As you develop your programs for stakeholder engagement, delivery of local content and community investment, you must look through a different lens. Major infrastructure projects can have impacts on all the community but they often have disproportionate impacts on certain parts of society. Vulnerable groups… Read More »A different view
Sometimes developers don’t consider the mitigation of impacts early enough or perhaps jump to compensation as a way of dealing with impacts. When you begin to consider what mitigations you can put in place to deal with the impact, consider applying the mitigation hierarchy. Avoid… Read More »The mitigation hierarchy
You have got your permits, your foreshore licences and your planning permission but do you have your Social Licence to Operate? Many developers will stumble on that question and so a good place to start is to explain what we mean by social licence to… Read More »Introducing social license to operate
Without Social Licence to Operate your project may experience delays, increased costs and damage to reputation, so, how do you gain it? A book could be written to answer that question but instead, look at the following checklist to make sure you are laying a… Read More »Gaining social licence to operate