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SEQ - Cumulative Impacts

Published 2nd October 14 12:00 AM

How to keep all the balls in the air

A full day forum by the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand
South East Queensland Division (EIANZ-SEQ)

DATE: WEDNESDAY 19 November 2014
TIME: 8:30am to 4:30pm (Registration from 8am and Networking drinks from 4:30pm – 5:30pm)
VENUE: Hatch, Paddington Barracks, 61 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane
PRICE: Member $300 Non Member $375 Student/Pensioner $100.00

The consideration of cumulative impacts has long been the nemesis of proponents and assessment managers alike. Getting your own house in order has proven a relatively trivial exercise when compared with the challenge of understanding how what you may be proposing to do here, relates to what they are proposing to do there. Policies and practices for sharing knowledge and the development of expertise to understand often complex, synergistic impact relationships have been slow to develop.

This one-day conference, sponsored by Hatch, will deliver a combination of reflections on progress made, together with insights into current and often innovative approaches to understanding and managing cumulative impacts.

The assembled speakers are amongst the most respected practitioners from government, industry and consulting practice. Their presentations will reflect extensive experience and varied perspectives of a diverse range of industries – from coastal development to outback mining. Our Key Note Speaker, Professor Chris Moran of the University of Queensland’s Sustainable Minerals Institute will seek to leverage the Institute’s world-leading research dedicated to finding knowledge-based solutions to the sustainability challenges of the minerals industry, offering insights that will perhaps challenge those of us working in disparate fields to think more broadly.

The conference will provide a forum to refine our understanding of the challenges posed by cumulative impacts, to share experience and ‘lessons learnt’, and to debate the likely success of proposed new approaches. Attendance will benefit professionals engaged in project design, impact assessment and mitigation, whether they be in government, academia or the private sector. Students and early career professionals are particularly encouraged to attend. The conference will finish mid-afternoon providing ample opportunity for networking.

Program


Time


Presentation


Speaker


8:30 – 8:45


Keynote address

Prof. David Brereton, Deputy Director, Research Integration Sustainable Minerals Institute


9:30 - 10:00


A View from EHP

Lindsay Delzoppo, Director, Impact Assessment & Operational Support Regulatory Capability & Customer Service Branch, Dept of Environment and Heritage Protection

10.00 – 10.30


Cumulative Impacts – A legal perspective


Olivia Williamson, Associate – Planning and Environment, HopgoodGanim


10.30 – 11.00


Morning Tea

11.00 – 11.30


A Consulting Perspective on Cumulative Impacts


Scott Hanna, Director Australia-Asia Region, Environmental Services Group, Hatch


11.30 – 12.00


Reflections on dredging within the Great Barrier Reef


Carol Conacher, Principal Ecologist, FRC Environmental


12.00 – 12.30


Industries cumulative impacts on our Freshwater Environments


Peter Gehrke, Technical Princpal and Work Group Manager Environmental, Opus International Consultants


12.30 – 1.30


Lunch

1.30 - 2.00


BHP’s interest in cumulative impacts in Western Australia


Bryce Skarratt, Environmental Approvals - Team Leader Strategic Environmental Assessment, BHP Billiton


2.00 – 2.30


Cumulative Impacts – Planners Eat Them for Breakfast’


David Perkins, Area Manager and Senior Principal, Cardno


2.30 – 3.00


Afternoon Tea

3.00 – 3.30

Assessing cumulative impacts of coastal development using spatial scenarios and Bayesian networks: a case study on the Great Barrier Reef


Ben Reid, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies


3.30 – 4.00


Integrating the social and environmental aspects of development


Michele Fulcher, Anthropologica


4.00 – 4.30


Open floor discussion with speakers


4.30 – 5.30


Networking drinks


This event will count as 7 points towards your EIANZ CEnvP Professional Development Log

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Event details

When: 19 November 2014

Cost: AU $ 375 (Inc. GST)

Registrations Open: 22nd October 14 12:00 AM

Registrations Close: 19th November 14 11:59 PM

Places Available: 26

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Published 2nd October 14 12:00 AM