The site is zoned C2 (Environmental Conservation) and RU2 (Rural Landscape). Both prohibit this development, which goes directly against the objectives of the zone.

Hard rock quarries create silica dust. More and more evidence is coming to light of the long term health impacts of exposure to silica dust.

The quarry will clear 22 hectares of critically endangered box-gum grassy woodland and 78 hectares of vegetation overall. The proposed site is home to over 300 species of flora and fauna.

Up to two hundred fully laden trucks per day will be entering onto the Monaro Highway or Old Cooma Road.

There is already enough risk on our roads without more heavy trucks trying to merge onto highways and roads. Slow moving trucks will likely increase your commute time.

Blasting from quarries can be felt in homes kilometres away, scare livestock and horses, and cause cracks in walls and windows.

Long hours of crushing noises that could travel to residents.

Quarries require lots of electricity, but no increase in supply is planned. Residents in Royalla already suffer large voltage swings and damage to sensitive pumps and other equipment.

The quarry plans to use groundwater. Residents are concerned that this will impact the water table levels and may cause some bores to run dry.

Waste water from the quarry will discharge into Tuggeranong Creek and then flow though Tuggeranong suburbs to Lake Tuggeranong.