Ann: Bowdens Silver Project Appeal Proceedings Outcome, page-152

And yet you and the local activist group that you head up go all silent on the matter that even your own consultant identified lead dust from lead paint in the ceiling of the local primary school. Somehow your mantra of: "There is no safe level of lead" is ignored when it comes to being near the developing brains of kids from your community. So instead of trying to close down the school, you focus your energy on trying to stop the mine and continually and knowingly misrepresent it as a 'lead mine' rather than be honest and acknowledge that lead is just a minor, minor economic by-product of mining silver - it is a silver mine. Maybe you should be grateful that SVL will be removing all those tonnes of lead from your local environment (which naturally are present all around you in the soil, dust, locally grown food and in the river) and will be taking it to someone else's backyard in the processing and sale of it.