RICS Minerals and Waste Management
annual conference 2007:
sustaining progress in a changing environment

This year's RICS Minerals and Waste Management Faculty annual conference took place at Makeney Hall hotel in Derbyshire, a splendid Victorian country mansion set in six acres of landscaped gardens. The programme had an excellent line up of speakers that explored the latest developments in the industry and the changes affecting the sector in the UK as well as abroad.

The programme for the conference included:
Chairman's Welcome and Introduction
Rachel Halley, Global Acquisitions & Disposals Standards Manager, Shell International

Clean coal technology and the energy review
Mike Farley, Director of Technology Policy Liaison, Doosan Babcock

The use of residual waste as an energy resource: opportunities and issues
Professor Christopher Coggins, Independent Consultant, WamTech

Minerals Policy Statement 1: Planning and Minerals
Peter Bide, Communities and Local Government

Implementation of the national Brownfield Strategy
Dr Paul Syms, National Advisor, English Partnerships

Security of supply, is the UK vulnerable? An overview of demand and supply for the next 25 years
David Highley MBE, British Geological Survey

European emerging policies affecting the minerals industry
Grégoire Poisson, Director of Public Affairs, UEPG

Minerals development in Eastern Europe
Robert Adamczyk, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development 

Please follow the links to the right hand side of the page for their presentations.