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Industry insider warns taxpayers may foot bill for mine rehabilitation unless government, industry step up Landline By the National Reporting Team’s Lisa Main and Dominique Schwartz Updated 19 Sep 2015, 3:35pmSat 19 Sep 2015, 3:35pm Photo: Miners will no longer … Continued

SA’s Copper Strategy is fundamentally flawed, argues YPLOG.  It poses a major risk to YP agriculture because it assumes mining has the right to access any land within SA irrespective of the harm caused to pre-existing farmland.   For more read … Continued

SA Government’s Multiple Land Use Framework is part of a push by Government to free up agricultural land for mining, says YPLOG. If implemented, the damage to YP’s thriving agricultural industry will be considerable.   The only beneficiary will be the … Continued

Friday, December 18, 2015 A response to the State Government document entitled South Australian Multiple Land Use Framework Livestock SA own a very large proportion of both freehold and perpetual lease land in the State. They are an importantly productive … Continued

Industry insider warns taxpayers may foot bill for mine rehabilitation unless Government, industry step up LANDLINE BY THE NATIONAL REPORTING TEAM’S LISA MAIN AND DOMINIQUE SCHWARTZABOUT 2 HOURS AGO Email Facebook Twitter PHOTO When companies apply for mine approval they … Continued

YORKE Peninsula landowners say the local community is still in the dark after the state government’s decision to grant Rex Minerals an extension for its submission of the Program for Environmental Protection and Rehabilitation. Rex announced the 12-month extension on … Continued

 ON THE LAND… For Pine Point farmers Sue and Brenton Davey, any step toward the protection of prime agricultural land would be a positive move and enable them to confidently plan for the future. FAMILY First plans to draw up … Continued

THE State Government has given Rex Minerals 12 more months to submit environmental and social management plans for its Hillside project on the Yorke Peninsula. Rex’s management will use the time to up its community engagement, with a number of … Continued

YORKE PENINSULA LAND OWNERS GROUP Q & A:  Who will fund the River Murray pipeline extension from Port Wakefield to the Hillside mine? In July 2015, at the request of YPLOG, the Member for Goyder, Steven Griffiths, wrote to the … Continued

QUESTIONS THAT STILL NEED TO BE ANSWERED  Rex Minerals’ Extended Feasibility Study (EFS) and new mine plan  On 25th May 2015, Rex Minerals put out a short ASX and Media Release that claimed to summarise key findings from its Extended … Continued