{"id":123919,"date":"2024-09-10T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=123919"},"modified":"2024-09-10T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T23:08:57","slug":"explosive-letter-buries-pliberseks-reasons-for-blocking-goldmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=123919","title":{"rendered":"Explosive letter buries Plibersek\u2019s reasons for blocking goldmine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tanya Plibersek has hit out at \u201cmisinformation\u201d over her decision to block a waste dump proposed as part of a goldmine development and urged the Coalition to \u201ccome clean\u201d on whether it believes Indigenous heritage should be protected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The environment and water minister was criticised after she issued a partial section 10 declaration<\/a> to protect Aboriginal heritage from being destroyed by a tailings dam for the proposed McPhillamys gold project near Blayney in New South Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The developer Regis Resources had planned to build the tailings dam for the goldmine at the headwaters of the nearby Belubula River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Claims<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claims of Indigenous sites near a proposed $1bn NSW goldmine were examined and dismissed as having \u2018no authenticity\u2019 in a cultural audit overseen by elders, says Roy Ah-See.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why then was the mine blocked?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was it blocked because the political donations from this miner were not enough for a favourable decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was it blocked because the political donations from this miner were not enough for a favourable decision?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":123920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[12865,5026,13243],"class_list":["post-123919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-blayney","tag-nsw","tag-regis-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t