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Whats the deal with Digging banks and trees in NSW
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<blockquote data-quote="Village" data-source="post: 45149" data-attributes="member: 1900"><p>I know this comment is going to draw brick bats. But if the laws were repealed and allowed the holder of a miners right to use a hand held dredge of no more then cumulative say 8 hp, would there not be less environmental damage. The history of mammoth steam driven dredges and the impact on the environment I know, but the only true impact a small hand dredge has, is creating a minor suspended load in the waterway which, having seen and played with a few in the states, only truly lasts say 10m before it settles.</p><p></p><p>As far as permits go, as I understand it, all facets of government would like to set it removed, however as it has been there so long, none can be bothered to do the work to remove it altogether. And under the user pays theory, as it does see enough patronage the cost will just increase without any real service. To honest in 40 years of prospecting, I have never been asked to produce one. And the last time I spoke with state forests in new up around the bathurst area about 2007, they said don't worry.</p><p></p><p>I think we need to get hold of clive palmers ear, and get him to do something for kin, on a nationally scale in relation to this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Village, post: 45149, member: 1900"] I know this comment is going to draw brick bats. But if the laws were repealed and allowed the holder of a miners right to use a hand held dredge of no more then cumulative say 8 hp, would there not be less environmental damage. The history of mammoth steam driven dredges and the impact on the environment I know, but the only true impact a small hand dredge has, is creating a minor suspended load in the waterway which, having seen and played with a few in the states, only truly lasts say 10m before it settles. As far as permits go, as I understand it, all facets of government would like to set it removed, however as it has been there so long, none can be bothered to do the work to remove it altogether. And under the user pays theory, as it does see enough patronage the cost will just increase without any real service. To honest in 40 years of prospecting, I have never been asked to produce one. And the last time I spoke with state forests in new up around the bathurst area about 2007, they said don't worry. I think we need to get hold of clive palmers ear, and get him to do something for kin, on a nationally scale in relation to this. [/QUOTE]
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