In the planning stages for over 10 years, the Quarry Extension Project t is about providing the built environment we must have, and ensuring the wider environmental focus we, as a community demand.
Need and Demand
It is a demand that the State Government has recognized and has deemed this Mount Cotton site as being of State Significance and provided for its protection as a vital extractive industry site.
This project doesn’t deem the creation of new quarry…
It is about taking a nearly depleted 1960’s operation and extending its life for the next 50 years…
It’s about doing so with a refreshing, world’s best practice, 21 st century approach…
An approach that demands ecological sustainability…
Most importantly, it is about ensuring that our community can control, legislate, utilise and enjoy the natural bounty of our local land.You see, we will need a staggering 350 million tonnes of extractive material in Redland and Logan Cities alone, over the next half century…
Just to meet State population forecasts.The Mount Cotton Extension Project will provide us 45 million tonnes of that demand. And we can be assured it will do so, in an environmentally sensitive way…
By bringing the now 50 year old operation into the 21 st century…
Our Commitments
Extend compliance…Extend a commitment to re-vegetation and regrowth…
Extend the commitment to conservation
Extending and commit large parcels of land to lasting protection-Protection-By law.