{"id":89,"date":"2025-03-05T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewboards.org\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:30:20","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(15.747px, 0.984rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.682), 24px);\"><strong>Short course<\/strong>: <br>Everything you Wanted to Know About Geotechnical, Tailings, and Reclamation Review Boards<br><strong>Date<\/strong>: November 2, 2025<br><strong>Event<\/strong>: Tailings and Mine Waste 2025<br><strong>Location<\/strong>: Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TMW-Logo-White-BG-1024x205.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-556\" style=\"width:410px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TMW-Logo-White-BG-1024x205.png 1024w, https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TMW-Logo-White-BG-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TMW-Logo-White-BG.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On November 2, 2025, geotechnical engineer Gord McKenna will present the inaugural short course on mine review boards on the opening day of the Tailings and Mine Waste 2025 conference in Banff, Alberta. The short course \u201cEverything you Wanted to Know About Geotechnical, Tailings, and Reclamation Review Boards\u201d takes place from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. noon at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. McKenna\u2019s firm, McKenna Geotechnical Inc., is the sponsor of a new online resource for mine review boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The short course will cover a broad range of topics related to mine review boards, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\">reviewboards.org<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Program \u2014 Tailings and Mine Waste Conference Series<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tailings and Mine Waste Conference Series \u2014 Geotechnical, environmental and regulatory topics related to tailings and mine waste management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Check back for postings on additional events, including short courses, webinars, and other informational activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u201cBalancing reward and risk is not achievable by relying on one single engineering calculation. The trick is to bring all of these priorities into concert with one another. The board helps the engineering staff apply judgment and professional wisdom to the mathematics and the science, which ensures management \u2026 is staying in sync with good practice, to avoid drifting into insular practice, to avoid normalization of deviance.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u2014 Greg Fuhr<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short course: Everything you Wanted to Know About Geotechnical, Tailings, and Reclamation Review BoardsDate: November 2, 2025Event: Tailings and Mine Waste 2025Location: Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta On November 2, 2025, geotechnical engineer Gord McKenna will present the inaugural short course on mine review boards on the opening day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inspiro_page_layout":"narrow","inspiro_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reviewboards.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}