A council has accused the Department for Economy of being “in breach of its obligations” over mineral prospecting licences.
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council was asked to consider a total of four prospecting licence applications from Flintridge Resources, Karelian Diamond Resources and Mount Castle Trust in May, which DE said it ‘intends to grant’.
But the council has raised a series of concerns including withheld information on the firms’ “full programme of works” and says it is “not known” how the Department considers the equality, good relations, sustainable development or rural proofing implications of the applications or what NIEA’s view is.
