The CMPA has now produced 50 issues of its publication! The magazine publication Sand & Stone (which is also supplied as an emag on the CMPA website) has provided eleven Voting Members over the past two years with the opportunity to showcase their business on the front cover and to provide readers with an interesting …
With the CMPA entering into its second decade with confidence, CMPA SECRETARIAT provides an overview of the benefits enjoyed by CMPA Members. THE CMPA has grown from humble beginnings and now after 10 years, has over 200 Members covering independent operators involved in construction material processing businesses engaged in the extracting, processing or otherwise working …
IAN HAMM, Executive Director Aboriginal Affairs Victoria provides an overview of how to deal with Aboriginal heritage issues. VICTORIA has been a great place to live for many thousands of years. The result of this is physical remnants of earlier lives – Aboriginal places and objects. There are also places of spiritual importance that may …
The CMPA SECRETARIAT attempts to clarify some of the issues that commonly occur in applying the Native Vegetation Framework to extractive industry projects. VICTORIA’S Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action (the Framework) was released in 2002. The primary goal for native vegetation management is a reversal of the long term decline in the extent …
CMPA SECRETARIAT reports on the successful day recently held at Bendigo for CMPA Members. THE fine morning of 18th March 2010 saw over 40 representatives of the quarry industry from all over Victoria meet at the All Season Quality Inn at Bendigo to get on the bus for the tour out to the Allstone basalt …
By CMPA SECRETARIAT Welcome to the 50th edition of CMPA News! Below is a summary of the latest news and happenings from the CMPA Secretariat. NEW WORK PLAN GUIDELINE The CMPA has provided comments to DPI on the draft of the updated Extractive Industry Work Plan Guideline. This guideline outlines the requirements of the scope …
Fifty Issues of CMPA News! CMPA Newsletter’s original editor, MIKE McCANN, reflects on the growth in the magazine from its first edition to the current 50th edition of Sand & Stone. THERE has been a great deal of progress from the first CMPA News back in June 2000 to the current 50th edition of Sand …