NEMA

Water shortage is a risk not only for miners in resource-scarce areas that have to protect the little they have and those with excess water challenges.

In order to keep up with the moving target of environmental legislation, the South African mining industry needs to keep their pencils sharp.

On 19 June 2018,revised National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Bill, version "B" was tabled. The requirements to provide for financial provisioning for rehabilitation, apply only to applicants for environmental authorisations operating in the mining and oil and gas industries.