Save the Tarkine conducted a peaceful protest outside the Beer and Co Annual Tin Conference in Melbourne to highlight the risks associated with the Venture Minerals Mt Lindsay tin mine proposed within reserved a part of the Tarkine. Venture Minerals’ CEO Hamish Halliday is presenting at the conference.
“We want potential investors to know that Venture Mineral’s Mt Lindsay tin mine is risky environmentally, and risky economically”, said Save the Tarkine Campaign Coordinator, Scott Jordan.
“With a mine lease equivalent to 412 Melbourne Cricket Grounds, a 1.5km long 220 metre deep open cut pit and vast acid producing tailings dams and waste rock dumps, this is a huge impact on the largest remaining temperate rainforest in the southern hemisphere, and the 60 threatened species that call the Tarkine home”.
The Save the Tarkine volunteers were joined by two giant Tasmanian Devil costumes and the villainous Venture Minerals ‘Tin Man’.
Similar protest occured at an tin investment forum in Brisbane on Monday, and are planned for Sydney on Thursday.
Save the Tarkine Campaign Coordinator, Scott Jordan
