For interested parties: a downloadable copy of the Final Comments Report submitted to Aubrey Withers by the Verlorenvlei Coalition. VC Comments on Final Scoping Report 2. (256KB)
Dear friends We will once again submit a collated report on behalf of the entire Coalition, and with input from all interested members. Please don’t underestimate the value of each individual voice. Many Coalition members have also registered directly with Withers Environmental Consultants (awithers@mweb.co.za) as interested and affected parties (IAPs) and will lodge their comments [...]
Meet the beautiful new logo of the Verlorenvlei Coalition, designed by Roderick Freemantle. The logo represents the connecting of individuals to form a strong united front, and the biodiversity and life (symbolised by the wildflower) they are fighting to protect. (Find out more about the Verlorenvlei Coalition)
In June, Noseweek Magazine published an article about the proposed mining in Moutonshoek. ‘Myn verdwyn!’ (mine be gone!) is the battle cry across the Moutonshoek valley on the Cape West Coast, where the entire community is in revolt against a plan to dig a huge open-cast tungsten mine that would spell doom for their prosperous [...]
Here are the latest updates for members of the Verlorenvlei Coalition. ENGLISH Verlorenvlei Coalition Update 16 July 2009 – DOWNLOAD If you aren’t yet a member of the Verlorenvlei Coalition, please join us! Download/view English version: Call to join the Verlorenvlei Coalition Download/view Afrikaans version: Sluit aan by die VK
Here are the latest updates from the Verlorenvlei Coalition: ENGLISH Verlorenvlei Coalition update 26 June 2009 – DOWNLOAD AFRIKAANS Verlorenvlei Koalisie verslag 26 Junie 2009 – DOWNLOAD If you aren’t yet a member of the Verlorenvlei Coalition, please join us! Download/view English version: Call to join the Verlorenvlei Coalition Download/view Afrikaans version: Sluit aan by [...]
Cape Town, 22 June 2009. One of the very few coastal fresh water lakes in South Africa, Verlorenvlei, near Elands Bay on South Africa’s west coast, is being threatened by a proposed tungsten open cast mine. BirdLife South Africa, the leading bird conservation organisation in South Africa, is extremely concerned that a mining licence may [...]
(Written by Roderick Freemantle). MYN VERDWYN Not many people know this, but a rich deposit of tungsten and molybdenum has been discovered in the Moutonshoek valley on the eastern slopes of the Piketberg Mountains. Sound bites reaching the “interested and affected parties” ears through the static of spin reveal that the extraction of these minerals [...]
Article posted 02 June 2009 in LegalBrief Environmental: Moutonshoek community rallies Published in: Legalbrief Environmental Date: Tue 02 June 2009 Category: Development Issue No: 0114 “Opponents of the plan to develop a major open-cast mine in the heart of the fertile farming valley of Moutonshoek, near Piketberg, have won an initial skirmish [...]
The Verlorenvallei Coalition has been formed. Download/view English version: Call to join the Verlorenvlei Coalition Download/view Afrikaans version: Sluit aan by die VK A word from Garry Sheard, Vice-chairman of the new Coalition: Hi to all As you may know, in March / April 2009, Bongani Minerals (Pty) Ltd submitted an application to the Department of [...]
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