1999-9-17 The goal of this book is to assist mining companies throughout the world to achieve environmental compliance and improve competitiveness in the context of growing environmental regulation and technological innovation. It is an essential book for the wide variety of professionals working on issues in mining.
Get PriceBased on the analysis of the Russian and international experience in solving social and environmental problems, related to the mining industry[1,2,3], WWF experts have prepared a project «Main Features of the Policy of Environmental and Social Responsibility of Mining Companies» aimed at reducing possible risks and negative consequencies in the development of mineral deposits.
Get Price2021-8-8 These laws outline the responsibilities of several federal agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in regulating mining operations. Other acts, such as the Safe Drinking Water Act, can be relevant to specific mining operations. National Environmental Policy
Get Price2014-12-12 processes for mining ventures in Finland, Sweden, Canada, Australia and Russia – and the resulting pollution control requirements – provide scope for combining tough environ-mental regulations with maintained industrial competitiveness. Mining companies are affected by several types of environmental regulations (Eggert, 1994), but in this
Get PriceThe common view of mining is of environmental degradation. Few individuals outside the industry are aware of modern mining practices and associated business, environmental, and public policy issues (highlighted in Appendix A) or of how mining companies are
Get Price2012-11-26 environmental and social management, health and safety improvements, energy efficiency and revenue transparency. The Mining Operations Policy highlights current practices and addresses areas that call for special attention, particularly the expansion of the mining
Get Price2021-8-8 Mining companies are required by law to make financial provision for mining-related environmental rehabilitation. If in the form of a trust fund, the Income Tax Act permits the deduction of this provision from income, and exempts from tax the receipts and accruals of registered environmental funds established to hold these provisions.
Get Price2010-6-1 Since many companies now publish annual sustainability reports, it is possible to link long-term trends in mining to key environmental aspects such as water and energy consumption, solid wastes, chemical inputs, greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. Collectively, these aspects are broadly referred to as ‘resource intensity’.
Get Price2021-2-1 The areas of mining law and policy for which the three countries most closely aligned with the best practices presented in the MPF were the legal and policy framework, financial benefit optimization, and environmental management (see Table 1). In each of the three countries, these pillars were assessed at a medium level of implementation readiness. On the whole there was reason for measured optimism, though significant opportunities exist to further enhance positive laws and policies within each pillar. That said, while the laws and policies within these three pillars did show some strengths on paper, a lack of financial and human resources and capacities to implement and enforce these laws was a common—and very significant—barrier to the mining
Get Price2006-1-1 For mining, one outcome of the CSR agenda is the increasing need for individual companies to justify their existence and document their performance through the disclosure of social and environmental information. This paper explores recent trends in the reporting of such impacts and issues in the global mining industry.
Get Price1999-9-17 The goal of this book is to assist mining companies throughout the world to achieve environmental compliance and improve competitiveness in the context of growing environmental regulation and technological innovation. It is an essential book for the wide variety of professionals working on issues in mining.
Get Price2021-8-9 2021-8-9 This policy specifically applies to activities regulated under the Mining Act 1978. POLICY The principal objective for environmental regulation is: Resource industry activities are designed, operated, closed,
Get Price2012-11-26 environmental and social management, health and safety improvements, energy efficiency and revenue transparency. The Mining Operations Policy highlights current practices and addresses areas that call for special attention, particularly the expansion of the mining
Get PriceIn environmental policy applications relating to mining companies, there is considerable power from inhabitants in the catchment area. The regulated mining firms have power on their product market, their customers may have market power and the inhabitants in
Get Price2002-2-1 Further, it has helped to put many of these operations in a better position to anticipate problems with waste and avoid costly environmental cleanup. Some mining companies (see, e.g. Falconbridge, 2000, Rio Tinto, 2001) have even gone one step further by obtaining international EMS certification—in most cases, that of the International ...
Get Price2018-4-17 An assessment of two major gold mining companies in Ghana illustrates what you can gain by monitoring your environmental performance. Reported in 2013 and covering 4-7 years of environmental data from before and after, this assessment for ISO 14001 Environmental
Get Price2021-2-1 The Mining Policy Framework: Synthesis Report INTRODUCTION When struggling to meet the resource needs of a growing population, it can be easy to overlook the role that mining can play in a nation’s long-term social and economic development. Mining can generate jobs and much-needed revenues; it can promote the development of a more skilled
Get Price2006-1-1 A basic content analysis, see Frost , was used to explore and compare the disclosure of social, environmental and ethical policy statements in the reports of the top 10 mining companies; the paper looks at trends in such policy statements, rather than attempting to assess whether these policies are actually applied in any meaningful way. The ...
Get Price2021-3-15 Australian mining companies have already embraced measures deemed by KPMG’s report to be essential to the future of mining. Those being strong Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) measures.
Get Price2021-7-19 2021-7-19 environmental and social issues that may impact the firm or our clients. Among other activities, the Environmental and Social Risk Management (ESRM) Group provides internal subject matter expertise on environmental and social risk, acts as an advisor to the businesses, conducts diligence on relevant transactions, and monitors emerging risks.
Get Price2013-12-10 Much of the environmental degradation in mining sites is caused by the use of mercury which pollutes water sources and has an adverse effect on the health of the workers and the community at large. To minimise pollution arising from the mining sector, the National Environmental Policy, 1997, provides for the following:
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Get Price2018-12-9 governments, ministries, departments, investment analysts, foreign-owned mining companies and environmental interest groups. In addition, written submissions were . received from several interested parties during the consultative process. ... minerals and mining policy in South Africa, was a document containing proposals that have been drafted ...
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Get Price2020-8-12 Figure 1 offers a list of policy prescriptions, but the three components are the most constitutive of “good governance” in mining; generating fiscal responsibility and strengthening environmental provisions are widely accepted corporate and state strategies to enhance the legitimacy of mining amidst political contestation over its role in ...
Get Price2004-1-5 Environmental Policy (English Version) ABC Farms commits to meet all environmental rules and regulations in the swine industry and to strive to protect our environment through sound management practices and decisions. ABC Farms will prevent pollution by striving to minimize waste generation and resource consumption.
Get Price2020-6-18 Mining companies have long wanted access to the metal ore contained in the Boundary Waters. From 1888 to 1967, over three-quarters of the nation’s iron ore production was done in the town of Ely near the Boundary Waters [2] , however, mining companies have long been denied access to the Boundary Waters and the areas adjacent, as they are a ...
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