Courtney Houssos says proposed mine would create 860 jobs over its 15-year life and inject $67 million annually into local economy
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The New South Wales resources minister rebuked the federal environment minister over her decision to block the McPhillamys gold mine project and declared Indigenous heritage shouldn’t be protected at the expense of critical minerals investment, new documents have revealed.
Correspondence tabled in federal parliament shows NSW minister Courtney Houssos wrote to Tanya Plibersek in August, five days after Plibersek announced she had refused Regis Resources’ mining application because of the proposed location of a tailings dam and its possible impact on Indigenous heritage.
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