East Gippsland is now reluctantly seeing mining companies move in with controversial plans to destroy communities and their water supplies.

Gas fracking and Gina Rinehart comes to Gippsland!

One of Gina Rinehart’s companies has invested more than $4 million in the gas exploration firm Lakes Oil. It’s a subsidiary of Rinehart’s WA iron ore giant Hancock Prospecting. We suspect the ‘democratic system’ and govt processes we currently have here will be corrupted even more with her gazillions of political influence. Part of this …

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Nowa Nowa mine proposal moves to approvals stage

The following update is an excert from an article in The Age, journalist is Jason Dowling. Surge of activity could see Victoria playing mine host Victoria could soon boast a new commercial iron ore mine amid a surge of mining activity. A combination of increased mineral prices and a supportive state government is driving a …

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A copper zinc gold mine in the Victorian Alps?

The Stockman Project is located in the Victorian Alps, 470km by road north-east of Melbourne and 60km by road north east of Omeo. The project contains two copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold rich deposits, called Wilga and Currawong. Wilga was discovered in 1978 and Currawong in 1979. Denehurst mined the copper rich core of Wilga deposit from 1992 to …

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Baillieu linked to mine debacle

A controversial mine site is seeking government approval from the Baillieu government to reopen at Benambra, north of Swifts Creek in East Gippsland. The original Benambra mine was operated by Denehurst – and now the connections appear – in which our Premier, Ted Baillieu was a shareholder. Click here for the news story. The main …

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Baillieu linked to mine debacle

LIBERAL Party leader Ted Baillieu has been linked to one of Victoria’s most damaging environmental debacles through his shareholding in a collapsed mining company. The company, Denehurst, went bust in 1998, leaving the state government with a $6.9million clean-up bill at the Benambra Mine, in Victoria’s far east. News of Mr Baillieu’s involvement in the …

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