Spring 2021 Quarterly newsletter released
VANCOUVER, BC (May 18, 2021) — The Spring 2021 issue of the Landform Design Quarterly, released today, features an example of landform design in action, an essay on geochemical risks at the landform scale, and an excerpt from the new LDI position paper, Mining with the end in mind.
To see principles of landform design in practice, LDI board member Mike O’Kane ventured into the field to record the fifth episode of the LDI podcast, Getting Closure. He toured a mine site near Sparwood with John Pumphrey, president of North Coal, and Robert “Stubby” Williams, the company’s first nations coordinator and a member of the Ktunaxa Nation.
Williams explained that before starting a project, North Coal always looks first to the end. “We want to know what this is going to look like when it’s finished,” he commented, alluding to a practice that is the first of the LDI’s 12 landform design principles. The podcast will be released later in May.
Steven Pearce, a member of the LDI technical advisory panel, contributed this issue’s essay, writing that a “robust” geochemical risk assessment has never been a more important part of landform design planning, given the importance of water quality as a key metric for environmental risk assessments.
The new LDI position paper, published March 30, 2021 , makes the case for planning for post-mining land uses even before mining starts, which is the first of the 12 principles advocated by the Institute.
The LDI has also launched its corporate membership drive, hoping to sign up 20 members by the end of May and 20 more by the end of the year. Learn more about your firm becoming a corporate member by writing to info@landformdesign.com and requesting an information package.