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IOM3 150th Anniversary function and joint meeting with Women in Mining
May 13, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Fiona Cessford, Director and Corporate Consultant (Environment) at SRK Consulting (UK) will give a talk entitled
“Impact assessment and feasibility studies – amalgamate or separate”.
We like to think the bad old days of impact assessment studies being done solely to obtain the necessary permits are in the past, but are they? Unfortunately there are still companies out there who separate and isolate these processes. Proportional impact assessment and amalgamation with project development studies is not just about permitting and keeping local communities informed, it also aims to maximise efficiencies in initial spend, understand and plan for project risks and add significant value when it comes to raising finance or selling the project. The ways in which these aims can be met and the risks of getting it wrong will be discussed with reference to case studies.
Fiona Cessford MSc, PrSciNat is a Corporate Consultant with over 25 years’ experience in environmental and social (E&S) management. Fiona’s global experience includes ESIAs, permitting, project engineering studies and due diligence reviews. As part of multidisciplinary teams, she provides E&S expertise with reference to the Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards, as well as host country requirements.
Fiona has worked both as a regulator at the UK’s Environment Agency (8 years) and as a consultant in SRK’s South African and UK practices (20 years). Fiona’s E&S experience spans preparation and management of ESIAs, input to project engineering studies (PEAs, PFSs, FSs etc), management planning, closure planning, risk management, audit and due diligence, technical advice on water and waste issues and environmental reporting. She regularly works with multidisciplinary due diligence teams, commenting on E&S and health & safety risks associated with new and existing mining and infrastructure projects as input to competent persons reports, mergers & acquisitions and financial transactions. She has been the independent engineer (environment) for a number of loan agreements in sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, focusing on compliance with the Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards, as well as host country requirements. Having worked on multiple gold, base metal, bauxite and heavy mineral sand projects (amongst others), Fiona’s global mining knowledge assists her in communicating E&S risks in a language understood by mine managers, lenders and corporate decision makers.