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wisely as possible guided by an updated National Environmental Impact Assessment study and the
recently announced national spatial plan.

So why would we even be thinking of bauxite mining which we have done since the 1950s yet people
mainly point to the red mud lakes and increasing poverty after over 60 years of being a prime bauxite
producer in an unpredictable industry?

If we have enough technological and industrial capacity to process bauxite to higher levels of value-
added products then the Government could consider importing bauxite for this reason without mining
in the Cockpit Country.