Sustainability Priorities
Proposals in this category will be considered by the underground, open cut or coal preparation committees, as appropriate.
MANAGEMENT OF MINE SITE ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY ISSUES
In pursuit of sustainable development the industry is calling for research to enable it to continually improve its ability to manage environment and community issues. Research is needed to fill gaps in knowledge and to identify and respond to future issues such that stakeholders have confidence in the industry’s ability to manage and reduce its impacts.
The industry would be pleased to receive submissions addressing the following topics:
License to Operate
- Improved methods for the management and mitigation of the impacts of subsidence.
- Management of the impact of mining on aquifers and other water resources.
- Improved methods for managing biodiversity adjacent to, and in association with, mining.
- Improved methods for the prediction and management of dust and noise impacts generated by mining operations and associated infrastructure.
- The amelioration of overpressure, vibration and fumes generated from blasting or other operations on coal mines.
- Economic use or reprocessing of coal processing waste.
- Further understanding of community aspects of the sustainable development of the coal mining industry.
- Methods for the efficient reduction of fugitive greenhouse gas emissions.
- Improve the energy efficiency and productivity of all mining plant, equipment and systems.
Effective Closure and Lease Relinquishment
- Sustainable methods for coal washery management with a focus on reduced environmental footprints.
- Soil profile development and carbon capture.
Water
- Techniques to achieve more efficient use of water leading to reductions in usage.
- Improved understanding of the impacts of mining on receiving environments in streams.
- Principles of design for sustainable ephemeral stream diversion through previously mined areas.
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