A key part of the work of the CMPA is to act as an industry champion, informing Government on behalf of its Members on the impacts of proposed Government policy and to work towards reducing red tape and help to reduce operating costs. CMPA Executive Director ROGER BUCKLEY provides a summary of this work. THE …
Managing dust on your site so that dust emissions are minimised, impacts on neighbours are managed and health of workers maintained can be a costly and time consuming issue. DR LYN DENISON, Principal Scientist – Air Quality, EPA Victoria provides a summary on the EPA dust requirements as presented at the recent CMPA Dust Workshop. …
PETER HEYWOOD provides an overview of the family business that has been supplying sand to the Latrobe Valley region for over 50 years. Maryvale Sand started operation in 1957 as a partnership between Bruce Heywood and Albert Bicknell. In 1958 a sand washing plant was installed with washed sand deliveries commencing in March 1958 to …
The CMPA published the An Unsustainable Future: The prohibitive costs of securing access to construction material resources in Victoria report in late 2009. The summary of this report was published in Sand & Stone Edition 47. This is an important report that documents the real costs and time in obtaining a new Work Authority or …
Factoring Interruption into Your Budget Honorary CEO, RON KERR, reflects on the impact to budgets that the breaking of the drought and financial stability brings. HAVING an affinity with both quarrying and farming, one can presently reflect that 2010 is presenting many similarities with 1974 – particularly the breaking of a long and protracted drought. …