I would suggest its that kind of thinking that produces these types of comments where ZEN is making either Hundreds of Billions or $242trillion. People like to "skip over things" and suggest its up to the company instead of actually looking at past history.
So I have asked before, name one company that was able to build a mine with this type of enviro impact that did not have to complete an extensive EA?
No one can, but somehow the Borg is able to see their way clear that an EA might be waved in ZENs case?
Is that a matter of distorted thinking or reality?
How does one justify in their own mind that ZEN insisting they are benign in product somehow makes them benign on enviro impact for their mine?
You have seen the video of what the finished product (mine) will look like. Give me an example of one company that has moved 27million tons of overburden and "devastated" the eco system where they intend on placing that 27 million tons, that has not needed to carry on a lengthy EA?
So you understand just how much excavating that is. 1 million tons is about 100 meters Cubed. So if you took the length of a football field,made it the same in width and piled the dirt 100 meters high, thats 1 million tons of dirt. Now do 27 of those. So common sense if the Knats used any, would tell you that there is absolutely NO WAY you can skip an EA, not only that, but NO WAY to skip a very thorough and extensive EA.
Now I quite realize this compacts where the above is water and it does not. So once again to put things in perspective. If you were to use a 3x9 block configuration you would have 300meters,x900metersx100meters
We know you are not stacking the fill 100 meters high, so lets say you are going 4 meters high that means you are now covering an area of 25 times the above. So 25x300= 7500metersx900metersx4meters (checking the calculation 7500x900x4=27,000,000 cubic meters, which is correct)
Which equals 6,750,000 square meters of land covered 4 meters deep. Which is 1 square mile. 1.06 but who cares at this point.
So now you have the overburden removed and you have not only killed but buried everything for a mile in all directions under 4 meters of fill and you still have not started getting access to the Pipes yet, which makes more overburden elsewhere.
So I want you to check my numbers to be sure I am not exaggerating and I want you to remove the name ZEN from the numbers and tell me what the odds are of a "skip over an EA" using common sense, don't use anything else because it blurs your vision and makes you become a knat.
If nothing else you can see why this is expected to take 2 years to remove, correct? Can you acknowledge that at least that is a reasonable number from RPA? If so, you can see that if it rains all summer then add a year, right?
So lets establish this in "stages" consider this a stage one discussion. |
