Climate Change
We understand our joint responsibility to reduce the carbon intensity of our mines, our chain and distribution channels.
We are individually and corporately responsible for supporting global, Canadian and British Columbia initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions and increase energy efficiencies. Our commitment is to reduce the carbon intensity (the amount of carbon dioxide equivalents we emit per tonne of steelmaking coal) of our operations by 15% by 2030, from 2019 levels.
Climate Change Reporting
In 2021 we also produced our first climate change report. Our 2022 Climate Change Report was published in alignment with the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) framework, including reporting our Scope 3 emissions.
Our targets and commitmentsOver the last three years, we have worked hard to assess, map and develop opportunities to achieve or exceed the 15% target.
Our journey to reduce our carbon intensity is multi-faceted, requiring us to deal with different sources of emissions that require different solutions. The two major sources of emissions for Conuma are carbon dioxide, produced when our mining fleets consume diesel, and fugitive methane, released when we mine our steelmaking coal.
What we are doing to reduce diesel emissions
Improving the fuel efficiency of our operations, including reducing unnecessary idling
Constructing electric-powered conveyors to move steelmaking coal in place of haul trucks
Increasing BC Hydro power supply to our mines so we can operate electric equipment in the future
Starting in 2024, we will start utilizing renewable diesel in place of some petroleum diesel
Conuma’s steelmaking coal deposits have some of the lowest coalbed methane levels in the world
Canada’s assigned emission factor for BC open-pit coal mines is 0.93kg of methane per tonne of coal mined. Our research suggests this value may be inaccurate by a factor of several times what our operations actually emit in fugitive methane.
We are undertaking a thorough science-based assessment to refine and determine more accurate fugitive methane emissions site-by-site.
Our assessment has included satellite and aerial monitoring, ground-based sampling and core hole analysis, combined with a sophisticated gas modelling approach.
We expect to be able to report our internally calculated methane emissions in our 2024 Climate Change Report.
Where we are
200 – 235 Front St.
PO Box 2140 Tumbler Ridge
BC V0C 2W0 Canada.