Kennecott Eagle Minerals: Communities

Communities

Kennecott Eagle Minerals is dedicated to integrating itself into the communities surrounding its operations. Kennecott must manage its impacts professionally and transparently while building positive relationships and creating local benefits. Effective community engagement is central to our success.

Mutual respect requires us to understand issues that are important to our neighbors, and our neighbors to understand what is important to our business. Our community and environmental work is closely coordinated and takes into account peoples’ perceptions of the effects and consequences of our activities.

Kennecott uses expertise to harness resources and create prosperity for our shareholders, employees, communities, governments and business partners through salaries, taxes and contracts.

To develop projects and eventually build and operate a mine, we understand that we need access to land, water, and the geological resource of a place. This access is given to the company in two fundamental ways:

Governments and regulatory authorities provide official permits and licenses if we meet certain legal and financial criteria.
People near, or who have interest in the resources permit us to operate and perform our jobs if they are confident and trust that we are managing our work and our impacts in ways that respect the environment and their way of life.

Healthy communities, from a socio-economic, environmental, and sustainable development perspective are both a corporate responsibility and a practice that benefits our business. Our willingness to communicate openly about our successes and challenges in community engagement is fundamental to building enduring relationships and trust.

For more information about our interaction with the community contact:

Chantae Lessard - Principal Advisor Communities and Social Performance

Office (906) 486-1257

Community Hotline (906) 486-6970

Contributions and Programs

Our investment in local communities reflects our approach to develop true partnerships, be it in areas of education, health, culture or the environment.

Kennecott is committed to actively participating with local organizations by supporting projects that promote long-term mutual benefit to the communities where we have a presence. We support efforts that focus on community and human development, public education, environment, and arts and culture, giving preference to organizations working across community sectors toward a solution that will benefit the greater community.

To request corporate funds from Kennecott please read our Community Assistance Guidelines.