Morangup Timber Reserve

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Published: Tuesday, 17 November 2015 16:25

If you live at the Northern side, or the Western end of McKnoe drive, or the Western end of Red Brook Circle in Morangup and feel you are far enough away from the proposed Felicitas mine not to be greatly affected if a proposed mine were to go ahead, then you may wish to re-think your position on open-cut bauxite mining in Morangup.

Bauxite Resource Limited (BRL) still have an Exploration tenement pending over the Morangup Timber Reserve, which wraps around Morangup and encroaches into the Avon Valley National Park and into the Northern end of the City of Swan.

BAJV have recently released an updated Frequently Asked Question flyer on their FB page, stating that they will not be mining the Avon Valley National Park or Conservation Reserves, but the 30% JV part owner, BRL have an Exploration Licence number 70/3537, still pending over the Morangup Timber reserve, parts of the Avon Valley National Park and the Moondyne Nature Reserve, as well as the entire Julimar Brook from Julimar Rd. While live tenements E/3366 and E70/3159 cover a large area of the Swan Shire.

There has always been a question mark hanging over why BAJV / BRL wanted to include Gidgegannup representatives on the Bauxite Mining Community Advisory Group (BMCAG) because to date there have been no announcements as to any intention to mine in the Swan Shire.

We believe that anyone remotely close to any tenements being held by BAJV / BRL need to stand up and be counted in opposition to open-cut invasive bauxite and other mining in the Perth Hills and Avon Valley, or complacency could see mining on your doorstep sometime in the not too distant future.

There will be people who say AHMAG are just scaremongering as most of the State has live tenements over it for exploration. While that may be true, there are two exploration companies in our midst who have aspirations to be miners and if they get a foothold in Morangup, Wooroloo and Wundowie, then other tenements being held by them, can soon become mines after dangerous precedents are set to mine in the Perth Hills and Avon Valley.

Visit this map and then zoom in on the yellow Morangup peg and view the tenements for yourself. If you click on the green areas, tenement numbers will be shown. The purple area is the pending tenement.

With council Elections being held on Saturday the 17th of October, make sure you vote for Candidates in your council Elections who do not support mining. While local governments cannot approve or reject a mining proposal, under clause 120 of the mining Act they do have a say and you want your councilors to do just that on your behalf, or we may all live to regret the future outcome.

Please like us on Facebook and get your family and friends to do the same. We need to get the word out even further and with your help we can do just that.

It is not too late for people power to win this fight, we can save the Perth Hills and the Avon Valley, we still have time so lets not waste it.

“Together We Will Be Impossible To Ignore”

AHMAG