Watershed Project

Community Consultation
Planning Places has collaborated with Jeanette Sturiale The Opportunity Consultant to undertake the community consultation process on behalf of Environmental Licensing Professionals Pty Ltd (www.elp.com.au) for the Vital Metals Ltd Voluntary Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Watershed Project.

Vital Metals www.vitalmetals.com.au is a specialist tungsten explorer and aspires to operate a tungsten mine on its Watershed deposit in North Queensland. The proposed Mining Lease Applications are located approximately 30km north west of the township of Mt Carbine see figure1.

Prior to being granted approval to commence mining activities, Vital Metals has voluntarily opted to undergo a comprehensive EIS. Part of this EIS seeks input from the community and associated government service providers that may be affected as a consequence of the proposed mining activities.

Background documents:
Introduction to the Watershed Project power point presentation

Public Displays:
The Initial Advice Statement is available to read on line and a public display that provides information about the Watershed project will be held at the Mareeba library 221 Byrnes Street Mareeba (see www.library.msc.qld.gov.au/ohours.html#Mareeba for opening hours) from the 16th of July to the 10th of August 2007.

Have your say:
To provide your comments on the Watershed project you can:

Download and print the reply paid survey form and post it to Planning Places
Complete the survey form, save it to your hard drive and then forward it as an attachment to info@planningplaces.com.au
For further information, phone Planning Places on (07) 40927375 or email PP.

Please provide your comments by August the 10th.

Socio Economic Analysis
Planning Places has collaborated with Jeanette Sturiale The Opportunity Consultant and Cumming Economics www.cummings.net.au/economics.htm to analyse the socio economic impacts of the Watershed project upon the affected communities. This analysis will among other things, examine:

The social values that may be affected by the proposal
The existing economic environment that may be affected by the proposal.

This information will then be collated to describe the potential mitigation measures for protecting or enhancing the social and economic values, and using quantitative indicators describe how these impacts will be managed.

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