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By Pablo Perez-Reigosa
There are 420 Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plants across Europe that thermally treat household and comparable waste to generate electricity and heat (CEWEP 2010). The purpose of this paper is to present a high-level view of the statistics and trends emerging from the management and treatment of wastes in Europe and to provide information for the role of Waste-to-Energy plants in the overall management of wastes.
By Melanie Price
The community of the South Coast of Western Australia is widely recognised as a motivated and educated community that is passionate about the sustainability of natural resources in the region. Formed in 1994, the South Coast Natural Resource Management Inc (South Coast NRM Inc.) is an incorporated, community-owned, non profit association, which is the peak regional body that brings people, organisations and information together so that the regional community helps drive sustainable natural resource management (NRM) with positive social and economic outcomes.
By Tim Marshall and Phil Sinclair
The Department of Defence through VicUrban (the Victorian Urban Land Development Authority) has remediated and is in the final stages of developing the Former Albion Explosives Factory at Cairnlea, on the emerging western fringe of Melbourne. Defence / VicUrban appointed the authors to conduct the statutory environmental audit of 180 ha where the main explosives manufacturing activities occurred.
By Alistair Sharp-Paul
The public standing of mines in developing countries requires their benefits to flow at both national and local community level. As well, there is pressure on mining companies (and their financiers, insurers and shareholders) to catalyse socio-economic development across sectoral boundaries and, especially, beyond mine closure.
Aligning Project and Community Goals for Mutually Beneficial Outcomes
By Danielle Martin
Even on the most high-risk projects in some of the most challenging locations, it is possible and even advantageous to progress the social and environmental aspirations of host communities and contribute towards improving the lives of those communities.
By Ulf Lindmark, PE, BCEE and Steve Morrill, PE
In September 2008, Coffey Environments (CE) was retained by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to implement the remedial action plan for a proposed 2.5-hectare elementary school site that would provide 950 much-needed seats in a commercial/residential area just south of downtown Los Angeles, California, USA.
By Alistair Sharp-Paul
A project's approval credentials have two components:
- The competence of its planning, design and safeguards
- Legitimacy—is the project generally a good and proper thing to do.
Project permitting is ultimately and properly a political decision. Project
credentials matter.
By Justin Lumsden, Coffey Environments, Kay Stritzke, Coffey Environments
The former Western Australian (WA) Government Railway Workshops (the Workshops) in Midland, also referred to as the ‘Helena East Precinct’ in planning and approval terms, are a unique example of the early 20th century Australian rail industry and a significant link to the social history of the Midland Township and people of Western Australia.
By Alistair Sharp-Paul
In the textbooks, environmental impact assessment—EIA—integrates social, economic and environmental factors into a ‘sustainable’ development proposal. Government professionals assess the proposal and provide advice to the minister, who in turn decides on whether the project proceeds.
By Alistair Sharp-Paul
A mineral discovery places a company’s exploration manager or board of directors in the position of having to decide whether to commit further expenditure to develop the resource.
The ultimate objective of mineral exploration is the development of a commercial mine. Therefore, the risks associated with the successful development of a potential mine are relevant to the expenditure decision.
Presentation by Ulf M. Lindmark, PE, BCEE, CHMM Long Beach, California, USA
The site under investigation was formerly used as a plating facility from 1962 to 1988. Concurrently during this period, the plating company conducted similar operations on an adjoining property to the south which they owned while they only leased the site.
