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Drink red not Lead. Celebrate Mudgee Region food and wine. Join the fight against 4 proposed lead mines in the Area. #LeadFreeMudgee #auspol #nswpol #tourism #agriculture #environment

"The mining companies won't like it if we tell people they're poisoning kids so let's not".The Regulators.😏 #nswpol #auspol #LeadFreeMudgee #Mudgee #EPA

Australian children 'living in poison' with lead in bloodstream at high levels A state government body sat on a report into lead dust that was "poisoning" children for nearly four years and tried to keep its release quiet.

After burying a critical health report in lead mines and children’s blood lead levels for 4 years, the EPA wants the Mudgee community to trust it to protect kids from the Bowdens lead mine proposal.

#RegulatoryCapture
#LeadFreeMudgee

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The proponent and the department say out loud that increased lead levels in children are "minimal" or "acceptable" or can be managed. They've been getting away with this kind of rubbish forever. Not this time it seems. #nswpol #auspol #mudgee #LeadFreeMudgee #mining.

Dead and dying Port Pirie birds and bats exposed to lead at 3,000 times acceptable levels South Australia’s EPA did not open a formal investigation into the source of the lead poisoning, despite referral from the Department of Primary Industries

Wait there's more. EPA refused to investigate lead poisoning near lead mines SA. #LeadFreeMudgee #EPA #nswpol #auspol

No lead producing mines #Mudgee region or anywhere near kids. #LeadFreeMudgee #nswpol #auspol

Bowdens near Mudgee has to show no lead will escape their operations 😏 or a bit of lead in kids' blood is, you know, ok..... #LeadFreeMudgee #nswpol, #auspol

Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show Documents tabled in NSW parliament show state agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlier

The NSW EPA kept a report on impacts of lead mining on children’s blood lead levels for four years from the public while it worried about what the mining companies would think.

#RegulatoryCapture #LeadFreeMudgee

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