Sentence examples for mining approval from inspiring English sources

The former independent Tony Windsor, who held Joyce's seat of New England, has been spurred by the mining approval to consider a return to politics and a potential run against Joyce in the federal election, due in 2016.

Dave Sweeney, spokesman for the Australian Conservation Foundation, told Guardian Australia ERA "shouldn't be going deeper at R3D when they've made no commitment to clean up their mess, and the window for mineral mining approval expires in 2021".

Thus far national and regional-led efforts tend to focus on curtailing unapproved or illegal mining (e.g. using police forces, fines, or equipment seizures), strengthening the mining approval process, and improving mining practices to minimize mercury exposure.

He works on environmental impact assessments, including mining approvals and permits.

Hunt has indicated this opposition is politically motivated, claiming there was "a wall of silence" from conservationists to mining approvals under Labor.

The issues include coal seam gas and coal mining approvals as well as the Native Vegetation Act, which restricts broadscale land clearing.

Coal seam gas and mining approvals form one of the big issues threatening to put a dent in government seats in the north of the state, such as Tamworth, Ballina, Lismore and Tweed.

Coral bleaching at the Great Barrier Reef and a series of controversial mining approvals around the country could well get thrown into the mix, but it's hard to know at this stage how critical they will become.

It also repeats the Greens commitment to ending the coal industry: the policy contains a commitment to "no new coal or unconventional gas mining approvals"; and to protecting "the right for farmers and other landholders to say no to coaland unconventional gas on their land".

But there might be another factor at work in the coal market, which is potentially more significant; declining supplies of premium coal as exploration for the fuel slows and government mining approvals become harder to get.

From ministers giving coal licenses to friends against departmental advice; expensive bottles of wine buying mining approvals; and lavish overseas trips for MPs funded by mining barons.