GroundUp: Planned coal mine gets Concourt hand-off By John Yeld for GroundUp
In a short, sharp smack-down, the Constitutional Court has rejected an attempt by would-be coal mining company Atha-Africa Ventures to draw it into a controversial plan to mine coal in a highly sensitive protected grassland and water catchment area in Mpumalanga.
This 8,772-hectare protected area was formally proclaimed in January 2014 under the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act because of its ecological sensitivity as a high-yielding, highly strategic water catchment area within a high-altitude, threatened grassland ecosystem. Atha-Africa persisted and tried to persuade the Constitutional Court to grant it leave to appeal Judge President Maya’s decision, but again it received short shrift. In a one-paragraph judgment handed down earlier this month, the Concourt dismissed with costs the application, stating tersely: “It has concluded that the application should be dismissed as it does not engage this court’s jurisdiction and, in any event, bears no prospects of success.
But three months ago, in August, he dropped a bombshell by again publishing notice of this intention.
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