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GOLD miner Neville Perry has been told to pay $1.25 million to the Victorian Government to remove 60 trees from his bush block.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mr Perry has now abandoned his mine project near Talbot in disbelief after fighting the Government for four years.<\/p>\n

Mr Perry said he was shocked to be asked for the $1.25 million compensation by environment department officials, who would not allow him to plant other trees to offset any vegetation loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state\u2019s native vegetation laws are out of control, there is no fixed formula for it. It changes depending on who you talk to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said Government officials told him driving an excavator, tractor or even a car near a tree on the block would be counted as a \u201closs\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say the tree\u2019s roots have been crushed and it will die \u2014 what a lot of nonsense,\u201d Mr Perry said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018If you come back in five years and the trees are still alive, which of course they will be, will you pay me back?\u2019 They said \u2018no\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Individual branches growing out of tree stumps were also counted as single trees by authorities, so one tree with three branches was officially three trees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know lots of miners who won\u2019t invest in Victoria any more. They\u2019ve gone to other states, and these biodiversity laws are just out of control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Perry wants to look for gold on what was called the Mia Mia Swamp in central Victoria, an area dotted with mullock heaps and diggers\u2019 holes created during a gold rush in the 1850s when 15,000 prospectors crowded the site.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Every single tree was removed during the 19th-century rush for shack building, firewood or to shore up the shallow shafts the diggers used in the search for alluvial gold several metres deep.<\/div>\n

The site was picked over by desperate men during the Great Depression in the 1930s and has progressively become chopped up, choked by brambles and noxious weeds and infested by rabbits.<\/p>\n

Mr Perry said he made a \u201creasonable living\u201d using excavators and detectors to look for what old-timers missed and has a 25-year track record of \u201ccleaning up\u201d old mine sites that he is proud of.<\/p>\n

Because of a salinity planning overlay he needed a permit for the work, which triggered the biodiversity laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey shut down my mining operation. Now I can\u2019t even take out the weeds \u2014 it is bullying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Weekly Times Now<\/a> reports, an Environment, Land, Water and Planning Department spokesman said the department had been in contact with Mr Perry for several years over his mining project.<\/p>\n

The spokesman said Mr Perry had been advised on the native vegetation and biodiversity information he needed to submit so his work plan could be further assessed.<\/p>\n

The DELWP would then give more advice on the likely cost of Mr Perry\u2019s offsets, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n

Mr Perry said he now faced even tougher environmental restrictions to remove noxious weeds from the site.<\/p>\n

A clean-up on the weed-\u00adinfested 14ha block has become further bogged down in red tape in the past year despite support for the rehabilitation project from Landcare and the local council.<\/p>\n

CHRIS McLENNAN, The Weekly Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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