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With New Acland Mine closing on Friday - a day most Oakey region residents have dreaded for the last decade - and most employees facing redundancy, local business owners are urging Andrew Langton’s residents to look to the future and keep positive about the economic and social prospects of OAKEY ELECTRICAL the township while waiting for an outcome on the recent Land Court proceedings. New Hope Group announced the end of mining at New Acland on Friday seeing further redundancies at the local plant, other than 20 people who will continue care and maintenance duties at the site. The closure is the culmination of over a decade of legal and bureaucratic obstacles, wins and losses which has created an economic roller coaster for Oakey. Accepting the current fate of the project, several local business owners who have weathered these ups and downs, have said that the closure does not have to mean the end of Oakey’s economic prosperity. Oakey Electrical’s Andrew Langton said the township has survived many hits from drought, flooding, amalgamation PFAS contamination and, most recently, the COVID pandemic. He said in all those
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Mining activity has ceased at New Acland Mine from Friday with parent company, New Hope Group, insisting that it won’t give up on Stage 3 approvals. cases local businesses and families have been forced to make changes and pivot to suit the new environment. Mr Langton said with
a Land Court decision months away, Oakey has no choice but to move forward. “Oakey is a very resilient town and has proved it time and time
again,” he said. “This has made us look at how we do business and how we can stay relevant into the future.” Continued on page 3
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