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YIPA engages with local communities
YIPA representatives keep close contact with Esperance, Goldfields and Albany Communities.
They regularly visit the areas and also attended the most recent Over the Horizon Conference in Esperance.
They met with members
of the Esperance Shire as well as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Goldfields Esperance Development Corporation, EPSL, local Members of Parliament and a host of Esperance's industry partners as well as many local people.
Channels of communication are open with key
stakeholder groups and discussions are extremely positive. Other stakeholders remain to be consulted and YIPA looks forward to its next visit to the areas.
YIPA also takes a keen interest in rail infrastructure and David Utting (right) inspected rail infrastructure from
Esperance to Kalgoorlie as well as areas surrounding the planned Kalgoorlie Transport Hub and Albany rail and port infrastructure.
Working with communities
The Australian minerals industry is part of the communities in which it operates.
The future of mining and minerals transportation in the Yilgarn and export via Esperance is dependent on its contribution to social, economic and institutional development of local communities.
This requires those involved in the industry to implement effective and transparent engagement, communication and reporting arrangements with stakeholders.
Mining and export of ore requires effective consultation with communities.
YIPA aims to:
INFORM – provide the community with balanced and objective information to ensure they understand the nature of the project, any changes and the likely impacts, benefits and long term legacy of the project.
CONSULT – consult with the community by providing mechanisms for two way information flows between company and community.
INVOLVE – work directly with the community throughout the process to ensure community issues and concerns are consistently understood and considered.
COLLABORATE – foster partnerships with the community whereby input is sought at the decision making stages mine operation and ore transportation.
Adapted from Minerals Council of Australia
The Environment
YIPA
members are committed to operating in a way that embraces the concepts
of sustainability; environmentally, socially and economically.
The aims of the Association are to promote in the Yilgarn region:
• Sustainable economic development and mining and community, indigenous and environmental achievement
• The interests of prospective and current iron miners and the development of infrastructure.
YIPA
believes the promotion of community, indigenous and environmental
achievement in the region can be balanced with sustainable economic
development and mining.
This will be for the benefit of those in
the region and for all West Australians and this would be a high
priority area for YIPA.
YIPA's Environmental Projects will benefit the local communities and the people of Western Australia.
YIPA is currently investigating the implementation of:
•
A regional environmental database to capture data from members’
environmental research on flora and fauna species, particularly in the
Banded Iron Formations (BIF).
• A regional mapping initiative
The
parameters and metrics of these projects are currently under evaluation
and talks are being undertaken with the Geraldton Iron Ore Alliance
(GIOA) in order that data sets are compatible across the GIOA and YIPA’s
membership footprints.
Compatibility across companies and
organisations will make any databases more useful when interacting with
each other and government agencies and traditional landowners.
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