Environmental Responsibility

At Ambre Energy, we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously. The long-term viability of our company and its projects will depend on the thoroughness with which we control the impacts of our projects and rehabilitate areas which we have mined or otherwise affected.

For example, the company’s Felton Clean Coal Project is located in a closely settled, agricultural area which includes some cropping capacity and which has suffered a shortage of water for many years. The company will be expected to rehabilitate any mined areas to a state equal to or better than its pre-mined state, and to minimize any impacts on local water sources.

Parallels can be drawn between the project at Felton and those that have been undertaken over many years in Australia’s Hunter Valley, which has the following features:

• Co-existence of mining operations with large-scale farms, hobby farms, wine industry and tourism
• Attractive agricultural landscapes
• Some towns (eg. Muswellbrook) have very large mining operations within 2 km
• Intense local scrutiny is leading to ever improving environmental standards and reduction of impacts
• Long history of mining has resulted in valuable bank of experience and number of innovative rehabilitation projects

Although the extent of Hunter Valley mining is many times larger than that proposed at Felton, the environmental lessons learned in the Hunter Valley will be of great benefit as Ambre Energy designs its projects.