Glencore email reveals cosy dealings between mining companies and NSW government agencies

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated July 31 2019 - 8:26am, first published 5:30am
Let's talk: Mining giant Glencore asked the Independent Planning Commission for a chat about the way things have been done for more than 20 years when it comes to mining and the NSW Government.
Let's talk: Mining giant Glencore asked the Independent Planning Commission for a chat about the way things have been done for more than 20 years when it comes to mining and the NSW Government.

THE NSW Department of Planning and other government agencies secretly workshopped "problematic" mine approval conditions with mining companies "as a matter of convention" for more than 20 years, says a bombshell submission from Glencore seeking to continue the arrangement with the Independent Planning Commission.

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