This meeting of concerned citizens calls on the Government to:

a) Ensure that the Metropolitan and Woronora Special Area Catchments, and other drinking water catchments are preserved so that the ability of these areas to collect and transmit water is not affected by mining operations, and under no circumstances would mining operations be allowed to cause surface cracking in these precious catchments;

b) Establish underground mining prohibition areas of one kilometre around streams, upland swamps and water supply structures and aboriginal heritage areas, and mining protection zones for other vulnerable areas like cliffs and rock overhangs, and ensure that these controls to be made mandatory for all current, as well as future, underground coal mining operations.

c) Ensure effective pollution licensing for underground mines in drinking water catchments under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act so that companies are heavily prosecuted for causing any damage to streams and water catchments, and particularly for causing any surface cracking; and

d) Develop a Protection of the Environment Policy (PEP) under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 that makes drinking water catchment preservation the primary consideration for mining operations in these areas.