The Bob Brown Foundation says it is 'taking urgent legal advice' following Tasmania's Resources Minister approving a contentious lease along an access road to the site of a proposed tailings dam.
Conservation group the Bob Brown Foundation says it is taking "urgent legal advice" about a lease granted to MMG along an access road on Tasmania's west coast near where the mining company wants to develop a heavy metals tailings dam.
It is the second time Mr Barnett has granted the Chinese-owned company, which owns a metals mine at Rosebery, a lease along Helilog Road.He said the new application was assessed by Mineral Resources Tasmania, and the state's mines director recommended it be approved.Environmentalists say the purpose of the lease is to stop protesters accessing the planned site of a new tailings dam.
"The [mines] director advised that the lease would enable the land to be used to enable the applicant to access its existing lease at South Marionoak and that it would also enable work associated with mining at the South Marionoak site to be carried out." The new application and subsequent approval have not allayed the concerns of the Bob Brown Foundation.
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