Bengalla
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Bengalla is committed to sustainable development and ensuring positive environmental, social and economic outcomes for the community in which it operates.
The mine ensures that all employees and visitors comply with Coal & Allied's environmental management policies to minimise the mine's impact on the environment and to ensure that mined land is effectively rehabilitated. Bengalla also implements a range of environmental management plans and programmes on site.
Bengalla is committed to the long term social and economic well being of the Upper Hunter. Through Coal & Allied's community relations programme and the Coal & Allied Community Trust, the mine is working to help provide positive long term outcomes for the region.
2007 Sustainable development report
| 2007 | 2006 | |
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 211 males, 22 females, Total 233 | 204 males, 24 females, Total 228 |
| Saleable production | 5.2 million tonnes. Production was impacted by decreased coal chain capacity, rail and port constraints and two flood events. | 5.5 million tonnes |
| Health & safety LTIFR (200,000) | Target 0.37, 2007 performance 1.03 | 0.44 |
| Freshwater use (litres per tonne of product coal) | Target 61, 2007 performance 102. Drought conditions in the first half of the year led to a greater reliance on river water than originally planned. | 155 |
| Energy use (gigagoules per tonne of product coal) | Target 0.112, 2007 performance 0.172 | 0.184 |
| Greenhouse gas emissions (kg -CO2 per tonne of product coal) | Target 71.11, 2007 performance 75.7. Total energy use reduced, however, levels remain above target due to decrease in coal production. | 79.6 |
| Annual rehabilitation & disturbance (hectares) | Target rehabilitation 20, 2007 performance 5. Target disturbance 36, 2007 performance 49. Bengalla redisturbed 11.72 hecatres of previously rehabilitated land due to increasing size of waste dumps, requiring the re-disturbance of land previously rehabilitated, along with the disturbance of an additional 37.48 hectares. land rehabilitated was 4.95 hectares. | Rehabilitation 44, Disturbance 20. |
2007 Highlights
- Bengalla completed a weed control and revegetation programme and planted 3,000 seedlings along a 16 kilometre stretch of the Hunter River (adjacent to Bengalla owned land). The aim of the ongoing program is to return the riparian zone along the river to native vegetation.
- Fifty five students from Muswellbrook Public School joined forces with Bengalla Mine and the Upper Hunter River Rehabilitation Initiative (UHRRI) to plant 600 trees on a site near the Hunter River.
- Bengalla's maintenance and coal handling and preparation plant teams recorded 45 safety improvements and innovations to boost safety levels and improve work processes.
- A modular mining system was introduced to allow equipment to be monitored and tracked. The new system was one of Bengalla's Energy Improvement Projects to decrease carbon emissions and address climate change.
- Business improvement projects delivered more than $12 million in value. One initiative involved D11R noise suppression which reduced cabin noise from more than 85 decibels to 76 decibels. Additional value was delivered through optimised equipment replacement and more efficient mining designs.
- Bengalla won a recycling competition run by Thiess for a trial recycling used gloves. The gloves are recycled by a New South Wales company that employs people with disabilities.
