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Presentation and Mitigation Mitigation Some thoughts Karen Raymond, Principal Partner ERM IAIA 11 th February 2010 Delivering sustainable solutions in a more competitive world Presentation where have we gone wrong? or how did we get from


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Presentation and Mitigation

Delivering sustainable solutions in a more competitive world

Mitigation Some thoughts

Karen Raymond, Principal Partner ERM IAIA 11th February 2010

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Presentation – where have we gone wrong?

  • r how did we get from

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to

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Remind ourselves…..

Statutory purposes:

  • providing information to regulators to enable more

informed consent decisions

  • providing information to external stakeholders to

enable effective representation of their interests

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enable effective representation of their interests Wider purpose:

  • helping shape better projects through informing

and influencing planning, design, consenting and implementation

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The Whys

  • Risk aversion
  • Poor planning and coordination

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  • Risk aversion
  • Laziness
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Planning and Coordination

  • 1. More Planning less Scoping
  • just enough
  • tailored effort
  • directed contributions

We’d get…

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We’d get…

  • short, early scoping documents – work plans not mini EIS
  • scans of the baseline not State of the Environment Reports
  • less work for us, our clients, the regulators and the consultation

bodies

  • more time for the real work
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Planning and Coordination

  • 2. More integrated working less silos:
  • ensure specialists understand the bigger picture
  • design their efforts to suit the issues – baseline

surveys, predictive methods

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surveys, predictive methods

  • share information and outputs along the way
  • avoid duplication of effort – and gaps
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Planning and Coordination

  • 3. Planning the product to reduce the pages:
  • providing common elements and data up front
  • scrapping unnecessary chapters and grouping

issues

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issues

  • integrating the baseline
  • nly including essential information – referencing

the rest

  • avoiding a formula
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Planning and Coordination

  • 4. Avoiding the formula:
  • provide a skeleton and a style
  • define what’s needed but don’t prescribe
  • budget the time to make it flow

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  • strip out the unnecessary
  • internal and external referencing
  • simplify the language
  • effective use of graphics
  • consistency
  • logical story
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The “just in case” approach …

what’s driving it:

  • specialists
  • statutory consultees

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  • statutory consultees
  • legal advisers
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……..leads to:

  • unnecessary field work
  • unnecessary baseline reporting
  • over complex methods …

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  • over complex methods …
  • … and “methodologies”
  • indigestible reports
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Laziness !

  • Hit the button and crank the handle
  • What do you get?
  • a series of technical treatises
  • buried in unnecessary detail

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  • buried in unnecessary detail
  • repetition and inconsistency
  • off the shelf and cut and paste
  • an incoherent and disjointed story
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What do we need?

  • Less scoping and more planning
  • Less baseline and more impact
  • Less segregation and more integration

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  • Less segregation and more integration
  • Less writing and more crafting
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Mitigation

  • by design: from alternatives to details
  • working methods
  • management
  • wills and woulds vs coulds and shoulds

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  • wills and woulds vs coulds and shoulds
  • embedded and additional/without mitigation and

residual impacts !!!!!!!!!

if EIA is about helping shape better projects through informing and influencing planning, design, consenting and implementation then…

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Delivering sustainable solutions in a more competitive world

Thank you