While employed by Wardell Armstrong International, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat carried out a site visit to review environmental and social sensitivities around the potential re-working of 300 million tonnes of copper tailings (mineral waste from ore processing) forming a...
While employed by Wardell Armstrong International, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat participated in socio-economic baseline data gathering in and around the remote Akbakai gold mining complex, owned by JSC Altynalmas, in southern Kazakhstan. This included household interviews,...
While working for Wardell Armstrong International, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat produced a bespoke community development briefing paper for the corporate and management teams of an AIM-listed gold mining company operating in Liberia, West Africa. The paper related to the...
The Eden Project was constructed in a worked out china clay pit. There was no soil, so 85,000 tonnes of artificial soils were created from recycled mineral wastes and composted green and bark wastes. Working in partnership with the University of Reading’s Horticulture...
While employed by the Eden Project, Pete Whitbread-Abrutat participated in – and partly led – a ten-day workshop in Morocco on the theme of ‘Biodiversity Conservation: What Role for Environmental Education?’. The first week involved a familiarisation road...
