Mudgee District Environment Group
Friday 19 April at 11am Community Park Church St Mudgee (next to Shell Servo, parking out back) Speakers: Jacqui Mumford, CEO Nature Conservation Council of NSW Mick Boller, Mudgee Region Action Group Bev Smiles, Mudgee Coal Alert The NSW Government is reviewing the state Koala Strategy. Mudgee Region has a […]
Sunday 11th February 2pm – 4pm General meeting – visitors welcome Venue: Lions Shed, Mudgee Showground – entry via Nicholson St, then first turn right.
In late November 2023 the NSW Government passed new legislation to better manage carbon emissions into the future. MDEG looks forward to more effective action on climate change More information here. The Act legislates: guiding principles for action to address climate change that consider the impacts, opportunities and need for […]
Mudgee District Environment Group (MDEG) and Rylstone District Environment Society (RDES) are inviting you to a free, community picnic on Saturday, October 21, to celebrate the great Australian outdoors. The picnic will be held at the peaceful Putta Bucca Wetlands, 10.30am-1.30pm. BYO everything. All welcome! “Taking time out to sit […]
Mudgee District Environment Group has slammed the Glencore Ulan Coal Mine assessment of water impacts from the sixth proposed extension of mining under the Great Dividing Range at Ulan, north of Mudgee. The group has written to the NSW Planning Minister, Paul Scully, outlining key issues that have not been […]
Mudgee District Environment Group is launching the Mudgee Coal Alert campaign today to notify the community and decision-makers about plans to continue expanding coal production in the Mudgee Region beyond the 2030s. The three large multinational corporations operating in the Mudgee area: Glencore, Yancoal and Peabody Energy all have expansion […]
The Drip A Study of Visitor Attitudes To ascertain community sentiment on visitor attitudes to The Drip gorge, MDEG conducted a study interviewing members of the public who were visiting to The Drip as a stakeholder group in February 2022. These people have experienced and witnessed The Drip, have no […]
Thursday 19th May 2022 Two workshops – Learn more about local flora, and how to collect and propagate its seed AND Our native fauna, its habitat needs and the role artificial hollows might play. Cox’s Creek Road. 9.30am – 12.00pm Collect native seed, prepare, store and get tips on germination. […]
‘ No New Coal’ Rally at Dep Premier’s office (Paul Toole) MDEG was represented at this rally which was held Tuesday 27th April 2022. The rally was well reported in the media – Commercial radio, ABC news, ABC Country Hour, Western Advocate, Mudgee Guardian, Prime TV. Some of the media, […]
CWO REZ Grid Transmission – as at April 2022 Good news! The revised EnergyCo study corridor avoids Hands on Rock and the vegetation along Ulan Road. Congratulations and well done to MDEG hard-working member Amanda and all involved in the survey and report writing! Our report claiming that there was […]