Olympic Dam mine – proposed expansion
All papers on this webpage written by independent environment campaigner David Noonan unless otherwise indicated.
2025: Mound Spring briefing paper.
2024 – Submission to Northern Water Desalination and Pipeline Infrastructure Project
2024 – Decisions on the Northern Water Project could protect GAB Mound Springs from BHP impacts OR condemn the Springs to ongoing degradation
BHP’s Roxby Downs Act condemned by the Federal “A Way Forward” Report (briefing paper by David Noonan, November 2021)
Articles by Chris Mitchell in The Australian and The Advertiser, March 2022: ‘Dam busters: Aborigines battle BHP over water rights’, and ‘Why BHP is facing a minefield’
September 2021: Update on BHP’s indefensible legal privileges under the Indenture Act
BHP’s Roxby Downs Act condemned by the Federal “A Way Forward” Report (short briefing paper by David Noonan, November 2021)
Supplementary Submission No.73.1 to Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia: A case study on BHP Olympic Dam mine override of SA Aboriginal Heritage legislation and BHP’s threat to the Mound Springs of the Great Artesian Basin. October 2020. See also the first submission (August 2020).
Submission to federal parliamentary inquiry – Case study on BHP’s Olympic Dam mine in SA under the ‘fast track’ EPBC Act mine expansion Assessment and Approvals (Aug 2020)
Submission to EPBC Review regarding Olympic Dam (April 2020)
Briefing paper: BHP Olympic Dam operates under outdated 1991 era Radiation Exposure Standards
Comments on Olympic Dam EIS Guidelines – May 2020
Joint NGO recommendations to federal govt on BHP Olympic Dam mine expansion – Dec 2019
Joint NGO submission regarding proposed Olympic Dam mine expansion – Dec 2019
Evaporation ponds at BHP’s Olympic Dam mine are killing hundreds of birds (2019 Advertiser article)
Transcript of interview with David Noonan about the Olympic Dam mine, June 2020