Social Impact Assessment - McArthur River Mining

Situation Analysis
Figure 1: Stakeholder Classifications
INFLUENCE OR POWER
KEEP SATISFIED
Local business organisations
Other surrounding communities
MONITOR
Pastoralists
Darwin business organisations
Tourists
MANAGE CLOSELY
Traditional Owners
Communities – Yanyuwa
Communities – Gurdanji
Communities – Mara
Communities – Garrawa
Community groups
Indigenous / local services
and NGOs
KEEP INFORMED
Employees
Roper Gulf Shire Council
NT Government and agencies
Australian Government
INTEREST
All stakeholders were identified and classified according to the following steps:
1. Identify stakeholder groups
2. Identification criteria to ensure no stakeholder groups are missed:
• Responsibility: The people for which the operation is responsible for (employees, etc.).
• Influence: Stakeholders with influence or decision-making power (authorities, shareholders,
pressure groups).
• Proximity: Stakeholders who interact most with the operation (employees, contractors, local
communities, business partners, local suppliers, local infrastructure providers).
• Dependency: Stakeholders directly or indirectly dependent on Xstrata Zinc (only employer or
sole purchaser in remote area); or dependent on Xstrata Zinc for other issues such as school,
hospital, water, electricity supply, etc.
• Representation: Stakeholders that can claim to represent a constituency (MPs, NGOs, union,
community leaders, and special interest groups).
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