Bathurst strikes deal with enviro group
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Coal developer Bathurst Resources has reached an agreement with the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Incorporated (Forest & Bird), over the Escarpment project planned for the Mount Rochfort Conservation Area on the Dennison Plateau on the West Coast of the country.
Forest & Bird has been the principal appellant in various appeals against the environmental consent for the Escarpment coal project, and have also been party to all appeals relating to a separate climate change declaration process.
Bathurst MD Hamish Bohannan said on Tuesday that the agreement with Forest & Bird was a significant milestone for the Escarpment project, and gave Bathurst increased certainty.
He added that the company now had a much greater level of confidence around being able to start mining activities as soon as possible.
Under the agreement, Forest & Bird has agreed not to appeal the Environmental Court’s final consent decision for the Escarpment project, while Bathurst had agreed not to conduct opencast mining in the area defined as the Denniston Permanent Protection Area.
Bohannan pointed out that this had already been proposed by the company as part of its Environmental Court process.
He added that the company was continuing to work with the Department of Conservation, Iwi and local councils to process the management plans required before production activities at Escarpment could start.
The Escarpment project forms part of the greater Buller coal project.
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