Coal & Allied Community Newsletter Singleton edition December 2012

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Coal & Allied celebrates partnerships
In early November Coal & Allied
joined with some of its community
partners, council members, local
businesses, school Principals and
media to celebrate the programmes
that took place this year to benefit the
local community.
Attendees had the opportunity
to enjoy the beautiful gardens and
chapel at the picturesque Sacred
Spaces, Convent of Mercy venue
in Singleton. With St Catherine’s
Catholic College students entertaining
attendees, delicious catering prepared
by Singleton High School students and
Singleton Apex organising a beverage
service, the evening was a great
opportunity to reflect on a busy and
successful year of partnerships.
Rio Tinto Energy Vice President
External Relations Fiona Nicholls said:
“I’d like to thank all our community
partners for their hard work in
running their programmes, which
is helping build a strong future for
our region. This year to date, more
than 170 local projects have been
supported through our long term
community investment programme.
We’re proud to continue partnering
with a wide range of groups who share
our values and goals to help build
sustainable and robust communities
in the Hunter Valley.
“Our employees have also been playing an active role in
their local communities, embracing events and fundraising
activities and committing almost 1600 hours to a diverse
range of charities and community groups since July last year.”
New community
response officers
Three community response officers
are now working at Mount Thorley
Warkworth to provide community
members with a line of communication
to the operations team, particularly
during the night and on weekends.
In addition to providing a timely
response to community concerns
during non-work hours, their role
includes on and off site inspections,
capturing and communicating
operational changes in response to
weather conditions and community
feedback and calls to our Community
Complaints Hotline. They will also suggest
continuous improvement ideas to further
improve environmental performance.
Pictured (l-r): Our new community response officers - Chris Quinn, Ian Forbes and Kurt Sorensen.
For more information about Coal & Allied’s
operations or activities in your local community:
Visit our shopfronts:
127 John Street, Singleton
19 Bridge Street, Muswellbrook
Call:
Coal & Allied Information Line
1800 727 745 (freecall)
Community Complaints Hotline
1800 656 892 (freecall)
Email:
cnacommunityrelations@riotinto.com
Visit:
www.riotintocoalaustralia.com.au
Coal & Allied Industries Limited
123 Albert Street
Brisbane 4000 Australia
Mount Thorley Warkworth
Community Consultative Committee
A new Community Consultation Committee is
being established for Mount Thorley Warkworth
to comply with the conditions of the Warkworth
Extension Project. Dr Col Gellatly AO was
appointed as the new independent Chair in
August and the NSW Department of Planning
and Infrastructure (DoPI) has endorsed
this appointment.
We welcome the wealth of experience Dr
Gellatly will bring to the committee from
his distinguished career in government,
which included serving as the State’s most
senior executive as Director General of the
Premier’s Department.
Applications for voluntary community
representatives on new CCC closed in October and
have been directed to the Department of Planning
and Infrastructure (DoPI) through Dr Gellatly. The
names and contact information for these new
members will be made available shortly.
Hunter Valley Operations
Community Consultative Committee
Cr Hollee Jenkins 0418 595 484
Gail Hunter 0419 247 151
Jeffrey Neal 0427 019 432
Charlie Shearer 6572 1701
Ian Beal 6572 3596
Dr Neville Hodkinson
Gail Easton 0478 069 912
Coal & Allied representatives
Tom Lukeman 6570 0273
Paul Ernst 6570 0273
Andrew Speechly 6570 0497
Karen Peters 6570 0376
Jennifer Bowcock 6549 0506
Freecall 1800 727 745 | 127 John Street Singleton | 19 Bridge Street Muswellbrook | www.riotintocoalaustralia.com.au