Community Consultation, Training and Media
Community Consultation
nghenvironmental have undertaken a number of projects requiring extensive community and stakeholder consultation. This has included development and implementation of a number of community consultation plans with the objective of engaging community input for contentious development proposals such as windfarms. We have undertaken the environmental assessment, including community consultation for 6 wind farms to date, including one, the 1,000 MW Silverton windfarm, which would be the biggest in the southern hemisphere. Of the four wind farm proposals that we have so far submitted for development consent, all have been approved by the NSW determining authorities. For more information about our work in the renewable energy sector, click here.
In addition to windfarms, nghenvironmental have, and continue to prepare, a number of consultation plans for mobile phone base stations on behalf of Telstra. Our Consultation plans generally involved advertising, media releases and 'open house' format sessions. Emotional responses and polarised view points often characterise contentious developpments, underscoring the importance of effective consultation. nghenvironmental are extremely capable in managing successful stakeholder consultation programs.
Trainingnghenvironmental staff come from a range of backgrounds which enables us to tailor training packages towards a variety of industries and in a number of specialised environmental fields. We can offer you a number of off-the-shelf training packages or, alternatively, we can design a training package to suit your specific needs.
Examples of training packages nghenvironmental can deliver include:
- The Importance of Roadside Vegetation
- Guide to Rehabilitation
- Managing Construction Impacts on civil construction projects
- Managing Erosion and Sedimentation
- Managing Impacts on Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
- EIA – What is it and how does it work?
- Environmental Risk Management
- What is an Environmental Management System?
- The Benefits of an Environmental Management System
- Certification of Environmental Management Systems
Media
nghenvironmental have the capacity to research, draft and design interpretative, educational and other materials for public use. Our staff have a range of qualifications in professional writing and media, as well as experience in desktop publishing, photography, design and website production. Examples of work we have prepared for public use includes: - Between a Rock and a Hard Place, an options paper for the development of Australia's highest toilet at Rawsons Pass, Kosciuszko National Park.
- Rehabilitation Manual for the Resort Areas, prepared for use by resort managers and others undertaking rehabilitation work in the ski resort areas of Kocsiuszko National Park. We also edited the Australian Alps Liaison Committee's The Australian Alps Rehabilitation Manual, available here.
- Photomontages for use in community consultation for windfarms, powerlines and telecommunications installations.
- Preparation of a Draft Development Control Plan for Bushfire Protection of the Perisher Range Resorts.
- Our website and other marketing materials (obtainable from us or available as downloads from this site).
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