Services COOE has provided to its clients include, but are not limited to:
Rio Tinto – Dampier Salt Operations
- Staff secondments (including a regional superintendent for 9 months).
- Environmental reporting and risk register.
- Environmental awareness program.
- Environmental Review for Dampier and Port Hedland Operations.
- Mangrove and intertidal habitat monitoring.
- Environmental risk assessment for the coastal and marine environment.
Newcrest - Telfer Gold Mine
- Mine rehabilitation, research and development of a mesa landform.
- Waste rock characterisation.
- Acid rock drainage program validation.
- Marine monitoring for metal mobilisation - Port Hedland.
- Odour study - Port Heland and Telfer.
- Stygofauna monitoring (5 year program).
- Environmental staff placement (11 assignments over 6 years).
- Environmental Reporting (including NPI, AER).
- Environmental Auditing.
Nyrstar – Port Pirie Smelter
- 5 Year Marine Monitoring Program.
- Smelter waste management plan.
- Site rehabilitation planning.
- Maintenance shut down support.
- Environmental risk assessment.
- Temporary environmental staff placement.
- Revegetation planning and implementation.
BHP Billiton – Olympic Dam Expansion
- Biological and Document Production Managers for the EIS team.
- Marine baseline survey for Point Lowly desalination plant.
- Stygofauna monitoring program.
- Larval fish and invertebrates survey - four seasons.
Wave Rider Energy Project - Elliston
- Marine habitat survey.
- Diverless habitat mapping.
- Bird monitoring.
Terramin – Angas Zinc Mine
- Assist client prepare a MARP to obtain a licence to operate.
- Develop environmental management systems and train staff.
- Design and implement the monitoring program and prepare Quarterly and Annual Reports.
- Temporary Environmental Staff Placement.
- Revegetation and weed/pest control (ongoing).
World Bank - Mining
- Environmental Risk Assessment of the Copperbelt mines and smelters - Zambia.
- Develop a project evaluation system using Sustainability Indicators.
- Prioritization of mine rehabilitation projects in the Copperbelt, Zambia.
- Community consultation in Zambia.
- Staff training.
Santos - Oil and Gas
- Infauna survey and impact assessment - Port Bonython Facility.
- Exploration site soil investigation and rehabilitation advise - Mudlalee
Placer Dome (Granny Smith, Misima, Marcopper and Porgera)
- Misima mine environmental management (4years), Papua New Guinea.
- Marcopper Tailings Spill Remediation - environmental management (4 years), Philippines.
- Deep Sea Tailings Placement, PNG and Philippines.
- Mine Rehabilitation - Tropical rainforest.
- Marine monitoring - coral reef and associated habitats.
- Bioaccumulation and metal mobilisation in the environment and local population.
- Setting up a tree nursery, an environmental laboratory and staff training.
- Environmental Reporting and Auditing.
- Environmental Monitoring program design, implementation and verification.
- Optimisation of Environmental Monitoring Program - Porgera.
- Hypersaline lake environmental management - Granny Smith.
Coastal Protection Board
- Baseline survey of marine habitats - Section Bank. Port Adelaide.
- Marine monitoring program - Section Bank. Port Adelaide.
- Conduct environmental risk assessments for sand dredging project near Port Adelaide.
Walker Corporation – Buckland Park
- Coastal and marine impact assessment for the EIS.
Australian Zircon – Mindarie mine
- Temporary environmental staff placement - ongoing.
- Environmental Audits, NPI and Annual Environmental Reports.
Murray Darling Basin Commission
- Marine impact assessment for the discharge of hypersaline water.
Lihir Mining Area Landowners Association
- Review of the Million Ounce Plant Upgrade Environmental Impact Statement.
