Five years after Rio Tinto destroyed the 47,000 yr old sacred rock shelter at Juukan Gorge to expand an iron ore mine, an ambitious rebuild is underway, inspired by the World Heritage Lascaux & Chauvet caves in the south of France.
#JuukanGorge #ReimaginingCulture #SacredCaves #Lascaux #Chauvet
Replica of destroyed Juukan Gorge being built five years after Rio Tinto blast
A full-scale replica of the Juukan Gorge cave, destroyed in 2020 by mining company Rio Tinto to an…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/191451/
#JuukanGorge 47,000 years
https://theconversation.com/the-first-published-results-from-juukan-gorge-show-47-000-years-of-aboriginal-heritage-was-destroyed-in-mining-blast-234806
65,000 years Madjedbebe rockshelter in #Kakadu, near #Jabiru
https://theconversation.com/buried-tools-and-pigments-tell-a-new-history-of-humans-in-australia-for-65-000-years-81021
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010 doco)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664894/
Painting in the Dark (interview)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/painting-in-the-dark-cave-paleolithic-izzy-wisher/104533286
Leave it in the ground
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/07/wheres-the-accountability-indigenous-elders-decry-irreparable-coalmine-damage-to-heritage-site
#FirstNations #fossilfuels #watersupply
#dendrobium #illawarra
#JuukanGorge #RioTinto
#Sydney is among the few cities anywhere in the world to allow mining within its #watercatchment areas. Scientists have argued for years that the longwalls were causing cracks to reach the surface, diverting water away from some of the 1,000 upland swamps in the #Woronora plateau and reducing inflows into nearby dams.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969720383054?dgcid=author
From 2020: Why #Aboriginal people have little say over energy projects on their land
Published: August 10, 2020
by Lilly O'Neill, et al.
"Renewable energy projects come with a caveat: most #TraditionalOwners in #Australia have little legal say over them.
- The #NativeTitleAct does not allow traditional owners to veto developments proposed for their land.
- The National Native Title Tribunal — which rules on disputes between native title holders and #companies — has sided with native title holders only three times, and with companies 126 times (of which 55 had conditions attached).
- #RioTinto’s agreement for the area including #JuukanGorge reportedly “gagged” traditional owners from objecting to any activities by the company, which then destroyed the 46,000-year-old rock shelters.
#FortescueMetalsGroup #Colonialism #AsianRenewableEnergyHub #IndigenousEstate #CorporateColonialism #Mining #GreenEnergy #Consent #WindTurbines #Pilbara #SolarArrays #CulturalGenocide #IndigenousSovereignty #LandBack
When #RioTinto destroyed ancient caves at #JuukanGorge, the world got an unsightly glimpse of #WesternAustralia's outdated cultural heritage laws.
Here's everything you need to know about the WA government's backdown on its #Aboriginal Cultural Heritage laws
By Jake Sturmer
Posted Tue 8 Aug 2023
"The WA government's 2021 changes were supposed to prevent what it described as a 'global embarrassment' from ever happening again.
"Instead, the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act has left many farmers confused and traditional owners frustrated.
"After just five weeks in operation, the government has backflipped — trying to stem the political bleeding that is tainting WA's new premier and now muddying the waters of the Voice referendum debate.
So what's changing?
"It's important to remember that any activities that could damage Aboriginal cultural heritage still need approval.
"The old-but-soon-to-be-new 1972 act meant the minister had to tick off on every action no matter how minor — known as a Section 18 approval.
WA premier announces repeal of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage laws
"Just five weeks after being legislated, Roger Cook announces the WA government will be scrapping its #AboriginalCulturalHeritageLaws.
"The 2021 act created a system of tiers and approvals.
"Want to build a fence with no clearing? No approval required.
"New #mine site with deep excavation? You'll need a management plan that has to be ticked off by a local Aboriginal organisation at your expense.
"But the government acknowledged these tiers have caused massive confusion and will therefore be scrapped.
"There were reports the rules would have prevented everything from gardening to installing a swimming pool, building a garage or burying a pet in the backyard.
"In fact, such activities were exempt, as were all properties smaller than 1,100 square metres.
"So it's no surprise the biggest outcry came from farmers.
How will another Juukan Gorge be prevented?
"When landowners requested to damage or destroy heritage sites, they needed one of those #Section18 approvals from the minister.
"If the minister rejected that, developers had a right to appeal but traditional owners did not.
"As part of the government's backflip, it will amend the laws to give a right of appeal to the native title party whose cultural heritage is impacted.
"Developers will also have to bring any new heritage information to the government's attention."
Read more:
#Pilbara #Australia
#Mining #CorporateColonialism
#WaterIsLife #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism
via @jhaue
Pilbara traditional owners 'profoundly disappointed' as Equinox Resources lodges #Section18 request
By Tom Robinson, February 24, 2024
"#EquinoxResources wants to start drilling at its #Hamersley Iron Ore Project to move it towards commercialisation, but WGAC says that will impact two #Aboriginal heritage sites in the area and has called for the company to abandon its plans.
"#WGAC is also campaigning against the mine proposal as a whole, saying it will damage ground and surface #water connected to #HamersleyGorge in #Karijini.
"The parties have been unable to reach an agreement, and Equinox has lodged an #AboriginalHeritageAct Section 18 application — the controversial mechanism that allowed #RioTinto to destroy #JuukanGorge in 2020 — with the state government."
#Pilbara #Australia #Mining #SLAPPs #Lawsuits #CorporateColonialism #WaterIsLife #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism
@jhaue "#EquinoxResources wants to start drilling at its #Hamersley Iron Ore Project to move it towards commercialisation, but WGAC says that will impact two #Aboriginal heritage sites in the area and has called for the company to abandon its plans.
"#WGAC is also campaigning against the mine proposal as a whole, saying it will damage ground and surface #water connected to #HamersleyGorge in #Karijini.
"The parties have been unable to reach an agreement, and Equinox has lodged an #Aboriginal Heritage Act Section 18 application — the controversial mechanism that allowed #RioTinto to destroy #JuukanGorge in 2020 — with the state government."
#Australia #Pilbara #Mining #SLAPPs #Lawsuits #CorporateColonialism #LandBack #IndigenousPeoples
Section 18 was the controversial mechanism that led to the destruction of caves at Juukan Gorge in 2020, and this application is among the first since the WA government changed the law in response to the incident.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/video/how-to-mine-a-sacred-site/qugo2gmcb
Also: “the #AboriginalCulturalHeritage Act 2021 was passed, superseding the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 from 1 July 2023. The new act put #traditionalowners at the centre of the decision-making process about heritage management. BUT On 8 August 2023, the premier of Western Australia announced that the act would be repealed and the 1972 act reinstated and amended.”
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juukan_Gorge
#JuukanGorge #RioTinto / Stinko
(WA aka #Woodside #Australia see #Burrup)
In Australia, Mining companies blow up Mesolithic sites and noone bats an eye.
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