Agenda

CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Tuesday 24 August 2010

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Registration & morning coffee

9:00 IIR Welcome & opening remarks from the Chair

9:10 Keynote Address: Evolution of EIS in the Last 12 Months...
Steve Mill, Executive Director, Significant Projects Coordination Department of Infrastructure and Planning

9:50 Update on the EIA Reform Process in WA
Dr Paul Vogel, Chairman, WA EPA

10:30 Morning tea

11:00 A Case for Strategic Environmental Assessment in Queensland

This paper describes how Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) allows the integration of environmental elements into strategic decision making at all stages, and tiers, of strategic intervention and development co-operation, and include social and economic aspects.

Authors will also present two hypothetical case studies to demonstrate how Strategic Environmental Assessment might be applied with a range of benefits:

• The first looks at how siting and planning an industrial precinct can enhance orderly planning and development and assist appropriate industrial development.
• The second case study examines development of a hypothetical policy in relation to ongoing mining and related development in a notional remote area of Australia.

Both case studies will examine the application of SEA in terms of methodology, achievement of outcomes and benefits for stakeholders and consider the linkage to international targets, such as the Millennium Development Goals.

Brett Loney, Environmental Manager and Senior Site Executive, Chalco Australia Ltd
Claire Gronow, Principal Environmental Scientist, GHD

11:40 The Expanding Role of an EIS Project Manager
Dr Michael Ryan, Managing Director, Gamut Consulting

12:20 Lunch

1:20 CASE STUDY: Murrumbidgee to Googong Water Transfer - Piping a Path Across Borders: Multi-Jurisdictional Planning Approval Means Multiple EIS's

Investigate the tricks and trap of being required to prepare 3 environmental impact assessments for 1 project. ACTEW, is implementing a project to transfer up to 100 ML/day water from the Murrumbidgee River to Googong Reservoir.

The project, due to its geography and complexity, requires planning approval from no less than four jurisdictions. Hear ACTEW’s implementation of an intensive program of stakeholder engagement to proactively manage the high risks associated with delays to the project and the complexity of disparate planning systems for which no precedent or bilateral agreement existed.

Chris Webb, Communications and Governance Manager, Bulk Water Alliance, ACTEW Corporation

2:00 Incorporating CSG Water Management Plans into your EIS
Jon Fennell, Industry Manager - Water Resources, WorleyParsons

2:30 Assessing and Managing Cumulative Impacts

• Understanding cumulative impacts and how they manifest
• The requirements to address cumulative impacts in project level EIAs
• Opportunities and challenges for assessing cumulative impacts
• Strategies to manage cumulative impacts during project implementation

Dr Daniel Franks, Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland

3:00 Afternoon tea

3:30 Mining for Approval

• Interpretation of the assessment requirements and evolving expectations over time
• Timelines and the challenges project’s face in achieving these
• Cumulative impact implications for project’s

Ngaire Tranter, Environmental Officer, McCollum Environmental Management Services

4:00 Social Performance Management in PNG and Social Impact Assessment in Queensland: Differentiating the Approaches and Identifying Key Learnings

• When and why a Social Performance Management approach is essential and how it has been applied in PNG
• How this approach differs to the policy associated with Social Impact Assessment in Queensland
• Key learnings
• Where to from here?

Danielle Martin, Principal, Coffey Environments

4:30 Closing remarks

6:00 Conference Dinner: (cancelled)

CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Wednesday 25 August 2010

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Morning coffee

9:00 Opening remarks from the Chair

9:10 Update on SA EIS
Karen Ferguson, Chief Environmental Officer, Department of Planning and Local Government SA

9:50 Social Impact Management Plans

• The development of Social Impact Management Plan is a commitment made under the Qld SRC policy to strengthen the social impact assessment component of Environmental Impact Statements
• Social Impact Management Plans will identify impacts, benefits, mitigation and management strategies for new and expanding resource projects in Qld

Freya Walton, Director of Social Impact Assessment, Department of Infrastructure and Planning

10:30 Morning tea

11:00 CASE STUDY: Surat Basin Rail Project
Rouven Lau, Associate Director, AECOM

11:40 Australia Pacific LNG Project EIS
A World Scale Coal Seam Gas to LNG Project
Tasman Graham, General Manager - Infrastructure and Environment, WorleyParsons

12:20 Lunch

1:20 PANEL DISCUSSION: Government Representatives Will Answer your Questions and Consider Common Mistakes Proponents Make in Preparing their EIS; How the EIS Process is Improving; and the Future of the EIS Process

Paul Purdon, Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport, NT
Karen Ferguson, Department of Planning and Local Government SA
Dr Paul Vogel, WA EPA
Mr Steve Mill, Department of Infrastructure and Planning, QLD

2:50 Afternoon tea

3:20 The Role of EIS in the Overall Mining Lease Application Process

• Review of the overall Project Development system and the purpose and use of the EIS process
• Methods for maximising project benefits from the EIS process
• Tricks and traps of the overall process and mechanisms for avoiding pitfalls

Darren Fooks, Partner - Corporate, Energy and Resources, Projects and Infrastructure, Clayton Utz Australian Lawyers

4:00 The Changing Face of Social Impact Assessments in Queensland
Amanda Campbell, Consultant - Stakeholder Engagement, Parsons Brinckerhoff

4:30 Closing remarks from the Chair

End of conference

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