Environmental Focus Day: Tuesday 30 January 2012

08:30 – 09:00 Registration, coffee and networking

09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks from the Focus Day chairperson

Nelson Mbatha
National Environmental Manager
Transnet National Ports Authority

09:10 – 10:10 South African environmental law relating to dredging

Melissa Groenink
Member of the Environmental & Clean Energy Law Department
Shepstone & Wylie

10:10 – 10:55 Minimizing the environmental impacts of dredging – key considerations

Nelson Mbatha
National Environmental Manage
Transnet National Ports Authority

10:55 – 11:30 Morning refreshments and networking

11:30 – 12:15 Synchronising information flows between engineering design, environmental impact assessment and regulatory authority approval processes to minimise delays in capital dredging projects.

Roy van Ballegooyen
Senior Researcher
CSIR

12:15 – 13:00 Deciding whether dredged sediment is suitable for openwater disposal

Brent Newman
Senior Researcher
CSIR

13:00 – 14:00 Networking Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 Sediment transport and modelling informing dredging operations and coastal zone management

Dr. Gerhardus Diedericks
Senior Researcher
CSIR

14:45 – 15:30 Implications of climate change for marine dredging activities in Southern Africa

Geoff Toms
Senior Lecturer
University of Stellenbosch

15:30– 15:45 Closing remarks from the chair at the end of Day

15:45 Afternoon refreshments

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