Mining brings both benefits and costs to South Australia. Currently, mining and exploration leases cover much of the State, including prime agricultural land and most of our conservation areas. Mineral resources belong to the people, yet we are often sold short when governments negotiate with big mining companies. To ensure mining and exploration is done for the benefit of all, we need to protect our high value farmland, our water resources and our natural environment, and maximise the return to the community. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is virtually toothless when it comes to mining. Mining Ministers rarely look beyond short-term profit or insist on thorough environmental impact assessment. A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE MINERAL RESOURCES MINING RESPONSIBLY WITH BENEFITS TO COMMUNITIES TAKING ACTION MINING Ensure that new mining projects benefit and strengthen host communities, including maximising employment through local processing of minerals and ensuring local procurement of goods and services; Prioritise farming over mining on prime agricultural land; Empower the EPA to regulate the environmental impacts of mining, rather than leaving it all to the Mining Minister; Increase royalties paid by mining companies to support a future fund that will benefit future generations of South Australians; Support open, enforceable and fair processes for negotiations between indigenous communities and resource companies. Authorised and printed by C. Mussared, Australian Greens SA, 239 Wright Street Adelaide, SA, 5000 We need to ensure mining activities take the bigger picture into account. The Greens will:

A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE MINERAL RESOURCES · Mining brings both benefits and costs to South Australia. Currently, mining and exploration leases cover much of the State, including prime

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Page 1: A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE MINERAL RESOURCES · Mining brings both benefits and costs to South Australia. Currently, mining and exploration leases cover much of the State, including prime

Mining brings both benefits and costs to South Australia. Currently, mining and exploration leases cover much of the State, including prime agricultural land and most of our conservation areas. Mineral resources belong to the people, yet we are often sold short when governments negotiate with big mining companies. To ensure mining and exploration is done for the benefit of all, we need to protect our high value farmland, our water resources and our natural environment, and maximise the return to the community.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is virtually toothless when it comes to mining. Mining Ministers rarely look beyond short-term profit or insist on thorough environmental impact assessment.

A BETTER WAY TO MANAGE MINERAL RESOURCESMINING RESPONSIBLY WITH BENEFITS TO COMMUNITIES

TAKING ACTION

MINING

Ensure that new mining projects benefit and strengthen host communities, including maximising employment through local processing of minerals and ensuring local procurement of goods and services;

Prioritise farming over mining on prime agricultural land;

Empower the EPA to regulate the environmental impacts of mining, rather than leaving it all to the Mining Minister;

Increase royalties paid by mining companies to support a future fund that will benefit future generations of South Australians;

Support open, enforceable and fair processes for negotiations between indigenous communities and resource companies.

Authorised and printed by C. Mussared, Australian Greens SA, 239 Wright Street Adelaide, SA, 5000

We need to ensure mining activities take the bigger picture into account.

The Greens will: