Mining’s future relies on the sectors’ ability to demonstrate land can be restored to enable another land use.
At this week’s International Mine Closure Conference in Melbourne, the Resources Victoria team shared their expertise on a broad range of topics, including building community trust, estimating rehabilitation liabilities and rehabilitation planning.
Mine closure is about creating safe and stable outcomes for communities, the environment and future generations. Closing and rehabilitating the Hazelwood, Yallourn and Loy Yang mines in the Latrobe Valley presents complex land use challenges.
Rehabilitating these sites is not just an engineering challenge – it’s a social challenge, an environmental challenge, a water management challenge, a regional development challenge, and increasingly, a climate resilience challenge.
Resources Victoria continues to play a role in shaping the future of mine rehabilitation locally in the Latrobe Valley and globally through sharing expertise.
