Chapter 8 Social Responsibility: The “S” in ESG
Sustainability Stories from the C-Suite and Boardroom …
I had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Papua New Guinea in the late 1990s. This was a starkly different physical and social setting from anything I had yet experienced. As a member of a high-level executive audit team, we were charged with assessing the environmental status of the controversial Ok Tedi mining operation for BHP Billiton (then BHP).
The Ok Tedi mine was critically important to BHP. One of the largest copper mines in the world, the mine was (at the time of our visit) about 15 years through its useful life of 30 years. Moreover, the mine was facing considerable pressure for environmental reasons. Despite being located in one ...
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