Overview

Consultation on draft EES Scoping Requirements for the Fingerboards Mineral Sands Project is now open.

Kalbar Resources Ltd (Kalbar) is proposing to develop a mineral sands mine near Glenaladale in East Gippsland. The proposed site is located approximately 20 kilometres north-west of Bairnsdale, and has an area of about 1,400 hectares.

The proposed mining methods involve open pit mining. Kalbar proposes to extract an estimated 200 million tonnes of ore from the site over a projected mine life of 20 years.

The project is in the preliminary stages. No approval has been granted and mining operations have not yet commenced. The Minister for Planning has decided that an Environment Effects Statement (EES) assessment will be required.

The Department of Environment, Planning, Land, Water and Planning will be responsible for administering the EES process on behalf of the Minister. The EES will describe potential environmental effects of the proposed project, assess relevant alternatives and outline how to manage environmental effects.

Find out more about the EES process.

Read the draft Scoping Requirements

Make a submission

Public consultation on the draft Scoping Requirements is open from 13 September to 3 October 2017.

Feedback will inform the final scoping requirements that will provide guidance to the proponent about what to include in their preparation of an Environment Effects Statement. The final scoping requirements will be made publicly available and there will be further opportunity for public consultation when the Environmental Effects Statement is exhibited.

Submissions on the draft Scoping Requirements can be made online, via post or by email. Submissions close 5pm Tuesday, 3 October 2017.

You can make a submission by:

  • using the online submission form below.
  • downloading the below submission form, and submitting the completed form and any supporting evidence by:
    • uploading your submission below
    • emailing your submission to environment.assessment@delwp.vic.gov.au.
    • mark ‘Fingerboards Mineral Sands Project’ and post to Impact Assessment Unit, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning, GPO Box 500 East Melbourne, VIC 3002

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Describe the issue or concern in detail below, and how the Scoping Requirements might be amended or expanded to address the issue or concern. Consider the nature of the of the issue or concern, how (if at all) it is addressed in the draft Scoping Requirements, what further or better guidance may be required to enable the proponent to prepare a better EES

Consider how the draft Scoping Requirements respond to issues or concerns appropriately as the document stands.

Outline your understanding of the intent of the draft Scoping Requirements, if relevant, and what the intent of your proposed change would be.

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Submission assistance

If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact the Impact Assessment Unit on (03) 8392 5470 or email: environment.assessment@delwp.vic.gov.au

For more information about the EES process for the Fingerboards Mineral Sands Project, please visit www.planning.vic.gov.au

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