Native Vegetation and Mobile Plant Add-Ons ON Friday 12 October members travelled to William Adams Laverton for a CMPA Briefing focusing on: Draft Guidelines for Native Vegetation Management, and Mobile Plant Add-Ons Draft Guidelines for Native Vegetation Management These Guidelines…
CMPA Presentation at CCF Conference IS it about who is responsible or is it about how we can ensure our community is gaining good public assets? As a quarry owner, and a representative of quarry owners within the CMPA, I…
DPI Resources Survey The DPI recently conducted a survey to determine the resources currently available in Victoria. The data collected in this survey will be reviewed by the DPI and will give an indication of the reserves currently available in…
Tax Law Amendment— Its affect on the Industry CMPA Associate Member Mead Partners—Chartered Accountants have looked into the Tax Law Amendment (2007 Measures No. 2) Bill 2007 on behalf of the Association’s Members. After reviewing the relevant information including the…
The graph to the below ‘History of Application Status’ refers to those Work Authority applications yet to be approved, and provides a comparison over time. ‘With Proponent’, ‘With MPR’, and ‘With Referral’ all refer to applications currently in the Draft…
“History of Victorian Quarries” – Presentation at the CMPA Annual Dinner Early Quarries Ropes over the face were used to support drillers with jack hammers Shot rock was transported to the crushing plant by road or rail Bucket elevator transporting…
Explosives Stolen from Storage Magazine A significant quantity of blasting explosives was recently stolen from an approved explosive storage magazine located in southern Tasmania. Between Friday 27 and Monday 30 April 2007, several men broken into an explosive magazine storage…
Educating High School Students The CMPA is presently working with a number of other related industries to develop a pre-employment program that can be undertaken by high school students. This should be able to give them an understanding and appreciation…
Work Plan Expectations by Community One of our Members is in the process of applying for a Work Authority. This has ended up at VCAT and it is interesting to see what sort of things the community (that is the…