Sentence examples for mining proposal from inspiring English sources

A government commission has now rejected the mining proposal.

All live in the Melody Rocks near Cooktown on Cape York Peninsula, which fall under a mining proposal under consideration by the Queensland state government.

The mining proposal is currently before the Queensland government but has yet to be referred to the federal government for assessment under the EPBC Act.

A mining proposal that received some eleventh-hour permits from British Columbia's outgoing Christy Clark government has another legal challenge on its hands—and this one is from the feds.

It also proposed to allow the body to decide mining proposals on the land and receive royalties.

A spokesman for Coast and County, Derec Davies, said the fact it took legal action from conservationists to establish that the company had "grossly inflated" the purported economic benefits highlighted a "huge problem" with government scrutiny of mining proposals.

This situation resonates at the local level, where environmental groups faced, for example, with coal mining proposals, find themselves up against big businesses with huge financial resources, political influence and, shamefully, government support.

Alpha is one of six Galilee basin mining proposals singled out last week in a climate advocacy report arguing they must be stopped if global warming is to be kept to 1.5C, the aspirational target of the Paris Agreement.

"We urge the government to use the powers it now has to properly test the ecological sustainability of advanced mining proposals, and to ensure proper scrutiny and capacity to challenge decisions where environmental destruction is proposed".

Federal permits for such mining operations could be obtained relatively easily in the past, but in 2009, the agency, citing evidence of ecological harm as well as a growing public outcry, started requiring more stringent environmental reviews of new mining proposals, and started taking stronger action to protect mountain streams under the Clean Water Act.

Burke stated in his letter to the IESC chair Lisa Corbyn that Shenhua was one of five mining proposals being withdrawn so that the "committee is able to fully reflect the government intention in introducing this [water trigger] amendment, in its consideration and provision of advice for all future requests".