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
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
- Peter Erskine, Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, University of Queensland - Ecological Rehabilitation: the past, the present and the future
- Matthew Newton, NSW Trade and Investment - Expectations and Future Directions of MOP Guidelines
- Sharon Molloy & Dominik Nicholls, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage - Developing and implementing Government Policy. A case study - Upper Hunter Strategic Assessment BCAM
- Martin Fallding, Stephen Bell & Bob Dupont, Land and Environment Planning Consultants - Effective Biodiversity Offsets: Improving planning, valuation and monitoring practice
- Luke Bewley, Australian Department of Industry - Australian Department of Industry Multiple Land Use Framework (MLUF)
- Peter Elliott, B Howard, D Pershke and M Jones, URS Australia - Negotiated net benefit - better mine closure outcomes for less money
- Rob Loch, Landloch Pty Ltd - Meeting new challenges in waste landform design
- Rod Eckels, Landforma Pty Ltd - Rehabilitating mines - using natural landforms
- Ian Oliver, Laura Kuginis & Carmen Castor, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage - Ecological rehabilitation of self-sustaining plant communities
- Barbara Drigo & Ian Anderson, University of Western Sydney - Carbon flows from plants to soil microbes
- 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
- Carmen Castor & Yovonne Nussbaumer, University of Newcastle - Promoting herbaceous plant populations on mine rehabilitation in the Hunter Valley
- Tasman Willis, Mangoola Coal - Developing a natural landform in its mine overburden rehabilitation
- Bill Baxter, Rio Tinto Coal Australia, Coal & Allied - Coal & Allied’s recent efforts to restor Central Hunter Ironbark Communities
- Joe Thompson & Steve Eccles, Hunter Local Land Services - Wybong Catchment Health Improvement Project (Wybong CHIP)
- John Sanderson & Adrian Morphett, Earth Systems Victoria - A transportable process for biomass waste management and biochar production at remote mine sites
Clean Energy Regional Responses Conference
21st November, Hunter TAFE, Kurri Kurri
Run in conjunction with the Office of Environment and Heritage, the conference was very successful with over 150 delegates and presenters in attendance.
21st November, Hunter TAFE, Kurri Kurri
Run in conjunction with the Office of Environment and Heritage, the conference was very successful with over 150 delegates and presenters in attendance.
Below is the list of presenters and their presentations (please note this list only has links to those presentations that we have been given permission to share)
Poster Presentations
Julia Sierck - A brief review of Renewable Energies in Germany
Dan Musil
Chris Purkiss
Andrew Nadolny
Terry McBride - The Repower Port Augusta Campaign
Paul Petersen
Christina Kirsch
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- Stephen Bygrave - BZE - Raising the reality of a zero emissions future
- Joe Herbertson, The Crucible Group - Resource Recovery and Clean Energy through Innovation and Regional Collaboration
- Jarra Hicks, Community Power Agency - Emergent dynamics of community-owned renewable energy in regional communities
- Leslie Williams, NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Renewable Energy - Renewable Energy NSW
- Kim Mallee, Byron Shire Council and North Coast Energy Forum - Working regionally for renewable energy
- Daniel Spencer, Youth Climate Coalition - Repower Port Augusta; Concentrated solar thermal replacing end of life coal fired power station
- Craig Hanicek, SERREE (South East Region of Renewable Energy Excellence) - The SERREE Industry Cluster - a regional exemplar of renewable energy excellence with a global footprint
- Mark Byrne, Total Environment Centre - Cranking the levers for decentralised energy
- Robyn Donnelly, Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals - The Cooperative Model for community ownership of renewable energy
- David Bradney, University of Newcastle - Small wind turbine research at the University of Newcastle
- Gary Ellem, University of Newcastle - A SAVi future for transport
- Ke Meng, University of Newcastle - Environmentally sustainable planning of large wind farms for wind power generation
- Sohum Gandhi, Energence - Gippsland Growers Go Green
- Paul Smith - Loadbearing Hydrowall Technology for ease of dwelling construction, a supply of water, thermal mass, passive heating and cooling capabilities. An off-grid perspective
- Anna Bruce, University of New South Wales - Mapping the impact of and investment in PV in regional Australia
- Tim de Grauw, APD Power - Maximising the benefits of renewable energy by true integration into power networks
- Chris Denny, The Observatory, Southern Cross Resorts - A pragmatic approach to business sustainability
- Andy Leadbeatter, Solar Australia - $0 upfront commercial scale solar PV pays off its loan with electricity bill savings
- Kerry Chorvat, Mark Group Australia - Creating an energy sustainable home
- Jack Archer, Regional Australia Institute - The regional development implications from clean energy
- Vince Zagarella, NSW Trade and Investment - GreenPower Program
- Daniel MacDonald, CLEANaS - Kooragang Island Wind Turbine - Bid for Community Ownership, - Lessons Learnt
- Steve Roberts, EcoReps - PYROLYSIS - the TRU Pyrolysis Plant
- Dylan Gower, CLEAN Cowra Inc. - Critical mass - CLEAN Cowra Inc perspective
- Maaike Gobel, Green Energy Trading - Clean energy certificate opportunities for renewable energy installations and energy efficiency upgrades
- Frank Clancy, Hunter TAFE - The Associate Degree of Applied Engineering (Renewable Energy Technologies) offered at Hunter TAFE
- Ben Vaughan, University of Newcastle - Solar Paint: A Hunter based solution to clean energy
- Michael Qualmann, Power Smart - The German experience: As seen through the eyes of a German- Australian electrical engineer and clean energy advocate
- Gary Ellem, University of Newcastle / Varley Group - Fast charge batteries and in-route charging - an emerging option for low cost freight electrification
- Chris Fell, CSIRO - CSIRO PV Performance Laboratory
Poster Presentations
Julia Sierck - A brief review of Renewable Energies in Germany
Dan Musil
Chris Purkiss
Andrew Nadolny
Terry McBride - The Repower Port Augusta Campaign
Paul Petersen
Christina Kirsch
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