This week we organised a workshop to finalise and validate the Mines and Minerals (Environment Protection) #Regulation, 2025, which will replace the 2013 regulation. Great work by Tamba Sangbah Esq and team, along with our partners including EIA consultants, MDAs, civil society, and regulated enterprises.

This week we organized a workshop to finalize and validate the Mines and Minerals (Environment Protection) #Regulation, 2025, which will replace the 2013 regulation. Great work by Tamba Sangbah Esq and team, along with our partners including EIA consultants, MDAs, civil society, and regulated enterprises.

The revised regulation breaks down the #EIA process into distinct regulatory decisions and sets binding social and environmental conditions. It strengthens #mine #closure obligations by making them iterative from feasibility stage, enforcing #progressive #rehabilitation, introducing standard costing templates and a range of financial instruments for #provisioning, and requiring #care and #maintenance plans during temporary shutdowns. It also calls for comprehensive #Stakeholder #Engagement #Plans, institutionalizes #grievance #redress mechanisms, enforces plain-language #disclosure, embeds root-cause analysis of #incident #reports, and introduces scaled penalties with proportionate #compliance orders.

These new and updated measures will protect the state from environmental #liabilities, raise the caliber of investors by ensuring predictability and alignment with both national and international frameworks, and rebuild community #trust through #structured #participation, #open #disclosure, and #accountable #grievance #systems. They will also reduce environmental harm through modern #standards, #monitoring, and #enforcement. Most importantly, they will position Sierra Leone’s mining sector as both #competitive and #compliant.

Once enacted and enforced, this will mark a major milestone. The mining sector is central to Sierra Leone’s development, and this step is critical to ensuring that mining drives growth without leaving behind pollution, abandoned sites, or broken promises.

We will share a short video once the regulation is enacted, featuring our LACE directorate and select partners who will dive deeper into its contents and intended effects.

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