Hmmm, found this article of interest...
Maybe GBN using their exploration permit to build the decline will then allow them to qualify under the new environomental laws being proposed.
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"Minister posts new set of quicker enviro-impact regulations
South Africa's Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Wednesday launched a new set of Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) regulations, which will see a change in the way that mining applications are handled.
The new regulations aim to reduce the amount of time it takes for the government to deal with the process of processing applications and will replace similar regulations that currently deal with environmental issues in mining law.
However, the mining and minerals aspects will only come into effect on April 1, 2007, as aligning the two different aspects of law will require legislative changes that must go through parliament.
The net result will be that the Department of Minerals and Energy will conduct assessments in terms of the new legislation and will be able to issue records of decision.
Before this can happen, existing legislation needs to be phased out, and this law-reform process is expected to take about a year.
The new regulations come into effect for all other industries on July 1.
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has been in consultation with the mines ministry over items such as definitions and the listing of certain activities.
This should result in a developer being able to undergo one EIA process, instead of three, streamlining the process to first ore."
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Find it amusing that Enviromental & Tourism both under the same SA government branch...
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