Operations at the Ulan Mine Complex are carried out in accordance with UCML’s Environmental Management Strategy (EMS). The purpose of the EMS is to document and implement the systems and processes which provide the means to apply consistent environmental and community management across the Ulan Mine Complex; ensure adherence to UCML’s statutory requirements and manage UCML’s environmental impacts and regulatory approvals and licences.

The EMS has been developed to guide the implementation and maintenance of environmental management across the Ulan Mine Complex. The EMS is aligned to the principles of ISO14001 (2004), Xstrata plc’s Business Principles and Sustainable Development Policy and XCN’s Environmental Management Framework (EMF).

The EMS forms the core of environmental and community management at the Ulan Coal Complex, and the framework from which the UCML’s Sustainable Development Management System (SDMS) will be developed

The EMS provides a structure for effective environment and community management at the Ulan Mine Complex, describing the process for effective planning, communication, documentation, monitoring, evaluation, review and feedback.  UCML aims to maintain and improve upon environmental and community performance, through regular monitoring, review and audits of the EMS to facilitate continual improvement.

The EMS is supported by specific documents, including management plans, procedures, forms and permits and approvals, which have been developed to:

• satisfy the relevant consent condition requirements of the Project Approval; and
• to indentify the controls and mitigation measures that are in place to manage the potential SD impacts associated with the operations.