• APPOINTMENTS

Fisher to Lawfield Cooper Mortgage Choice manager Lorraine Fisher has join'ed Lawfield Legal Practice as Mortgage Choice has appointed Phil l :g COMINGS AND GOINGS a senior la'NYer. Ms Fisher has previously worked for Cooper to the position of state manager for Hotchkin Hanley and Aliens Arthur Robinson where she Western Australia. Mr Cooper most recently Comings & GOings for WA's listed companies have been sourced from was a senior associate. worked at Defense Housing Australia as the WA office of the ASK state manager/portfolio manager. Counsel's national role Delaware North Companies Australia has apPointed Brad AUsTRAL·IAN··,NSTll'UT...... Be"'c om" 'e'" a"me" m" ber II Counsel as national general manager of operations, of COMPANY DIRECTORS Ii ...... \~~n;.rompan,(hr('rto~ s· roll1 mi travel and hospitality services . Mr Counsel is currently Huntly to manage exploration the general manager for WA and SA. Based in Perth, Mr Minerals exploration company Hannans I Counsel's expanded role will cover DNe operations in all Reward has appointed Donald Huntly • Ade/phi Energy • Richfield International major airport locations within Australia. as exploration manager. Mr Huntly is an Alexander Forcke, Christopher Andrew Phillips has been Hodge, Graham Riley and Eric apPOinted as an in dependent III experienced geologist ~aving held senior Johnson, Ruprecht Armadale posts Streit berg have resigned from exploration positions with Xstrata Nickel director. Mr Phillips is currently ,I the board, effective immediately. Charles Johnson has been appOinted as chairperson Australasia, Jubilee Mines, Goldfields of a director of Connexion Ventures and HlI, and an executive director and John Ruprecht as deputy chairperson of Armadale South Africa (Agnew Gold Operation) and • Andean Resources of FCP Corporate Services. Redevelopment Authority. Mr Johnson is the principal of WMC Resources (Leinster Nickel operation). Eric Edwards has been appointed ,f: i Planning Context and was formerly the execytive director chief financial officer and Robert • Segue Resources , I of strategiC policy and research at the Department of Manners CFO of Bathurst Resources Menard as vice-president, Simon Fleming has been : ' Planning. Mr Ruprecht is currently the executive director Bathurst Resources has appOinted Tim Manners as chief engineering and construction. Mr apPOinted executive director. Mr of agricultural resources risk management at the financial officer and Steve O'Dea as executive general manager Edwards was most recently chief Fleming previously held senior financial officer for International Department of Agriculture and Food. of planning and technical services. Mr Manners most recently technical and management Minerals Corporation . Mr Menard held the position of chief financial officer at Perilya. Mr O'Dea is positions with China Metals, was most recently vice-president WHK Horwath changes Summit Resources, Pa ladin a mining engineer with more than 20 years' experience. engineering and construction of Energy and Energy Metals. Jurgen WHK Horwath has made a series of the Nunvik Nickel Project. senior appOintments to their Perth Collgar boost Hendrich has resigned as a non­ team. Emma Barns (pictured), a Collgar Wind Farm, which is developing a 206-megawatt wind farm • Axiom Properties executive director. I Gordon Hough has been appointed tax manager with WHK Horwath for near Merredin, has appointed Alistair Craib as chief executive • Sundance Resources seven years, has been promoted to officer. Mr Craib was previously part of the project acquisition team company secretary, effective immediately, following the Fiona Harris has been appointed · associate principal, tax consulting at banking group, UBS. Michael Gilmore has been appOinted chief '1 resignation of Aaron Gardiner. non-executive director. Ms Harris I and Sarang Halai, an audit manager technical officer. Mr Gilmore has more than 40 years' experience has been a non-executive director for three, has been promoted to associate principal, in the construction industry. Natalie Dawson has been appointed • Cape Range with Portman Mining, Territory audit. Joe Graziano, Alan Thomas, Mark De Luca and chief financial officer. Ms Dawson has held senior management Wayne Waterworth has been Resources, , Burswood and Paul Fauarl have been appointed as principals, business roles with Macmahon Holdings Ltd, Rio Tinto and Clough Ltd. Heidi apPointed as a non-executive Evans & Tate. advisory services. All four were previously principals with Spitzer has been appointed stakeholder and office manager. director. Mr Waterworth was I Hayes Knight. previously managing director of • Swick Mining Services MatchPoint for Wilson Falcon Gold . Ian Hobson has been appointed Wood & Grieve moves company secretary. Mr Hobson Rob Wilson has joined project approval and bid speCialist, • Carbon Conscious is a chartered secretary who Wood & Grieve Engineers has apPOinted Jose Granado as MatchPoint Consulting, as director. Rob brings 18 years Trevor Stoney has been acts as a non·executive director national bui lding services co-ordinator, while Brett Davis experience of winning and managing major capital projects with appointed as a non-executive and company secretary to has been appointed as Perth building services manager. international investment banking and engineering majors. Most director following the resignation listed companies and private Mr Granado previously headed the consulting engineering of Andrew McBain. recently he was director with Macquarie Capital Funds in South organisations. He wi ll replace team for the Fiona Stanley Hospital. Africa. • East Energy Resources Jason Glltay. Rex Littlewood has been • Tox Free Solutions apPointed as a non-executive director, while Will Randal has Bob McKinnon has been appOinted been appointed as an alternative non-executive chairman . Mr non-executive director. McKinnon has previously held the role of managing director of Mining? Are you extracting the • Enerji Austa l and Fleetwood Corporation. Samantha Tough has resigned He will replace Gerrard Styles, as a non-executive director. who has stepped down from the most value for your own finances? board. • Finbar Current chief executive officer • TPL Corporation and company secretary, Darren Nell Hackett 11as been appOinted Pateman, has been appOinted company secretary following Ian manae:ine: director. Edward Bank . • NEWS

