For its outstanding performance in the Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative, Glencore’s Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations (INO) has been recognized with a special TSM Leadership Award by the Mining Association of Canada (MAC).
The TSM Leadership Award is granted only when an operation meets or exceeds a level "A" ranking in its results across all of the six performance areas of the TSM initiative (known as protocols): safety and health, Aboriginal and community outreach, crisis management, tailings management, biodiversity conservation management, and energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions management.
An operation's TSM results must be externally verified to be eligible for this recognition. In addition to the TSM Leadership Award, Sudbury INO was also recognized with TSM Performance Awards for each of the six performance areas of TSM based on its 2013 results.
“The TSM Leadership Award is a rare distinction,” Pierre Gratton, MAC president and CEO, said in a news release. “It is given to operations that demonstrate leadership in these key areas. With this award, we celebrate the dedicated employees of Glencore's Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations for being a role model to other mining operations in Canada.”
Glencore vice-president Marc Boissonneault said the milestones achieved in sustainable development performance were a direct result of employee contributions.
“This award represents our concerted efforts on a number of important fronts, including the advancement of our safety culture to much higher levels. I am especially proud of our employees in this regard as safety is core to everything that we do.”
“To see that we have also been recognized for our performance in five other key areas in our sustainable development framework is also quite an honour,” Boissonneault added. “We take pride in being responsible stewards of the environment and we value our relationships with our stakeholders as they are an extension of our business in so many respects.”
While the Sudbury INO's scores reflect leadership across all TSM performance areas, it also stands out for demonstrating best practices in energy use and GHG emissions management. In this area, the operations achieved the highest possible ranking—level "AAA"—across all of the indicators that make up this protocol.
Sudbury INO operates Nickel Rim South and Fraser Mine, Strathcona Mill and the Sudbury Smelter, producing nickel, copper cobalt, gold, silver, platinum and palladium. The company employs about 1,300 permanent people.
