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The Tasmanian Minerals and Energy Council director Aaron Brannigan says he supports Mineral Policy Institute call for a national inquiry into mine site rehabilitation and mine closure practices.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, environmental-management, mining-environmental-issues, st-helens-7216
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Rick Watsford is Australian managing director of miner MMG, and is is looking for new levels of performance from one of the Tasmania's oldest mines at Rosebery.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, environmental-management, mining-environmental-issues, st-helens-7216, rosebery-7470
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Protesters rallying against a controversial Upper Hunter mine expansion slam the arrest of two Aboriginal elders who have been charged with resisting arrest.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, bulga-2330
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| UpdatedFew countries in the region have a back story with the same peaks and troughs as Nauru - an island that became one of the world's wealthiest nations per capita, only to lose much of those riches through mismanagement and corruption.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, mineral-sands, business-economics-and-finance, pacific, nauru
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| UpdatedElevated levels of ammonia are found in waterways near Clive Palmer's north Queensland nickel refinery for the second time this year.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, environmental-impact, regional-development, state-parliament, clive-palmer, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedPeter Andrews says he is squatting at his Hunter Valley property until its significance is recognised by the mining company and state and federal governments.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, bylong-2849, newcastle-2300, muswellbrook-2333, mudgee-2850
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| UpdatedGlobal mining giant Rio Tinto wants to sell its mothballed Blair Athol mine near Clermont in central Queensland to junior miner TerraCom for just $1.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, states-and-territories, clermont-4721, qld, australia
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A push by WA Labor to ban fracking in the South West is described as pre-emptive and hypocritical, with Environment Minister Albert Jacob saying there are currently no such projects being considered by the Government.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, environmental-impact, environment, rural, wa
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| UpdatedA well-known farmer has said goodbye to an iconic property in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, made famous for its revolutionary landcare practices.
Topics: environmentally-sustainable-business, environmental-impact, mining-environmental-issues, environmental-management, coal, sustainable-and-alternative-farming, bylong-2849, muswellbrook-2333, denman-2328, orange-2800, mudgee-2850
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| UpdatedA close observer of Bougainville politics and society says Rio Tinto's exit from island could endanger relations between the Bougainville and PNG governments.
Topics: mining-industry, mining-environmental-issues, world-politics, pacific, papua-new-guinea, bougainville
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government says its multi-million-dollar efforts to protect the Great Barrier Reef will not be undermined by mining applications on a Cape York cattle station.
Topics: rural, mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, environment, mining-industry, environmental-health, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmental-policy, environment-education, lakeland-4871, cooktown-4895, qld
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Liquidator PPB Advisory is finalising a contract to sell most of the assets of troubled oil and gas company Linc Energy, but is not revealing the buyer.
Topics: company-news, oil-and-gas, mining-environmental-issues, coal, chinchilla-4413, toowoomba-4350
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Mining industry plans to lobby new senate to revisit 'one-stop shop' environmental approvals process.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, environmental-policy, federal-government, federal-parliament, federal---state-issues, federal-elections, mining-industry, perth-6000
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Kayne Moyle, Chamber Minerals Energy WA, plans to lobby new Senate to pass 'one-stop-shop' environmental approvals legislation to give state governments greater oversight.
Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, federal-elections, federal---state-issues, federal-parliament, mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, perth-6000
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Topics: rural, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, water, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mataranka-0852
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Topics: rural, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, water, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mataranka-0852
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| UpdatedA major stoush is brewing over the rights to explore for gas on Indigenous land in the Northern Territory's Roper region, with the potential for legal action against the Northern Land Council.
Topics: rural, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, water, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mataranka-0852
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Topics: rural, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, water, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mataranka-0852
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Traditional Owners, pastoralists, tourism operators and the Northern Land Council's Joe Morrison speak about fracking in the Roper region. Read more
Topics: rural, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, water, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, mataranka-0852
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A resources company has begun a pre-feasibility study into reviving a magnesite mine in the Northern Territory and exporting material through Darwin port.
Topics: rural, mining-industry, mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, dairy-production, environmental-technology, batchelor-0845
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The land council representing Groote Eylandt's traditional land owners signs an agreement with GEMCO to massively extend its existing manganese mine.
Topics: industry, mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, mining-environmental-issues, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt
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| UpdatedQueensland's "hamstrung" Land Court should be given the power to make final decisions on mining projects to avoid wasting time and money, the State Government is told.
Topics: courts-and-trials, land-clearing, mining-environmental-issues, federal---state-issues, qld, toowoomba-4350
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The Horsham Council has rejected an application by mining company Iluka Resources to continue dumping low-level radioactive waste at a site in western Victoria.
Topics: rural, recycling-and-waste-management, mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, horsham-3400, douglas-3401
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An independent review raises serious questions about the system for registering people and companies for sensitive environmental activities in Queensland.
Topics: environmental-management, environment, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, mining-environmental-issues, environmental-policy, qld
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| UpdatedA Maules Creek farmer says his family's life has been turned upside down since the NSW Government approved an open-cut coal mine next door to his property.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, boggabri-2382, nsw