Minimising the impact of our activities on the environment is a key objective of our business. We aim to minimise our environmental footprint and equip our people to apply excellence to the management of environmental aspects.
MMG recognises that excellence in managing environmental responsibilities is essential to long-term success. Our environmental standards set the internal benchmark for how we aim to operate. Through robust management systems and operating processes, we aim to ensure that our activities have the lowest possible impact on the natural environment and our host communities.
Our operating sites have environmental specialists available to assess, monitor and provide advice to our site management teams. Where required, we engage additional expertise to ensure that we have access to the best possible information and analysis on managing environmental aspects across our diverse range of operations and locations.
The efficient management of natural resources, including water and energy, is becoming an increasingly important focus at our operations. The different climatic regimes in which we operate require us to focus equally on water use efficiency and appropriate water discharge management to ensure the protection of ecosystems in our local water catchments.
In recognition of the fact that climate change is a global problem requiring an integrated global solution, we focus our efforts on implementing opportunities for energy efficiency where clear value to the business can be demonstrated. This complements our ongoing commitment to key Australian Government programmes for greenhouse and energy.
Our environmental effort is underpinned by a strong corporate governance framework that includes proactive reporting and disclosure on environmental matters to Government and other key stakeholders. This is an important component of the way we operate.