Gold standard: fast-track mining project must pass environmental audit

Gold standard: fast-track mining project must pass environmental audit

Comment: There’s been a great deal of noise about the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024. Widely panned for lowering environmental standards, here’s how it might roll for one big project. Though the scale of this gold mine is very large, the process will be very similar for all substantive applications under the act.The Clutha River runs south through the Tarras Valley into Lake Dunstan near Cromwell. It’s a wine and fruit-growing area boarded to the…