A massive mine's environmental bond was slashed. FOI documents show NT bureaucrats wanted to go further

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Documents released under Freedom of Information reveal the Northern Territory government's mining department proposed an even bigger reduction of a massive lead and zinc mine's environmental security bond before it was controversially slashed last year.

But documents released to the ABC under Freedom of Information laws reveal the Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade calculated an even lower bond at $355 million.

The $120 million reduction is currently being challenged in a civil lawsuit making its way through the NT Supreme Court. The legal action, launched by the Environmental Defenders Office on behalf of the ECNT and traditional owners from a community on the mine’s outskirts, Borroloola, alleges Ms Manison failed to set a bond in accordance with the level of environmental disturbance.

“We have a situation here where the mining department, DITT, is not just the environmental regulator of the industry but also promotes the industry, and that creates perceptions of a fundamental conflict of interest that must be resolved.”The Northern Territory government said the higher bond figure was verified by an outside consultancy before it was accepted by Ms Manison.

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Average tax paying citizen needs council approval to chop down a single tree.. look at what the greedy scumbag miners do to the land.

Wtf

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Privatise the profits, socialise the losses. Again.

'Site rehabilitation and monitoring are widely expected to take hundreds of years after mining operations cease.'

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