It is the children and grandchildren of our local community shareholders who will live with the environmental successes and failures of our company. We are deeply aware that mistakes we make can have effects through generations. For this reason we want to ensure that our activities are carried out with the greatest respect for the environment and that local people, whose children will live with the consequences, are involved in the decision making process before any action is taken.
One example is our stance on Fracking. We have ruled out the use of fracking on our concession in response to the concerns of the local community. They feel that the current technology cannot safeguard their continued presence in their ancestral homelands, and poses an unacceptable risk to one of the world’s largest aquifers which lies beneath the concession.