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Statement by the Office of Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, on 20 October 2005: N1/N2 Winelands Toll Road: Minister Announces Decision on Appeals
Ministry for Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Statement by the Office of Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, on 20 October 2005: N1/N2 Winelands Toll Road: Minister Announces Decision on Appeals
Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Minister of Environmental Affairs & Tourism, has considered the appeals against the decision to grant authorisation, in terms of Section 22 of the Environment Conservation Act, No. 73 of 1989, for the construction of the N1/N2 Winelands Toll Highway, in the Western Cape. The full text of the Minister’s decision on the appeals and his directives are attached below. The decision spells out further steps to be taken by the applicant, after which the Minister will issue a revised Record of Decision.
A graphical representation of the “cut and cover” tunnel and an artists impression thereof, as contained within the decision, is available via email on request from [email protected] or [email protected] as either an Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf) or as in Tagged Image File (.tif) format – each of which is slightly larger than 2MB in size.
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