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| Community Benefits |
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Potential benefits of the salt mine project: |
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hundreds of jobs in construction, operations and complementary businesses, including opportunities for the employment and training of Aboriginal people at the mine or with land management and rehabilitation projects; |
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hundreds of millions of dollars in investment in plant, equipment and services; |
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salt-related business opportunities, such as a salt processing plant that would process and package edible bush food / gourmet salt blends; |
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potential spin-offs from this mine could make a town a ‘salt city’ as well as a ‘solar city’; |
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exporting the technologies developed on the salt mine like the solar / salt battery business; |
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a community benefits package with traditional owners; |
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a sponsorship package; |
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providing a waste storage facility that can serve the resource industry; |
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infrastructure such as a road and airport to service the mine; |
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an environmental offsets program that can be applied to land management or projects that contribute to conservation or ecological biodiversity. |
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