PRIZMA

As discussions about the failed Bill C300 are subsiding, BHP Billiton's sustainability report is being mocked and NGOs lodged complaints about the company’s Mozal aluminum smelter with the JSE SRI Index and IFC’s independent recourse mechanism. (more...)

Water use intensity (and quality) is critical to the extractive sector. Do we need better reporting metrics or should we look at water offsets to make a real difference? (more...)

Busy with a GRI reporting benchmarking study, the recent Water Disclosure 2010 Global Report made me think: is this relevant to mining and reporting and who was conspicuously absent?  (more...)

GRI launched its Mining & Metals Sector Supplement (MMSS) in March 2010. More recently, GRI also published a standard GRI Index template. Does such a template add value to reporters in the mining sector? (more...)

You can now access Prizma News Fall 2010.

PDAC is initiating a GRI compatible reporting platform.  MAC may integrate TSM within other frameworks. Will this catalyze new growth in sustainability reporting in the mining sector?

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Officially retired from predicting world cup soccer games, Octopus Paul now expects proliferation of first-time sustainability reporting amongst Canadian listed mining companies. Will Paul be right again? (more...)

While some may still be wondering how long they can get away without reporting, others see this as an opportunity to leverage sunk costs, impress investors and drive performance improvement. All first time reporters will be wondering about one thing: what is the length of that proverbial string? What are cost drivers of inaugural sustainability reporting? (more...)

As noted in an earlier blog, GRI launched its Metals and Mining Sector Supplement during PDAC’s 78^th Annual Conference held in early March in Toronto which attracted 21,600 attendees. So how and why did PDAC manage to steal the show at GRI’s June conference session on the Mining and Metals Sector Supplement? (more...)

Unable to attend the GRI conference in Amsterdam, I watched the many taped snippets of the Mining & Metals Sector Supplement session on YouTube. One take away from a presentation by First Peoples Worldwide suggests that GRI reports are important but also that they are not designed with local communities as target audience in mind. (more...)