18 October 2006 – As well as providing senior managers and environment officers from mining companies with the opportunity to share their vision for the future, the Forum provided local landholders and Traditional Owners with the opportunity to voice their fears and air concerns about impacts to agriculture and the environment.

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PROGRAM

Welcome to Country: Lindsay Black

Housekeeping/Introduction: Peter Dunne (FBA Board and a landholder)

Setting the Scene

General State of the Industry - Global to Local: Peter Smith (Ensham Resources Pty Ltd) 1.45MB

International/National/State Drivers: Peter Roe (BMA Coal) 48KB

Current and Future Extent of Mining in the Fitzroy Basin: Phil Ferenczi (Department of Mines & Energy) 3.15MB

Mining Tenure: Ken Goodwin (Department of Mines & Energy)

Mining Cycle

Environmental Regulation of the Mining Industry: Melissa Wells (Environmental Protection Agency) 298KB

Some important Obligations, Rights & Responsibilities of Miners & Landholders: Andrew Palmer (Rees R & Sydney Jones lawyers) 992KB

Review of Mineral Resources Act: Bevan Bailey (DME)

Issues

Identifying social & economic issues in the Bowen Basin: John Rolfe (Central Queensland University) 36KB

Open cut spoil rehabilitation: John Merritt (Anglo Coal Australia) 89.4KB

Mine rehabiliation - A Queensland perspective: Michael Rodgerson (Environmental Protection Agency) 0.98MB

Biodiversity protection: Frank Ford (Anglo Coal Australia) 46.7KB

Biodiversity Issues in the Bowen Basin - Technical tools & some possible solutions: Geoffery Smith (Fitzroy Basin Association) 360KB

Planning for open cut floodplain mining: Shane Flint (Ensham Resources) 335 KB

Coal mining the floodplain - a landholder's perspective: Charlie Wilson (FBA Board and a landholder) 28.8KB

Mining and Agriculture: David Gullo (Kestrel Mine- Rio Tinto Coal Australia) 511KB

Subsidence: Col McPherson (a traditional owner)

Groundwater: Brendon Swaffer/David Bridgeman (Clermont & District Landcare Association) 165KB

The Groundwater Experience - Clermont Coal Mine Experience: Col Hughes (Rio Tinto)

Cumulative Impacts: Peter Dunne (FBA Board and a landholder)

Cumulative Impacts: Melanie Harris (Department of Local Government & Planning)

Cumulative Impacts of Mining on Biodiversity: Don Cook (Environmental Protection Agency) 274KB

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