TROLLOPE MINING SERVICES - ELANDSKLOOF

The document details a legal challenge by landowners against a coal prospecting right granted to Trollope Mining Services 2000 (Pty) Ltd. It highlights a 'fatally flawed consultation process' where landowners were contacted only days before deadlines and denied access to information. Furthermore, it argues that the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) was a generic 'desk-top study' that ignored sensitive wetlands, red data bird species, and rare plants, while the Department of Minerals and Energy failed to address these deficiencies.

• The consultation process conducted by the mining consultant, Geovicon CC, was procedurally unfair, with landowners being contacted only 0 to 3 days before the consultation period expired and no public participation meetings being held.
• Landowners were denied essential information regarding environmental and socio-economic impacts, and requests for information under the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA) were either refused or only partially granted without explanation by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME).
• The Environmental Management Plan (EMP) is described as a generic 'desk-top study' that failed to identify site-specific environmental risks, including the omission of a sensitive wetlands ecosystem, rare plant species, and the impact on breeding sites of red data wetland birds.
• The EMP lacked critical operational and financial details, such as the specific source for the required 1,000 to 10,000 litres of water per day, the identification of access roads, and the attachment of the R47,580 bank guarantee for rehabilitation.

APA

Centre for Environmental Rights (n.d.). TROLLOPE MINING SERVICES - ELANDSKLOOF. https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Trollope-Mining-Services-Elandskloof.pdf?x21779

Chicago

Centre for Environmental Rights. TROLLOPE MINING SERVICES - ELANDSKLOOF. n.d. https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Trollope-Mining-Services-Elandskloof.pdf?x21779.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{centreforenvironmentalrightsndtrollope, author = {{Centre for Environmental Rights}}, title = {{TROLLOPE MINING SERVICES - ELANDSKLOOF}}, institution = {Centre for Environmental Rights}, url = {https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Trollope-Mining-Services-Elandskloof.pdf?x21779}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }