FOSI submission on lease notifications and objections
Below is the text of the FOSI submission dated 28 March 2014 to Department of Natural Resources & Mines. Proposal to change the law relating to mining lease notifications and objections Thank you for the opportunity to make a submission. Mines have such massive impacts on our environment and communities that it is essential that any person or group can stand up and raise public interest issues, including in an open court. We know from bitter experience this proposal, if implemented, will tip the balance too far in favour of the destruction of the environment by mining companies and cause greater community division. It would be a backward step for the State government to change the law that provides public interest safeguards for the community. From our own recent experience on North Stradbroke Island, where special legislation has been used to extinguish pre-existing community rights to object to and challenge the rene...