Minister Visits Walsh Quarries
RAYMOND WALSH proudly guided Minister Batchelor around his family’s quarry and new processing plant.
REPRESENTATIVES of the CMPA Management Committee met with the Minister for Energy and Resources, Peter Batchelor on Tuesday 15th December 2009 during Minister Batchelor’s visit to Walsh Ballarat Quarries Dunnstown operation near Ballarat.
The Minister toured the site and inspected the new processing plant that has just been built and commissioned at the base of the existing pit. The Minister was also accompanied by the local member for Ballarat East, Geoff Howard.
“It was a great opportunity to explain to the Minister the issues facing an independent, family run quarry business in regional Victoria” said Raymond Walsh. “I believe the Minister now has a deeper understanding of how a quarry operates as well as the requirement for resource security and a reasonable planning approvals process to underpin the sort of investment my family and I have made at Dunnstown. I believe in the future of the quarrying industry, but there needs to be some degree of certainty before any quarry commits to spending millions of dollars in plant and equipment.”
to (L to R) Roger Buckley, David Eldridge, Minister Batchelor and Tim Bird .
It was also a good opportunity for the CMPA Chairperson, Tim Bird, Management Committee member, David Eldridge and CMPA Executive Director, Roger Buckley to discuss over lunchtime sandwiches the contribution the CMPA has made to the Victorian construction material processors industry over the last 10 years.
The CMPA’s role in building networks between operators and suppliers, education and training to improve member’s capacity and confidence to invest and to represent member’s views to government were outlined.
Howard (L) plans for his quarry.
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