Significantly the finding by the Commission, which endorsed the previous verdict in the Land and Environment Court, cited uncertainty over health risks.  

‘Better safe than sorry’ was the thinking after evidence that the technology could not guarantee management of emissions or subsequent impacts on health or the environment.

So where to now for Mt Piper and any future role in the trucking of thousands of tonnes of waste every week over the Mountains?

And where is the public meeting on the issue offered to Lithgow Council by Energy Australia back in April?

Someone is clearly dragging the chain in finally airing this vexed issue in a public arena.

BY the time this edition hits the street Lithgow Council will have pondered whether to relocate Marjorie ‘The Lithgow Flash’ to a more fittingly appropriate location in that brand new but not so grand Cook Plaza.

Maybe Marge’s relocation would trigger the start of further change; she is, after all, the only appealing feature on a bleak concrete landscape.

THERE are kangaroos aplenty around Lithgow’s QE Park but don’t blame Skippy for ALL of the digging  in the well maintained lawns; kangaroos don’t carry metal detectors and trowels.

Some new bans (suitably enforced of course) might be in order for this recurring problem.

STILL around QE Park  and the image of our proudly touted city showplace would be considerably enhanced  by replacing that very tired old bitumen section adjoining the footpath along the busy Main Street frontage.

The broken and potholed surface hasn’t been refreshed in years and is not only ugly it’s also an obvious threat to public safety.

WHEN at least the calendar tells us winter ’18 is officially over and we shiver into springtime it’s bound to have recalibrated the record books for night time thermometer trauma. 

Already we’ve seen some of the coldest nights in at least 18 years so rug up and hang on - Spring really is on the way.

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