Expansion of Regulatory Approvals and Compliance Team

• Tellus expands regulatory approvals and compliance team
• Joanna Stewart Priestley appointed as Senior HSEC Manager
• Natasha Alford appointed as HSEC Manager & Policy

Tellus Holdings Ltd (“Tellus”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Anton Rohner as the Tellus Group Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary.

Joanna Stewart Priestley brings 30 years’ experience in the environmental sector.

She has a strong background in environmental management, assessment, planning, auditing; sustainability; occupational hygiene; team and project management; and population and public health issues. She has worked across a range of industries including infrastructure, civil construction, mining, agricultural, industrial, energy, and health and service sectors across Australia and in Hong Kong and other parts of Sout-East Asia. She has worked as Principal Environmental Consultant with Mott MacDonald, Hyder and Parsons Brinkerhoff; State Environmental Manager with PPK and National Environmental Manager with Great Southern Group of Companies.

Natasha Alford brings 10 years’ experience in the resources and infrastructure sector.

Combining her qualifications from the University of Sydney as a lawyer and environmental scientist, Natasha has worked for global companies Rio Tinto and WorleyParsons to lead diverse project groups and develop strategic plans to navigate the legislative and policy framework with the objective of securing regulatory approvals while reducing risk. Natasha is studying her Masters in Environmental Law at the University of New South Wales.

“We are pleased to have Joanna and Natasha join the team,” said Tellus Managing Director Duncan van der Merwe. “Their combined experience and knowledge of regulatory, environmental process, compliance and policy will be a great asset to the project development team.”

”They will be instrumental in delivering our Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), compliance and policy for both Northern Territory and Western Australian projects,”

Tellus continues its targeted recruitment program which will see further technical and commercial appointments in the coming months.

Tellus Holdings Ltd is an infrastructure project development company with a proposed dual revenue business model. This involves mining the commodities salt and kaolin and backfilling the voids left from mining with equipment, archives or long term temporary storage of waste. Tellus’ business model mirrors world’s best practice solutions operating in the UK, EU, USA and Canada. Tellus is developing the Chandler salt mine project in the Northern Territory (NT) and the Sandy Ridge kaolin mine project in Western Australia. Tellus’ flagship ‘Chandler Project’ has recently been awarded “Major Project Status” by the NT Government.

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