I IN BRIEF UBS backs $750m wind farm Best Western 's new Ascot property • Aim ee Sa rgent HOTEL chain Best Western International ha s added a three-year-o ld Perth property, THIS weekend marks the official whi ch has changed ownership launch of the state's bi ggest wind num erou s times in its farm proj ect, three months after the relative ly short life, to its $75 0 million development changed Western Australian portfoli o. hand s. As part of a confidential Th e Collgar wind farm , located agree ment, Best Western 25km south-east of M erredin, will rebranded the Quest Ascot have a capacity of 206 megawatts, Village on Great Eastern nearly doubling the state's total pro­ Highway in Ascot as Best duction of wind power. Western Ascot Serviced Earl y works commenced last Apartments at the start of September at Coligar, which will the month. have 111 turbines erected at com­ The apartments, which pletion , with a further 16 turbines includes 36 twin-s hare planned for a later date. bedroom s and 33 residenti al Coil gar chi ef executive Alistair apartments at the rea r of th e Craib said it would be the largest property now being managed one-off development of a wind farm by the Hospitality Inn Group, in the Southern Hemisphere to date, brings Best Western 's an achievement c urre~tl y held by the accommodati on offerings in in South WA to 11 in total. Australia, which has 99 turbines . Hos pitality Inn Group chi ef I Mr Craib is heading up a newly executive Chri s pye was one of the origin al consortium appointed executive team , which LOCATION : Alistair Craib says CoUgar Wind Farm's proximity to th e electricity grid is one of will di vide its time between the com­ members that built the pany's head office in West Perth and th e reasons it gain ed support from investors and the local community, Photo: Grant (urrall pro perty about three years the Merredin site. ago. Coligar is j ointly owned by bank­ Once operation al, the wind farm will station at the site, which w ill be "Over time it has changed , RENEWABLES in g group UBS's International I employ between 12 and 20 people. completed by May next year. Mr ownershi p numerou s times, Infrastructure Fund ~ its first 'green­ The majorsupplier to the project Craib sa id by that point Coli gar some people dropped out fi eld' acqui siti on - and Australi a's $750 million wind farm the is Dani sh company Vestas, which would have erected 70 turbines and while others came in," Mr pye largest super fund by members, Retail bi ggest in WA, won a $500 million contract to sup- would start supplying electri city to sa id . Employees Superannuation Trust. pl y the wind turbines. the grid for testing. He sa id hi s share grew from 125,000 WA homes to be Investec fund ed the proj ect during Mr Craib sa id th e project was an [ . While he was not willing to di s- 20 per ce nt originally to supplied with renewable the research and developm ent stage, attracti ve investm ent because of its close the amount paid to Western about 50 per cent currently, energy. with the majority of the then so ld it to UBS and R.EST last localit y to the existing energy grid Power, he said it was significantl y ., remaining 50 pe r cent year. - a matter of hundreds of metres, less than other geothermal proj ects belonging to Queenslander "On e of the concern s th at was compared to hundreds of kilometres that are located a long· w ay from Sid Kne ll 's two compa ni es - voi ced by the cOlTIl11qnity was th at concern was the social and environ­ for other renewable energy s ites. the grid. Prime Property and Central we [UBS and R.EST] were just mental impac t: the turbine noise and "Plu s it 's very fl at terrain, which "To actuall y establish networks Apa rtments Group. shadow flickering, as well as poten­ I' is great1for a wind fa rm because you to those areas, it will cost a huge going to flick it off in a few years "Thi s is the only Best ti al e l ec t r om ~g n e ti c interference. don't get vari ations in th e wind," amount and there seems to be no and that's certainl y not the case," Mr Western in Pe rth," Mr Pye The advantage of the Merredin site Craib said. he sa id. d ec i s i v~ acti on taken by e ither said. "And Qu est did an "The rea lity is that if the wind is is th at it 's located a significant di s­ "On an average basis we' l1 be political party to address thi s," Mr excellent job." there, then the farm will operate for a tance fTOm any residences, so there's generating e lectricity fo r 50 per Craib sa id. He said the property lot longer than the planned 25 years, "v irtually no impact". cent of the tin..J,e ; compared to some "The $ 1 billion proposed by was popul ar with peo ple assuming the grid can support it and The $75 0 million project is four of the European plants that are in Labor to upgrade the networks to travelli.ng from the cou ntry that there's still support for rcnew­ months into its 25-month construc­ the high teens, it 's a very stabl e me seems like a step in the ri ght and business peop le kee n to able energy." tion phase and is on track to erect resource." directi on, but it 's not rea lly going to access the airport. Me Cra ib said the oth er major the first turbine in January 20 II. Western Power is building a sub- go very far."