Hi Rock555,
They cannot start the expansion without relevant approvals.
Simple.
You seem to have misunderstood the prior permits/approvals.
If they wanted to start the ponds for the 10ktpa expansion (prior to the plant), they would have to have approvals
at least for those ponds.
AFAIK no approvals have been granted for the expansion yet.
History re Stage 2 approvals:
(note: pond and plant approvals were
separate)
28th Jul 2017; Qtrly activities report:
14th Aug 2017:
7th Sep 2017:
16th Jan 2018:
15th Mar 2018:
10th Dec 2018:
9th Jan 2020:
(note this approval is for the PLANT and ancillary items; the actual evap pond permits were separate and earlier!)
Other interesting info:
(note 1500-2000 tpa)
Perhaps we do need a couple extra ponds to get comfortably to 2ktpa..?---
Perhaps the new ponds have something to do with expanding storage capacity..?
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No harm in guessing what the new ponds are for, but we should not get our facts mixed up wrt approvals etc!!
AFAICT the approvals for the 10ktpa expansion cover ponds + plant etc, so we should be expecting them to be combined, rather than staged as per S2.
Cheers
DYOR!
