Barbara Creecy gives go-ahead to mine on Western Cape beaches
The minister dismissed most of the appeals against last year’s approval of expanded beach mining operations north of the Olifants River
Environment, forestry and fisheries minister Barbara Creecy has dismissed most of the appeals against last year’s approval of vastly expanded beach mining operations on the West Coast, north of the Olifants River.
In her 35-page decision, released on March 26, Creecy agreed with just two concerns raised in one of the four appeals against the government’s approval of the controversial proposed expansion by an Australian-owned mining company. She has ordered two changes to the conditions of approval for the project — one of which is environmentally significant but neither will restrict the extent of the planned new mining...
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