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Rescology Environmental Consulting provides comprehensive environmental, social governance (ESG) services to the resources sector, offering ESG Leadership and Management Services as an integral part of the owner’s team . We understand that explorers, junior, and major companies may lack dedicated in-house ESG expertise or require additional specialist support, and we are here to fill that gap.
With proven expertise in mining across Africa and Australia , Rescology has a strong track record in working collaboratively with clients and associates to deliver projects from concept and exploration through to construction, operations , and ultimately, mine closure and rehabilitation . Our experience spans gemstones, battery and critical minerals, precious and base metals .
At Rescology, we strive to identify your unique needs, offering tailored, science and people-based solutions to address your specific challenges. Our goal is to create efficiencies and effectively bridge the gap between resource extraction, environmental legislation, regulatory requirements, and evolving ESG best practices.
Our international due diligence experience proves invaluable, particularly for mergers, acquisitions, and financial institutions. This expertise and experience are complemented by our deep understanding of ecology, community and a cultural awareness, with first-hand experience conductingbaseline biodiversity assessments, botanical and fauna surveys, developing biodiversity offset strategies, andcollating necessary permits and approvals, we understand what regulators and stakeholders require. We have excellent multijurisdictional knowledge and have developed projects in line with both national legislation and international standards such as the Equator Principles the IFC Performance Standards, national and international sustainability standards, mining principles and in accordance with global sustainability reporting frameworks.
We partner with associates and engage our well established and trusted networks to scale up and deliver on projects.
Rescology personnel have been embedded in client teams to deliver scoping and feasibilities studies, assist with decommissioning and mine closure, stakeholder engagement, environmental performance improvement, risk analysis and environmental approvals. Our focussed ESG leadership and management capability includes:
- ESG related studies management for decommissioning and mine closure on large projects, providing guidance and oversight on multidisciplinary studies to assess and manage risk, enable effective collation and finalisation of reports with a working knowledge of the statutory guidelines or Mine Closure in Western Australia and the International Council of Mining and Metals Mine Closure Toolkit (ICMM) and other intruments.
- Stakeholder engagement includes identification, mapping, planning, strategy for engagement and implementation of programmes for project development, resettlement, improving social license and conflict resolution.
- Risk analysis based on international risk management standards, assessing initial, inherent and residual environmental and social risks.
- Due diligence to evaluate compliance, social and environmental performance and ESG for open pit and underground mines in gold, copper, and nickel operations, poly metallic ore, battery and base metals and mineral sands mines in Western Australia, South America, Africa and Asia.
- Scoping and feasibility ESG studies management and reporting for asset development in line with JORC 2012 and or N43101.
- Environmental approvals with an adaptive management approach to integrate environmental and social factors encompassing Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) in both Australian and African jurisdictions, referrals under environmental protection legislation, clearing permits, mining proposals, mine closure plans, and exploration and environmental management plans. We have a comprehensive understanding of regulatory approval processes.
Cathy Galli
Director / Principal Environmental Consultant
Cathy is an environmental scientist with qualifications in agriculture, environmental management and governance with more than 25 years’ experience in conservation, sustainability, community development, eco-tourism and the resources sector in Western Australia and internationally.
Cathy has lived and worked in multicultural, multi-skilled and sensitive environments in five countries including Australia. She has well established and respected industry and regulatory networks, knowledge of international legislative frameworks and experience in skills share, mentoring, stakeholder relations and building partnerships.
Her breadth and depth of experience includes government and a range of industries, in consulting and operations involving project development from the conceptual through to the operational, mine closure and rehabilitation phase. Core skills include environmental feasibility, strategy and pathways to approvals, environmental scoping of ecological surveys, project management, environmental due diligence, environmental and social impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, compliance performance improvement, mine closure and rehabilitation.
She is a Certified Environmental Practitioner in Australia and New Zealand, a Competent Person (Env) with the Australasian Association for Mining and Metallurgy, a Global Reporting Initiative Certified Sustainability Professional, is a volunteer on the West Australian Natural Resource Management Board. Cathy was awarded a scholarship on the 2018 Pipeline for Directors Program and is a Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors Course.