Donna PershkePershke Consulting Pty Ltd
Donna is based in Western Australia and has over twenty five years’ experience in environmental consulting with the last twenty spent predominantly consulting to the mining sector. She works with mining companies and teams of technical specialists to develop mine closure plans and associated mine closure cost estimates. Drawing on approaches used by the land and infrastructure development sector, Donna has recently contributed to a new methodology for final land use planning for mine closure. This aims to challenge conventional thinking and identify innovative approaches to closure which are more cost effective and result in a final land use with positive socio-economic value.
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Workshop Convenors
Wednesday: Landform evolution modelling for mine rehabilitation EAMS-SIBERIA Workshop Friday: Stream 1 - Best Practice Ecological Rehabilitation of Mined Lands Workshop Stream 2 - New practices to advance mine rehab in the Hunter Valley Workshop |
Workshop Précis
Pathways to relinquishment and opportunities to transition to productive alternate land uses.
Background: Using the relinquishment process to transition to alternate productive land uses potentially has significant benefits for all parties; mining companies, regulators and communities. However, there are also a number of challenges in achieving this transition to the benefit of all. The challenges include:
Purpose: The purpose of this workshop is to explore the frameworks and pathways which could facilitate transition of mine sites to alternative productive land uses that are acceptable to regulators, valued by the community and provide a more certain route to relinquishment of liability for mining companies. The intent of the workshop is to develop recommendations for improved relinquishment and land use transition processes which will be taken forward by the Tom Farrell Institute for further discussion with interested parties. The workshop will discuss:
Pathways to relinquishment and opportunities to transition to productive alternate land uses.
Background: Using the relinquishment process to transition to alternate productive land uses potentially has significant benefits for all parties; mining companies, regulators and communities. However, there are also a number of challenges in achieving this transition to the benefit of all. The challenges include:
- Current regulatory and land tenure frameworks
- Providing for the long term management of residual risk / liability for a site if a future land use fails
- Lack of current mechanisms to facilitate the alignment of mining companies and investors in post mining land uses, with regional development plans
Purpose: The purpose of this workshop is to explore the frameworks and pathways which could facilitate transition of mine sites to alternative productive land uses that are acceptable to regulators, valued by the community and provide a more certain route to relinquishment of liability for mining companies. The intent of the workshop is to develop recommendations for improved relinquishment and land use transition processes which will be taken forward by the Tom Farrell Institute for further discussion with interested parties. The workshop will discuss:
- Existing frameworks and pathways to mine relinquishment that satisfy stakeholders (government, future landowner and community).
- Who is responsible for different parts of the transition and relinquishment process and where a mining company’s responsibility for facilitating a future land use stops and the new land user’s starts.
- The role of government in facilitating a transition to a productive land use.
- Who needs to be involved in the relinquishment and transition process and why.
- The alternate future pathways for transition and relinquishment that could be possible and current barriers to achieving these pathways now.
- What needs to change in terms of policy and/or practice to achieve alternative pathways and the outcomes identified.
- Recommendations for possible alternate frameworks for relinquishment and land use transition