Environmental organisation the Federation for a Sustainable Environment CEO Mariette Liefferink stresses that the organisation has identified and engaged with government to address loopholes in the current closure requirements of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA), which will be affected by the final National Mine Closure Strategy draft… Read the full article here or download it below.
Organisation stresses need for long-term AMD solution | Mining Weekly
FSE CEO Mariette Liefferink says failure to implement such a solution may lead to an increase of the salt load in the Vaal river, which can be mitigated only by releases from the Vaal dam as a means of diluting this load… Read the full article here or download it below.
The FSE’s comments on the Draft Scoping Report of the Royal Bafokeng’s Solar Panel Project
Report can be viewed and downloaded below.
Deep concern over rising underground tide of toxic acidic mine water on East Rand | Mail & Guardian
Article by Sheree Bega All three deep-level abstraction pumps at the government’s R1 billion Eastern basin acid mine drainage (AMD) treatment plant in Springs on Gauteng’s East Rand are no longer operational, leaving a tide of toxic mine water rising significantly underground… Continue reading the article here.
FSE’s comments on the Draft Scoping Report: Pan African Resources Gold Bearing Tailings Retreatment
The FSE’s report can be viewed and downloaded below.
Carte Blanche: Acid Water Alert
My child would still be alive if that dam at the mine wasn’t there | Mail & Guardian
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Facilitated tour conducted with the Global Challenges Research Fund’s (GCRF) Mine Dust & Health Network Stakeholders
The FSE facilitated and conducted a tour on Monday, the 28th of March, 2022 with the Global Challenges Research Fund’s (GCRF) Mine Dust & Health Network Stakeholders of the Mintails Group of Companies’ operations, Harmony Gold Mine’s Doornkop Tailings Storage Facility, Gold Fields’ South Deep Mine’s Doornpoort Tailings Storage Facility, DRDGold’s reclamation operations and Sibanye-Stillwater’s reclamation […]
FSE’s objection to the coal prospecting application for Cloud End No. 76HT Farm (DMR REF: KZN30/5/1/1/2/11043PR)
The objection can be viewed and downloaded below.
FSE’s objection to the coal prospection application (DMR REF: KZN30/5/1/1/2/11186PR)
FSE’s objection can be found below.