"The MPRDA requires a mine to have an environmental management programme report, which becomes legally binding. But it is argued that is only applicable to the mine site.
"If there is any spillage, or migration, of radioactive and toxic waste, that is not regulated under the MPRDA."
Neither was it regulated in terms of the NNRA, which also only regulated this waste when it was on mine property.
"Whatever residue... is outside the [mine's] area [of operation], that is not regulated. At the moment, it falls outside the mandate of all these organs of state," Liefferink said.
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