Resource companies and their legacy
Resource companies and their legacy Conference Paper
Rural Futures Matter: Ideas and Actions for a Sustainable Australia
- Author(s): Wand, P
- Published: 2011
- Publisher: Flinders University
Abstract: Typically, a big resource company provides its local region with water, roads, railways, airfields and infrastructure, which it needs for its operations, but also shares with the local community. It often provides educational, sporting and healthcare facilities, not only to keep its own employees trained, healthy and happy – but also to build relationships with the local community among whom it operates. This has long been the situation in the larger mining or extractive industry centres like Broken Hill, Port Pirie, Kalgoorlie and my home town, Wollongong. Now it is becoming increasingly common in the areas where neighbouring communities are much smaller and often with a predominantly Aboriginal population.
- Urls: http://www.nintione.com.au/resource/NintiOne_PaulWandRuralFuturesSummitt2011.pdf
- Publisher Location: Adelaide
- Keywords: Rural futures