A Clean Environment

We are committed to operating our business with respect and care for the local and global environment. We strive to be a leader in environmental practices by complying with and moving beyond legal and other requirements, and by integrating environmental leadership into everything we do.

We continually refine our objectives for environmental leadership and revisit the indicators we use to measure our progress in protecting the air, water and land near our operations, and in reducing the amount of waste we generate.

Reducing our impact

We work to reduce our impact on the environment by monitoring and implementing measures to reduce our effect on air, water and land, optimizing the amount of energy we consume, and managing waste.

• Water: We have employed water treatment technologies that have improved the quality of the water released from our Saskatchewan uranium mining and milling operations.
• Waste: We continue to work on projects to reduce waste, improve the reclamation process and manage waste rock more effectively at all of our operations. In 2012, Blind River successfully removed a large inventory of waste materials stored at the facility. To ensure effective on-going waste management, the fuel services division has initiated plans to process these materials on an on-going basis to ensure accumulation does not occur in the future.
• Air: We are maximizing the lifespan of our operating sites to limit the areas impacted by our operations, including revitalizing the Key Lake mill (in operation for 30 years) and Rabbit Lake mill (in operation for 38 years). In doing so, we have improved air emissions by replacing some existing facilities.

Like other large industrial organizations, we use chemicals in our operations that could be hazardous to our health and the environment if they are not handled correctly. We train our employees in the proper use of hazardous substances and in emergency response techniques.

We are always investing in management systems and safety initiatives to achieve operational excellence and reliability, which also continues to improve our safety and environmental performance. We have incorporated life cycle value assessment into our project management and engineering processes to ensure social, environmental and financial risks have been more fully considered when designing new facilities.

Awarded For Social Responsibility

We are the 2013 recipient of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s Environmental and Social Responsibility award.

The award recognizes our outstanding accomplishments in establishing good community relations to support our exploration and mining operations.