Conference Archives - 2014

Mined Land Rehabilitation Conference
25th September, Singleton Diggers, Singleton NSW
Our 4th annual instalment of the Mined Land Rehabilitation Conference was held on Thursday 25th September at Singleton Diggers.  With over 200 delegates and presenters in attendance, the conference was a lively event, with a very full program of presenters.  The feedback that we received was very positive, and delegates relished the chance to network with colleagues from their various fields.

Below is the list of presenters and their presentations

1. Peter Erskine, Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, University of Queensland - Ecological Rehabilitation: the past, the present and the future
2. Matthew Newton, NSW Trade and Investment - Expectations and Future Directions of MOP Guidelines
3. Sharon Molloy & Dominik Nicholls, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage - Developing and implementing Government Policy.  A case study - Upper Hunter Strategic Assessment BCAM
4. Martin Fallding, Stephen Bell & Bob Dupont, Land and Environment Planning Consultants - Effective Biodiversity Offsets:  Improving planning, valuation and monitoring practice
5. Luke Bewley, Australian Department of Industry - Australian Department of Industry Multiple Land Use Framework (MLUF)
6. Peter Elliott, B Howard, D Pershke and M Jones, URS Australia - Negotiated net benefit - better mine closure outcomes for less money
7. Rob Loch, Landloch Pty Ltd - Meeting new challenges in waste landform design
8. Rod Eckels, Landforma Pty Ltd - Rehabilitating mines - using natural landforms
9. Ian Oliver, Laura Kuginis & Carmen Castor, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage - Ecological rehabilitation of self-sustaining plant communities
10. Barbara Drigo & Ian Anderson, University of Western Sydney - Carbon flows from plants to soil microbes
11. Alexandra Callen, John Clulow and Michael Mahony, University of Newcastle - Build it and they still may not come - using new knowledge to move beyond physical restoration of amphibian habitat
12. Carmen Castor & Yovonne Nussbaumer, University of Newcastle - Promoting herbaceous plant populations on mine rehabilitation in the Hunter Valley
13. Tasman Willis, Mangoola Coal - Developing a natural landform in its mine overburden rehabilitation
14. Bill Baxter, Rio Tinto Coal Australia, Coal & Allied - Coal & Allied’s recent efforts to restor Central Hunter Ironbark Communities
15. Joe Thompson & Steve Eccles, Hunter Local Land Services - Wybong Catchment Health Improvement Project (Wybong CHIP)
16. John Sanderson & Adrian Morphett, Earth Systems Victoria - A transportable process for biomass waste management and biochar production at remote mine sites

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