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WA Environmental Approvals & Resources Online A compliance practitioner working through ring binders and a laptop at a tidy desk in warm window light — the operational reality behind an environmental approval lodgement
June 2026

EARS is Gone: Lodging WA Environmental Approvals Through Resources Online

From 9 June 2026, NVCPs, petroleum Environment Plans and Oil Spill Contingency Plans lodge through Resources Online. The statutory obligations have not changed. The way you lodge them has. What moved, what stayed on a separate system, and the three checks worth doing before the next lodgement.

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Recent Insights
Australian mining landscape — international investor and FIRB compliance context
International Investors & FIRB

Beyond FIRB: Australian Mining Compliance — Obligations After Completion

June 2026
SA Exploration Release Area landscape
Exploration & Regulatory Approvals

EPEPRs and the SA Exploration Release Areas: What Explorers Need to Have Ready

May 2026
Aerial view of an open-cut gold pit in the Northern Territory with terraced benches and pit-floor water collection — visual cue for the NT mine closure transition under the Mining Management Act 2001
Mine Closure & Environmental Compliance

NT Mine Closure Under the Mining Management Act 2001 — and the Transition Ahead

May 2026
Woomera Prohibited Area aerial landscape
Regulatory Access & Defence Coordination

Woomera Prohibited Area: Access, Zones & Defence Coordination for Explorers

April 2026
Gawler Craton pastoral country
Land Access & Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement on Pastoral Country: Running Access for Gawler Craton Exploration

April 2026
Red earth and desert oak country in remote South Australia at late afternoon light — the kind of pastoral lease country where Aboriginal heritage clearance work happens
Native Title & Cultural Heritage

Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 (SA) Clearance: What Explorers Need to Plan For

March 2026
Stacks of unprocessed paperwork binders with a businessman in the background — the operational reality when tenement expenditure records fall behind
Tenement Management

Why Mining Tenement Expenditure Reporting Goes Wrong

March 2026
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