Adani plans miners village

A MINERS village for 1500 workers will be one of the first projects in the rollout of the Carmichael mine construction phase.

An Adani spokesman said once the Native Title issue was resolved it would allow the company to start construction of the access roads, airstrip and mining camp, plus the rail corridor.

The company hopes to register the Indigenous Land Use Agreements with the Native Title Tribunal by the end of August with construction set for September.

Rockhampton Region Mayor Margaret Strelow said the Adani board would now release a certain amount of money for pre- works to begin.

“There are some jobs that will start immediately or very quickly but they tend to be the design works and that will be AECOM in Townsville, so there’s about 70 people who will be employed in Townsville,” Cr Strelow explained.

“My understanding is they will spend the money they need to get the project as far as they can, with the final de- cision date then expected just before Christmas.”

Cr Strelow said it was expected pre- works would involve projects such as roadworks and the construction of workers camps.

“Certainly a lot more fine design work will be done so we should expect to see extra personnel appointed and the company really ramping up it’s capability to hit the ground running very quickly when the final investment has been secured.”

The mine workers accommodation village is to be constructed 15km east of the project mine site with access from the Moray Carmichael Road.

The village will be developed in three stages.

Stage 1 will see the initial capacity of 250 beds, to be built at the start of construction activities.

Stage 2 will see the addition of 1000 beds to bring capacity to 1250 beds, which is expected to be needed in the second year of construction. Stage 3 would add 750 beds to bring the total capacity of the village to 2000 beds by the start of mining operations.