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Robert R. Hedley Award
Excellence in Social and Environmental Responsibility
Recipient: Harvey McLeod
Harvey McLeod of Klohn Crippen Berger was the recipient of
the 2013 Robert R. Hedley Award for excellence in social and
environmental responsibility. Both an engineer and geoscien-
tist, McLeod has been a leader in the evolution and development
of mine waste management practices. In addition to the exper-
tise he has developed in the scientific and engineering aspects
of mine waste, McLeod has been a leader in integrating socio-
environmental responsibility with the engineered aspects of
tailings and waste rock. In the 1980s, McLeod recognized mine
waste as the most enduring consequence of mine development
and, over the years, his guiding approach has been his vision of
how projects will exist after mine closure. His passion has been to
ensure tailings and mine waste practices keep pace with the val-
ues of sustainability and
to create designs that are
sustainable land forms
at the end of mining,
thereby minimizing the
impact on the environ-
ment and the public.
McLeod's early rec-
ognition of the effect
of acid rock drainage
(
A R D) on t he physi-
cal env ironment and
social sustainability of a
mine, combined with his
innate tendency towards
practicality, resulted in
merging the science of
ARD into mine design.
McLeod does not accept
science blindly and his
solutions and designs
are neither overdone nor
overly complicated.
Michael McPhie (far left) and Ed Kimura
(far right) with a few of the innovators
at David Barr Award recipient Boart
Longyear: Jarrett Campbell, Bob Buto,
Terry Kirkey and Darrell Tweidt.
Harvey McLeod is honoured
with the Robert R. Hedley
Award by Michael McPhie
and Ed Kimura.
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