Okane Consultants
Ian Taylor is a Senior Environmental Engineer with extensive experience in the field, currently employed at Okane Consultants since April 2013. Prior to this role, Ian served as a Senior Environmental Engineer at GHD from 2010 to April 2013 and worked as a Water and Tailings Supervisor at ERA from 2007 to 2010. Ian began career as a Project Engineer at Cardno Forbes Rigby in 2006, maintaining a strong focus on environmental engineering throughout. Ian holds a degree in environmental engineering from the University of Wollongong, earned between 1999 and 2003.
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Okane Consultants
Okane helps mining companies return the land responsibly and safely at the end of a mine’s lifecycle. We believe in challenging the status quo and advocate for meaningful partnerships and positive outcomes for community stakeholders and Indigenous rightsholders. Our solutions help our clients achieve positive financial, environmental, and social outcomes from feasibility to relinquishment. Okane operates in Canada, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand, leveraging our extensive expertise to collaborate with clients and mine sites worldwide. As leading experts in integrated mine closure planning, Okane has presented at numerous conferences and published multiple technical papers and workshops, as well as internationally recognized guidance documents for the mining industry on cover system and landform design, monitoring, and modelling. Okane’s mine closure solutions include: • Closure Vision and Stakeholder Engagement • Integrated Life of Mine Planning: Tailings and Mine Rock • Closure Plans, Detailed Design and Construction Support • Adaptive Management and Strategic Risk Assessment • Environmental Geochemistry • Water Stewardship • Rehabilitation and Reclamation • Environmental Monitoring and Advanced Data Management