• Best practices in design include innovative technologies for maximizing energy efficiency and water re-use, and minimizing land disturbance.
• Operationally, environmental sustainability means that facilities are managed and activities are carried out in a way that maximizes environmental performance.
• When it comes to land reclamation, Albian Sands plans to use several new technologies to return the land to productivity and involve local stakeholders in the development of reclamation plans.

Local environmental impacts have been reduced in the design of the project. The Mine's local environmental footprint will be relatively small thanks to the following measures:

• Tailings management methods have allowed us to reduce the size of the tailings pond.
• Progressive land reclamation (filling the hole we've made approximately every seven years and replanting vegetation) minimize effects on wildlife and plants, reduces visual impacts and limits dust spread.
• On-site cogeneration - a highly efficient energy system that produces both electricity and heat from a single source - turns otherwise wasted heat into a useful energy source. Greater efficiency means carbon dioxide emissions are reduced.