PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND PRACTICES - COLUMN 153
One of the important points made during the Conference was that exploration geoscientists, whether in mining, petro- leum, dam siting, highway route investigations or improve- ments, or whatever the proposed the proposed project is, are generally the first “boots on the ground.” Therefore, their actions affect how the social licensing process, and therefore the project’s success, proceeds. Do they attempt to learn about the local area and population and what their wants, needs, and desires are? Do their activities leave a positive or negative impression of the proposed project? Even where a prospect doesn’t pan out, experience indicates that the prospect will be revisited by others from firms with differing project hurdle rules and/or mineral prices change. The impressions made by the first and subsequent teams are important. This point was made by several of the speakers at the conference and has been made elsewhere (e.g. Andrew T. Swarthout, 2014, Another Important Role for an Economic Geologist: SEG Newsletter, no. 98, July 2014, p. 8).
Debra Struhsacker, CPG-8259, captured this point in Figure 3 in which the professional (mining industry or oth- erwise) must constantly juggle balls representing community relations, science & technology, media relations, government relations, and regulatory requirements. All the balls are important and dropping any one may cause delays, higher costs, and possible project failure.
Figure 3. Debra Struhsacker, CPG-8259, from “Hard Rock Mining Communications Strategies Case Histories,” AIPG Social Licensing Conference, Denver, 11/10/14; drawn by Peg O’Malley.
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