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Carbon tax regime to affect liability for joint ventures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... attorneys at Allens Arthur Robinson. Grant Anderson The carbon tax will cover the stationary energy, industrial processing, mining and solid landfill/waste water treatment sectors, and applies to facilities (or activities) in those sectors that individually ...

Report: 100 South African companies used GRI in 2010

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... companies that had the highest GRI compliance scores, including Sasol Energy and Natural Resource, Gold Fields Metals and Mining, Lonmin Metals and Mining, Anglo American plc Metals and Mining and Xstrata Alloys Metals & Mining. Of the 20 companies with ...

ICMM releases climate change policy paper

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has released a paper calling for clear policies for a "predictable, measured transition to a long term price on greenhouse gas emissions" while recognising the mining industry's role in developing ...

GRI releases airport operator sector guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainability reporting. GRI offers several versions of the guidelines for different sectors, including financial services, mining and metals, and electric utilities. The airport operators sector supplement is the sixth sector to be covered. See Also ...

NSW coal miners engage in landmark stakeholder survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011  |  NEWS
... South Wales have engaged with stakeholders by commissioning a stakeholder survey to start a dialogue on the impacts of coal mining. The survey, commissioned by the New South Wales Minerals Council (NSWMC) shows stakeholders are broadly concerned with ...

Woodside shareholders reject carbon disclosure resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... "Broadly speaking, we are looking at again carbon-intensive emitters," he said. "They will probably predominately be in the mining area, but we hope to expand that out to manufacturing as well, possibly."

ANZ reviewing "sensitive sector" policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... with their customer engagement in socially and environmentally sensitive sectors including water, forestry, energy and mining and minerals. The review of the four sensitive sector policies "... will include stakeholder consultation and take place throughout ...

Transparency improving around miners' ESG reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011  |  NEWS
A growing number of mining and metals companies are providing data on social and environmental impacts, according to a report by the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). Of the ICCM's 18 members, 17 reported on their sustainability performance ...

Australian companies fail on labour reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011  |  NEWS
... stakeholders in their sustainability reporting, the report found. The report was commissioned by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, Mining and Energy Division. "For me, the real take-away was what those reporters thought in terms of ...

Climate change a portfolio risk: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011  |  NEWS
... response to carbon emission is strong, the industries that would be worse off include fossil-fuel industries such as coal mining, crude oil and gas extraction, petroleum refining and gas utilities, and carbon-intensive primary and manufacturing industries ...