Glencore receives planning approval for NSW coal optimisation project
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Mining giant Glencore has welcomed a decision by the New South Wales Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) to approve the Bulga optimisation project.
The Bulga coal project currently produces at a rate of six-million tonnes a year from an opencut operation, although under the current allowance, the mine could extract some 12.2-million tonnes run-of-mine coal a year.
The optimisation project would allow operations at Bulga to continue until 2035, largely within the mine’s existing footprint, with the project maintaining its current production level of six-million tonnes of saleable coal a year.
The PAC this week backed the Bulga optimisation project, saying that it would have a relatively minor impact on the environment, if recommendations made by the PAC were implemented.
Glencore said on Tuesday that the PAC’s approval was a positive endorsement for the company’s inclusive planning process and comprehensive consultation with the affected communities.
Glencore Australia’s head of coal, Ian Cribb, said the approval was the result of significant planning, listening and working cooperatively with the community, as well as acting on concerns and issues raised.
“Since planning for the project began in 2011, Glencore incorporated a number of major changes into the project to minimise impacts as a result of feedback from extensive consultation with over 400 stakeholders from the local community and around the region,” Cribb said.
These consultations resulted in a modification of the mine plan to avoid the relocation of a public road and the construction of a purpose-built bund around the operations to lower noise impacts.
Cribb said that the project changes were in addition to a number of existing initiatives introduced at the Bulga mine to better manage impacts and reduce noise from the existing operations.
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