Timings reflect Canadian Eastern Time
26 April 2023
Registration, refreshments & networking
STRATEGIC LANDSCAPE OF WATER
Bridging the gap between cultural connections to water and environmental regulations
Exploring how mining companies need to include all stakeholders of a water basin into water and environmental management plans. How can we better collaborate and regulate to foster positive transformation? Outlining BHP’s visions and strategic goals around building a company ethos centered around water.
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Jed Youngs
Practice Lead Water Stewardship - BHP
The role of mining in achieving a nature-positive future
Demystifying how to strengthen stewardship and coordinate at a landscape level to enhance stakeholder inclusion. Analyzing site and catchment-based approaches to be more aligned with the stewardship maturity framework and how it works with the water accounting framework.
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Emma Gagen
Manager Closure and Water - ICMM
Investors’ expectations for mining companies
Delving into water management data from mining companies globally and analyzing how this impacts investor risk and return. Portraying the importance for mining companies to understand their data and reporting.
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Pratima Divgi
Head of Capital Markets - CDP North America
Responding to investors ESG demands
Revealing the process and strategy to develop water stewardship targets in alignment with investor ESG demands. Will cover the pathway to AngloAmerican’s freshwater reduction metric, which led to its inclusion in the first of its kind sustainability-linked bond (SLB) to include a water target.
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Patrick Mullen
Head of Water Management - Anglo American
Question & answer session
Networking and refreshments break
PROACTIVE SOLUTIONS TO WATER QUALITY
Case study: Cariboo Mine – designing a mine with a water quality centric mindset
Providing insight into benefits of early environmental engagement to design out contamination issues later in the mine life and prepare for closure. Considering water balance and quality in the design processes of new mines.
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Sylvie St-Jean
Director Environment and Reclamation - Osisko Development
Preventing mine waste leaching through source control
Developing new construction approaches for mine waste facilities in order to minimize and possibly eliminate the need to treat mine impacted water.
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Chris Kennedy
Director - Water - Teck Resources
Evaluation of flow characteristics and improved hydraulic design in saline mine water discharge lagoons
Investigating contaminant removal through and improving water quality in closed mines when operating in aggressive saline environments.
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Vasiliki Ioannidou
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering - Leeds Beckett University
Question and answer session
Sit down lunch and networking
BREAKOUT SESSIONS – Pick a topic of your choice
Stream A: Climate Adaptive & Environmental Protection
Stream B: Monitoring & Data To Mitigating Risk
Emergency crisis planning: managing flooding events
Using water balance models to forward plan, prepare and respond to extreme weather. Sharing lessons learned to minimize impact to local communities, reduce environmental damage and protect mine operations.
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Emily O’Hara
Manager, Water Strategy & Stewardship - New Gold
Managing water risk through data
Showcasing how AGA have harnessed water data to build robust and successful water management strategies. Outlining the importance of data and how you can enhance its use in water management.
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Cecil Mutambanengwe
Principal - Water & Hydrogeology - Anglo Gold Ashanti
Responding to the climate emergency in the short term
Extreme weather conditions are directly affecting mine sites today and our industry needs to be flexible. How can mines adapt to maintain operational and minimize environmental impact?
Harvesting data to build the Water Risk Filter scenarios and make informed decisions
Combining basin risk data with operational risk information to increase your understanding of water risk in your value chain and operation.
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Ariane Laporte-Bisquit
Project Manager Water Risk Filter - WWF
Question and answer session
An adaptive management approach for the first pit lake in the Alberta oil sands region
Describing an inter-disciplinary approach to steward the first pit lake in the oil sands region to achieving closure objectives.
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Carla Wytrykush
Senior Associate Ecologist - Syncrude Research & Development
Roundtable discussion: Responding to environmental spills and pollution
- What technology and monitoring are you using to track spills and leakages?
- When spills do occur, how can the industry respond to diminish environmental damage?
- How should spills be communicated to local communities?
Question & answer session
Feedback session
Refreshments and networking break
WATER IN THE AGE OF CRITICAL RESOURCES
Developing and implementing a water stewardship approach in the early stages of mine design
Sharing Galore Creek’s experience with embedding a water stewardship approach and best practices into early mine planning and development to establish a comprehensive and holistic water management strategy, and collaborating closely with indigenous partners and local communities to ensure alignment with values and water stewardship principles.
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Yapo Alle-Ando
Manager, Environment - Galore Creek Mining
Managing the mine water cycle for the environment and community
Benchmarking ecological transformation through developing and deploying solutions capable of radically turning the tide and responding to our society’s concerns. Sharing global case studies on supporting the goal of ecological transformation by managing the mine water cycle to benefit the environment and local community.
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Kang Hu
Global Membrane COE Leader - Veolia Water Technologies North America -
James Murray
Mining Market Director - Veolia HQ
Question and answer session
Fireside chat MAC & COSIA – a united approach
Discussing how to drive efficiency in protecting the environment, prioritizing communities with regards to water.
- What is the role of reporting and governance?
- How can associations encourage and facilitate collaboration around innovation and community engagement?
- How can the industry prepare and address the skills gap?
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John Brogly
Director of Water - COSIA -
Charles Dumaresq
Vice President, Science and Environmental Management - Mining Association of Canada
Closing remarks from the chair
Close of day 1 & opening of networking drinks reception
The Networking Dinner is included in the Premium Package or as an Add-On to the Conference Only Package
