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12 Dec 2024

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Reuters, mining.com

Portugal: Savannah Resources gets temporary land access for lithium project despite local opposition

"Savannah Resources gets temporary land access for Portuguese lithium project," 12 December 2024

London-listed Savannah Resources has secured temporary land access to a large chunk of its future lithium mining site in northern Portugal, allowing it to conduct fieldwork and begin the second phase of drilling, the company said...

But Savannah... is expected to continue to face opposition from locals and environmentalists in the form of protests, legal challenges and refusals to sell land...

Private owners hold around 24% of the land needed, while 75% is made up of the traditional “baldios”, or common land.

Savannah has said it would, if necessary, ask Portugal’s government to authorize compulsory land acquisitions in the public interest... Savannah said it had been granted by the government access to the project’s C-100 mining lease, which covers over 520 hectares of land, for a year.

“All relevant stakeholders and landowners have been informed, more than half of the total compensation fees have been paid already, and the required notice has been published in the government’s official gazette,” the company said. Savannah said it would continue commercial negotiations on land purchases and leases.

Locals’ association United in Defence of Covas do Barroso said the decision was unacceptable as common land belonged to the population and some of the plots were used for agriculture, putting farmers at risk...

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