Critical elements in implementing fundamental change in public environmental policy: Western Australia’s mine closure and rehabilitation securities reform

Gorey, P.; McHenry, Mark P.; Morrison‐Saunders, Angus; Mtegha, H.; Doepel, D.

doi:10.1080/14486563.2016.1179227

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“…However, mine closure and ecological restoration is increasingly expensive (Costanza et al ). For example, it is estimated that in one mining domain in Australia, the total rehabilitation, restoration, and closure costs for all mines will be $US 3–4.5 billion ($A 4–6 billion) (Gorey et al ).…”

Section: Mine Site Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

DNA metabarcoding—a new approach to fauna monitoring in mine site restoration

Fernandes

Heyde

Bunce

et al. 2018

Restoration Ecology

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Ecological restoration of landscapes is an integral part of the mining process. However, restoration is often constrained by a lack of consistent monitoring approaches. For example, the need for specialist techniques and trapping approaches often limits monitoring of fauna recovery. Application of molecular tools has made important contributions to understanding factors influencing restoration success. Here, we outline advances in next-generation sequencing methods, especially metabarcoding of environmental DNA. These have potential to revolutionize the practical contribution of genetics to the monitoring of fauna in a restoration context. DNA metabarcoding involves the simultaneous characterization of biota using DNA barcodes. It is a powerful method to assess the biodiversity contained within environmental samples (e.g. scats, bulk arthropods, soil, water, and sediment). This review outlines the challenges associated with current approaches to monitoring faunal biodiversity throughout ecological restoration. We also demonstrate how the emergence of DNA metabarcoding could recast monitoring capacity for improved ecological restoration outcomes, while discussing current limitations of a DNA-based approach to biodiversity assessment.

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Section: Mine Site Restorationmentioning

confidence: 99%

DNA metabarcoding—a new approach to fauna monitoring in mine site restoration

Fernandes

Heyde

Bunce

et al. 2018

Restoration Ecology

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“…The time of liquidation is a derivative of the logical sequence of the mining plant facilities liquidation, the length of the tender procedures and the demolition and reclamation technology itself. In SRK S.A. the restructuring of mining plants that are put into liquidation is carried out with the division of 10 component processes [1]. Table 2 shows the names of individual processes that are taking place in the branches of SRK S.A. Each of the components of the liquidation processes is a complex process and depends on many factors.…”

Section: Results Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the Polish hard coal mine industry restructuring activities are being realized adjusting the sector to the functioning in the conditions of the market economy. The most rational way to reduce the costs of this industry is to liquidate mines where coal has been depleted or considered to be permanently unprofitable due to the exploitation in particularly unfavorable mining and geological conditions [1,2,3,4,5,6]. The process of the liquidation of mines is financed by the state budget.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multifaceted Method of Analyzing the Amount of Expenditures on Mine Liquidation Processes in SRK S.A.

Chmiela¹,

Smoliło²,

Gajdzik³

2022

Management Systems in Production Engineering

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The liquidation of the mine is the last and natural stage of mining activity. The activities related to the revitalization and restructuring of hard coal mines are carried out by Spółka Restrukturyzacji Kopalń S.A. (SRK S.A.), as the legal successor of previous mining operations. The implementation of the mine liquidation process has not been the subject of scientific research so far aimed at rationalization and minimization of the costs incurred. Activities leading to the liquidation of the mining plants are the procedural nature, however, the mine liquidation is always a single case which has a result in diversifying the size of outlays. The support for the implementation of the process approach in the issue of mine liquidation in terms of rationalization and minimization of the costs incurred in SRK S.A. was to develop a method of managing the costs of liquidation processes with the software for evaluation of its size. The proposed method signals to the designer that the estimated cost of the process of liquidation of another mining plant deviates from the average values previously worked out by SRK S.A. The range of acceptable values results from the assumed coefficient of data variation.

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“…Miller, 2005;Sassoon, 2009;Hall and Hall, 2015), but use of centralised funds (such as the Mining Rehabilitation Fund in Western Australia -Gorey et al, 2014; that receive contributions from all active mining operations within a given jurisdiction have emerged in recent years as an innovative approach (Hall and Hall, 2015). One advantage of the latter approach is the ability put in place a financial mechanism that can generate funds to pay for the rehabilitation of legacy abandoned mine-sites (Gorey et al, 2016), something we consider to represent a best practice principle for mine closure planning (Morrison-Saunders et al, 2015).…”

Section: International Mine Closure Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Complexities with extractive industries regulation on the African continent: What has ‘best practice’ legislation delivered in South Africa?

Alberts

Wessels

Morrison‐Saunders

et al. 2017

The Extractive Industries and Society

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The legal framework for mine closure and rehabilitation of new and former mine sites in South Africa, including legacy abandoned sites, is comprehensive. This paper discusses legislative provisions for mine site rehabilitation and closure in South Africa with reference to established international expectations. Overall, while the South African legislative framework for mine closure and rehabilitation generally conforms with international expectations for best practice, the system is extremely complex and unwieldy. Many individual laws, regulations, and guidelines and their corresponding ministries applicable to mine closure planning and management in South Africa has created a complicated interconnected raft of provisions and expectations. It is an open question whether the most recent amendments (December 2014), have untangled or rather added to the complexities. This historical complexity along with identified governance capacity constraints (financial, technical and experience based) likely explains why implementation of the legislative framework has fallen short of mine closure expectations and mandates. As South Africa is a jurisdiction on the African continent with much experience in mining, there are many lessons that are applicable to emerging countries in the region who wish to attract the benefits of the extractives industries and minimize their potential negative consequences.

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Critical elements in implementing fundamental change in public environmental policy: Western Australia’s mine closure and rehabilitation securities reform

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

DNA metabarcoding—a new approach to fauna monitoring in mine site restoration

DNA metabarcoding—a new approach to fauna monitoring in mine site restoration

A Multifaceted Method of Analyzing the Amount of Expenditures on Mine Liquidation Processes in SRK S.A.

Complexities with extractive industries regulation on the African continent: What has ‘best practice’ legislation delivered in South Africa?

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