow Environment Group meets monthly and everyone is welcome to attend.
♦ Pine Dale Open Cut Proposal
♦ Lithgow City Council not objecting Coalpac
♦ Coalpac Mine Cullen Bullen
♦ Mining company to pay for environmental damage
♦ Delta Electricity admits to polluting the Coxs River
♦ Labor opposed to open-cut mining in Cullen Bullen
Colong Foundation – Fact Sheet ‘Hilltop mining in the Gardens of Stone’ -Pine Dale Mine more ...
Lithgow City Council not objecting to the proposal Coalpac Consolidation Project at next Monday's Ordinary Meeting of Council. more ...
Chris Jonkers wins Milo Dunphy Award. more ...
Delta Electricity admits to polluting the
Coxs River and agrees to take action! more ...
juvenile Eastern Water Dragon
Newnes Plateau Banksia
Banksia penicillata
Nymphoides montana
The City of Lithgow (population 21,000) is on the Great Western Highway 150 km west of Sydney, and was named after William Lithgow.
To its east is the World Heritage Blue Mountains National Park and the Wollemi National Park (home of the Jurassic-age Wollemi Pine).
Although founded in 1824, it was not until the western railway line was constructed to Lithgow, in 1869, that the town prospered.
Wallerawang Power Station and its ash dam. Heavy industry in the Lithgow area consists of power stations and coal mines.
The coal-fired power stations are Mount Piper and Wallerawang.
Both power stations get their water from the Cox's River (which flows into Warragamba Dam) and their coal locally.
There are 11 operational coal mines in the Lithgow region which produce over 16 MTPA (million tonnes per annum).