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To: Frank Calabria, CEO Origin Energy
Save Myuna Colliery Jobs!
The Eraring power station will operate until 2029, supplying more than 20% of NSW’s electricity.
Myuna Colliery exists solely to supply coal to Eraring and employs 300 local workers with 1300 supply chain jobs also dependent on it. Despite this, Origin Energy refuses to commit to a long-term coal supply contract.
If Origin does not purchase coal from Myuna, the mine must close, putting 300 people out of work and causing serious flow-on impacts for thousands of workers and businesses across Lake Macquarie. This is not an inevitable result of the energy transition. It is a commercial decision. Origin must secure a long-term coal supply agreement with Myuna for as long as Eraring operates.
Myuna Colliery exists solely to supply coal to Eraring and employs 300 local workers with 1300 supply chain jobs also dependent on it. Despite this, Origin Energy refuses to commit to a long-term coal supply contract.
If Origin does not purchase coal from Myuna, the mine must close, putting 300 people out of work and causing serious flow-on impacts for thousands of workers and businesses across Lake Macquarie. This is not an inevitable result of the energy transition. It is a commercial decision. Origin must secure a long-term coal supply agreement with Myuna for as long as Eraring operates.
Why is this important?
Myuna workers are local people with mortgages, children in local schools, and deep ties to the Lake Macquarie community. The mine supports not just 300 direct jobs, but thousands of others including contractors, transport workers, small businesses, and services that rely on stable, well-paid work in the region. When a major employer like Myuna closes, the damage does not stop at the gate. It flows through families, communities, and the local economy.
Workers are being asked to live with uncertainty while Origin continues to profit from running Eraring, a power station that was once publicly owned and now supplies essential electricity to NSW. A just transition means planning, certainty, and fairness, not silence and delay. Communities like ours deserve better.