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The purpose of this workshop was to exchange ideas and to learn about monitoring tools available.
What is performance monitoring? Basically this means measuring in some way what impact the development
has on the environment. This monitoring is done for many reasons and to achieve several objectives
including:
- to ensure compliance with all applicable regulations,
- to demonstrate due diligence,
- to validate predictions made about design performance, environmental impact assessments, and modelling results,
- to identify any new environmental concerns that were not predicted,to ensure that objectives are being met (eg. decommissioning),
- to feed back information to the operation so that they can react to problems should they arise,
- to measure the functioning status of the ecosystem, such as deterioration or recovery,
- to determine when closure has been reached.
The document includes a PowerPoint titled Environmental Effects Monitoring and the Mining Industry by Stella Swanson