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(Community meetings allow the Company to provide the community with important information relating to the Mt Owen operations. The meetings also allow the community to provide feedback and raise issues direclty with mine personnel)
Community meetings allow the Company
to provide the community with important
information relating to the Mt Owen
operations. The meeting also allow the
community to provide feedback and
raise issues directly with the mine
personnel.

In late 2004 the Mt Owen, Ravensworth East and Glendell Community Consultative Committees (CCC’s) amalgamated to form the Mt Owen Complex CCC. The amalgamated CCC currently comprises a total of nine community representatives, four mine representatives, and three representatives from Singleton Council. A Councillor from Singleton Council chairs meetings. Government representatives periodically attend meetings.

The CCC enhances the relationship with the community by providing a formal forum for interaction between the community and mine management. The community representatives share information from meetings with the wider community and bring back items for discussion at the CCC meetings. The CCC reviews and provides advice on the environmental performance of the development, including any construction or environmental management plans, monitoring results, audit reports, or complaints.

The CCC is required to meet quarterly. Minutes are prepared for each meeting and distributed to all CCC members for comment prior to finalising. Minutes are then forwarded to the Director-General of the Department of Planning (DOP) within a month of the Committee meeting. All action items arising from the meeting are recorded so that progress against these actions can be closely monitored at future meetings.

In March 2005, the Mt Owen Complex commenced annual meetings for the wider community. These meetings will provide the local residents and other key stakeholders with important information relating to the Mt Owen operations, and importantly, provide an opportunity for the community to provide feedback and raise issues directly with mine personnel. This initiative will support meetings of the recently expanded CCC.