Aware it is facing a David and Goliath battle to have Boral’s sand mining modification at Dunmore reversed, Friends of Minnamurra River (FOMR) have released some detail of the campaign they intent to launch in mid-April.

“The campaign will detail serious defects and omissions, as well as legal and administrative questions, that FOMR has found in the administrative process and assessment by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE),” says the group’s Chair, Will Chyra.

A two member NSW Government-appointed Independent Planning Commission (IPC) late last year approved the two new sand mining pits on the eastern side of the highway on assessment advice from DPIE.

“When we launch the FOMR campaign and show all that was wrong with the entire process leading to the IPC’s decision to approve the two mining pits, right in the middle of some of the rarest and most sensitive ecosystems on the planet, people will ask ‘how can that happen’ and ‘will a government really allow that environmental destruction to happen’,” says Chyra.

FOMR has found there are regulations currently in existence which will allow the relevant NSW Government ministers to stop the mines.

The FOMR campaign will also reveal why Federal Government intervention to stop the sand mines is possible.

He invites people to add to the $15,000 already been raised for a fighting fund at gofundme.com