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Carbon Farming Initiative offers landholders revenue opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... Securities and Investments Commission Act, and as a result, will be subject to the financial service regulation regime. "In the mining sector, there are a number of potential opportunities. Buffer zones, which are currently used for livestock grazing ...

Disclosing sustainability risks, engaging stakeholders vital to corporate interests

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... strategy and cited water consumption as one area in which more could and should be done. Water consumption is an issue for mining, drilling and quarrying operators, Adams noted, and drought conditions in Australia with concomitant community awareness ...

Interview: Anthea McIntyre, Australian Institute of Company Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... skills matrix. Companies have to sit down and critically think about the skill sets they need on the board. If you've got a mining company, the board will generally need someone with mining experience, perhaps an engineer, perhaps a geologist. If you've ...

Carbon price will capture mines' fugitive emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... trapped methane that are released during the extraction process, according to a briefing from the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). If passed, the legislation will see a carbon pricing scheme from 1 July 2012, starting with a fixed carbon ...

Social risk: the impact on the Australian cattle industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... license to operate," said Richard Boele, managing director of Banarra, a management consultancy. "It's been around the mining sector for about 10 years and now is being understood by the wider community. There are certain impacts on certain activities ...

Carbon tax regime to affect liability for joint ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... attorneys at Allens Arthur Robinson. Grant Anderson The carbon tax will cover the stationary energy, industrial processing, mining and solid landfill/waste water treatment sectors, and applies to facilities (or activities) in those sectors that individually ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... companies that had the highest GRI compliance scores, including Sasol Energy and Natural Resource, Gold Fields Metals and Mining, Lonmin Metals and Mining, Anglo American plc Metals and Mining and Xstrata Alloys Metals & Mining. Of the 20 companies with ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has released a paper calling for clear policies for a "predictable, measured transition to a long term price on greenhouse gas emissions" while recognising the mining industry's role in developing ...

GRI releases airport operator sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting. GRI offers several versions of the guidelines for different sectors, including financial services, mining and metals, and electric utilities. The airport operators sector supplement is the sixth sector to be covered. See Also ...

NSW coal miners engage in landmark stakeholder survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... South Wales have engaged with stakeholders by commissioning a stakeholder survey to start a dialogue on the impacts of coal mining. The survey, commissioned by the New South Wales Minerals Council (NSWMC) shows stakeholders are broadly concerned with ...