fortunately, unless they have a very compelling reason they can spin up as much as they want. No one wants a mine in their backyard but unless its pumping pathogens into the air or poisoning the ground water, "i don't wanna" ain't going to cut it. Industry will always always always trump worker bees.....
i'd also put all my shares on the table betting they won't spend 1 brass razoo on lawyers, it'll all be tied up in pension funds and realestate boomer style. honestly ask yourself, how much of your hard earned money would you spend on "fighting" a mining company especially when the first lawyer they talk to is going to say the following:
- its northern boundary is a RAAF base
- its 20kms out of the towns boundry
- its western boundary is a nature reserve (no neighbours and by virtue of the reserve it not being in the reserve means its been accounted for).
- the closest business aside from the RAAF base is a paintball park.
"I would love to take your case, but i suspect it'll cost about 500k to get the case to arbitration and about 1.5m to take it to court... i wish you all the best".
the most it will amount to is cardboard signs on front fences and maybe a local newspaper article with some old fat surburbanites looking angry captioned "locals standing firm against the shifting sands".... or some equally dumb pun......
then this fella turns up and they all go back to their mazda's to have a sook.
