Environment Protection
NWPC is committed to environmental sustainability and energy efficiency, both as part of its responsibility to the community and as an important component of its long-term vision. The Company rigorously applied international best practices to the design of its mining and processing facility at Oleniy Ruchey in order to ensure the environmental safety of its operations. The environmental section of the mine construction design, developed by the Federal State Enterprise All-Russian Research Institute of Environment, has successfully passed the state expert review.
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The Oleniy Ruchey mine is being constructed in strict conformance with environmental standards. Under the terms of the Company’s subsoil licence for Oleniy Ruchey, an environmental monitoring programme has been developed for 2009-2026 at the licensed area of the deposit, within the boundaries of the plot allocated for the mine facilities, and in the entire impacted area. The programme was approved by the Subsoil Resources Management Agency in the Murmansk Region. |
As part of the programme, NWPC designed a project to establish a surveillance network and monitor surface and subsoil water in its area of operations in 2009-2010. The project aims at providing a qualitative assessment of surface and subsoil water, forecasting the degree of geological environmental alteration, and making recommendations to prevent and mitigate adverse effects caused by operations. Under the agreement between NWPC and the Murmansk Geological Survey Service, the project covers geophysical exploration in three mines and is focused on hydrogeological, laboratory, topographic, geodetic and data processing pilot work, monitoring investigations, water level measurements, and sampling of surface and subsoil water and residue.
