Chandler Project EIS Proceeds

• NT Government EPA issues EIS guidelines for Chandler salt mine project
• Tellus proceeds with EIS studies

Tellus has been issued by the Northern Territory Government’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) with final guidelines to prepare a draft Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) for the Chandler Project.
“This is another important milestone in the Chandler Project. The EIS will assess potential environmental and social impacts of the proposed Project and develop appropriate management strategies,” Tellus Managing Director Duncan van der Merwe said.

The EIS studies over the next 12 months will be managed by Coffey out of Darwin. The EIS team will be supported by international regulatory experts familiar with best practice regulatory regimes that apply to salt mines with complementary storage businesses.

The EIS will include extensive community consultation. The draft EIS will be lodged with the Northern Territory Government late next year. The community will also have a chance to comment once the draft EIS document is lodged, with a four-week public exhibition period.

“Community input will be essential at each project stage to understand the social, economic or environmental impacts and to identify appropriate ways of dealing with them,” Mr van der Merwe said.

Tellus Holdings Ltd (“Tellus”) is an Australian exploration company with an attractive portfolio of rock salt deposits. Tellus is planning an underground rock salt mine in the Northern Territory. Tellus is the parent of a group of companies that plans to be involved in mine building, processing and sale of industrial and edible salts, fertilisers. Potential complementary businesses include storage in voids created by mining.

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Duncan van der Merwe, Managing Director Tel: +61 (0)2 9241-7678
Jane Munday, Michels Warren Munday on Mob: +61 (0)427 880 083