AROUND 70 community members gathered in the Taylors Arm Hall on Saturday, 30 August to hear about current attempts for critical mineral exploration in the local area.
Meeting organisers Lock the Nambucca Valley (LNV) say almost a third of the local population of Taylors Arm, Burrapine and Thumb Creek were in attendance.
A community-based environmental group, LNV has campaigned since 2012 to keep mining activities out of the Nambucca Valley.
“At the meeting LNV provided information on the prospects and implications of mining exploration and mining activities that could be happening in Taylors Arm,” said LNV secretary Georgette Allen.
“Currently, an Exploration Licence Application is held by Trigg Minerals Ltd.
“If this application proceeds to an Exploration Licence, the company could begin actively approaching landholders with entry access forms.
“Currently the tenement… extends over Taylors Arm and surrounds.”
The information session was presented by members of LNV’s Executive Committee.
The meeting informed locals of the steps that enable exploration and subsequently mining to occur, and provided them with “clear steps to effectively delay, resist and defeat approaches by mining companies and their agents to access and ultimately mine on their land”.
Ms Allen said mining companies have “no social licence” to operate in the Nambucca Valley.
“At the end of the day Taylors Arm community members and property owners present at the meeting unanimously declared that the right of social visitation to their properties was withdrawn in relation to mining companies and their agents,” she said.
“The key message is simple: do not engage with any representative from any mining company seeking entry to your property.”
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