REGULATORS' WORKSHOP I

John Allan

• New Directions in Environmental Law and Regulation of Mining - Speakers and Papers

Fritz Balkau

• Issues for the Workshop

• Opening Statement by UNEP (30 KB)

• APELL and Mining Regulation

• Rough Summary of issues to date - Work in Progress Potential Areas for Focus on Day 2 (9 KB)

Bill Biggs

• An Australian Regulators Overview

Prof. Josef Brauns

• Accident Prevention through Regulations? - Some Lessons from Recent Failures

• Accident Prevention through Regulations? - Lessons Learned from Recent Failures (442 KB)

Peter Briggs

• Trends in Environmental Regulation

John Gammon

• Best Practice Environmental Management in Mining - Tailings & Chemicals Management Canadian Practices

Dave Gaskin

• National Directions for Regulation - USA

Ian Gould

• Partnerships in Management: The role of industry working with government in environmental management (29 KB)

Richard Holmgren

• Experiences from the Tailing Dam Failure at the Boliden Mine Aitic and the Legal Consequences (21 KB)

Irwin Itzkovitch

• Global Perspectives of Tailings Management

Hugh Jones

• Regulator's Talk (21 KB)

Martin Knee

• Driving the Safety And Accountability Culture: What can regulators do?

Karen Livan

• Improving Environmental Management Practices in Mining in Guyana (38 KB)

Edwin Ngonyani

• "Environmental and protection considerations in the mining industry"

• Environmental Management and Protection Considerations in the Mining Industry Examples of Contemporary Approaches to Regulations (18 KB)

Michael Rae

• Government of Australia and UNEP workshop on Environmental Regulation for Accident Prevention in Mining - Tailing and Chemical Management

Horacio Ramos

• Tailings Dam Accidents and the Use of Chemicals in Mining - Issues, Policy Response and Lessons Learned from the Philippines (Slide Show, 99 KB)

• Tailings Dam Accidents and the Use of Chemicals in Mining - Issues, Policy Response and Lessons Learned from the Philippines (168 KB)

Jerome Simpson

• Environmental Issues Related to Past and Future Mining in CEE

• Environment and Legal Issues Related to Past and Future Mining in Central and Eastern Europe (350 KB) 

Thomson Sinkala

• Part 1: Training/Skills of Regulators

• Part 2: Mining and Environment - Module Five Environmental Impact Assessment and Auditing in Mining Industry in Southern Africa

Steve Tatzenko

• Future Directions in Environmental Legislation and Regulation of Mining in Australia

Kathryn Tayles

• Voluntary Industry Code for Cyanide Management in Gold Mining

• Voluntary Industry Code for Cyanide Management (20 KB)

Greg Unwin

• Precautionary Regulations - The Proposed Cowal Gold Project (33 KB)

• Precautionary Regulations Proposed Cowal Gold Project

UNEP

• Workshop Agenda (48 KB)

• Background Papers (57 KB)

Kerry Brooks

• Some Regulatory Issues Regarding the Environmental Management of Cyanide (29 KB)

Adam Bisits (Hungary)

• Notes on the Hungarian Perspective: A Bisits with the assistance of Prof Dr Z Kesserü and Dr Z Kocsis Kupper (27 KB)

N. Eriksson and P. Adamek

• The tailings pond failure at the Aznalcóllar mine, Spain (114 KB)

Simone Phichit

• Environmental Impact Assessment for Tin Mines and Guideline on Environmental Protection in the Mining Sector in Lao PDR. (48 KB)

Mehrdad Nazari

• Financial Provisioning for Mine Closure: Developing a Policy and Regulatory Framework in the Transition Economies (24 KB)