Wildfire Risk Reduction - Challenges and Solutions

CIM Calgary Luncheon Details

Doors open at 11:45 with lunch starting at noon. Presentation will begin around 12:25.

We will be meeting in Room 234 in the downtown campus of the U of C.

Abstract: Catastrophic wildfire has taken its toll on communities, utilities, and Canada's ecosystems like no other time in history. Only recently have mines given consideration to the mitigation of wildfire risk to their facilities. Whether this be through safeguarding evacuation routes, protection of critical infrastructure such as transmission lines or pumping systems to maintain tailing pond integrity, or just maintaining business continuity to avoid costly shutdowns and loss of revenue.

Overlaying fire behaviour modeling with the location of values and modeling potential wildfire spread towards those values, and then developing mitigation recommendations is the foundation for a Wildfire Mitigation Report. Such a report can be the difference between a wildfire impacting a mine or increasing the survivability of the mine infrastructure and maintaining business continuity during a wildfire.

This talk will show examples of fire spread modeling in the context of isolated values on the landscape, the mitigating effects of successful value protection (fuel management and structural protection), through real world examples tested during the recent and most destructive fire seasons in BC.

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