Sustainability Pillars
Environmental Performance
We maintain the highest standards in our environmental practices to protect and restore the natural environment. We prevent, control, mitigate, and offset the impacts of mining throughout our entire value chain.
At Drummond, we have interpreted and embraced environmental management with a responsible attitude, aimed toward sustainability in a pragmatic manner and with a comprehensive vision that involves preventing, mitigating, controlling, and appropriately offsetting impacts. This is how we prioritize the protection, conservation, and recovery of biodiversity and its ecosystem services. We call this Effective Environmental Management, which translates into three areas of work:
The first step
Effective environmental management starts with project design, where priority consideration of existing natural resources allows for project layouts that avoid unnecessary environmental impacts on relevant ecosystems.
The challenge
As with any project, it is not possible to avoid all impacts. Therefore, management actions have been designed and implemented in an adequate, proportional and effective manner; this is another link in effective environmental management. Impact control and prevention efforts are permanently accompanied by monitoring and follow-up programs that provide reliable, relevant and timely information.
How is it measured?
We have networks that provide us with sufficient information on the territory in the area of influence, under criteria of quality and rigor, with the accreditations or verifications that prove it; this information management allows us to make decisions aimed at the effectiveness of actions for the prevention, mitigation and control of potential impacts.
The last step
The strategy is complemented by a coherent rehabilitation and compensation exercise. Through this process, the areas intervened by the projects are prepared to be inserted into the ecosystems and biodiversity of the region, so that they can become regional connectivity corridors in the future. The rehabilitation of these areas, recovered specifically for the protection and conservation of flora and fauna, completes a vision of sustainability for the project and our concept of Effective Environmental Management.
Environmental initiatives:
Protection
of the soil
At Drummond we have invested substantially in the protection of the soil and plant life in the areas of our operations in Colombia. We have a revegetation fleet composed of 4 100-ton trucks, 3 bulldozers, 1 loader, 2 tractors and a hydroseeding truck. More than 600 hectares have been reforested. The forestry compensation plan and the reforestation work in our state-of-the-art nurseries have established the company as an example for the coal industry. We see our environmental commitment as an opportunity to drive social development.
