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SHERRITT INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION 2011 Summary Sustainability Report – Data & Tables THE DATA AND TABLES COMPENDIUM TO THE 2011 SUMMARY SUSTAINABILITY REPORT PROVIDES UPDATES TO KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND INFORMATION FOUND IN REPORTS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. THE DATA AND TABLES FOLLOW THE SAME THEMATIC SEQUENCE OF THE PREVIOUS REPORTS: ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY AND WORKFORCE. ALL DATA ARE ON A CALENDAR YEAR BASIS AND ALL REFERENCES TO CURRENCY ARE IN CANADIAN DOLLARS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM PREVIOUS REPORTS (NOT ORIGINALLY INCLUDED IN THE APPENDIX) HAS ALSO BEEN ADDED BELOW TO ENSURE THAT IT IS UPDATED FOR 2011. Corporate Our financial and operating performance: 2011 2010 Revenue ($ millions) 1,978.3 1,670.6 Net Earnings ($ millions) 197.3 144.8 Nickel Produced (tonnes) 34,572 33,972 Cobalt Produced (tonnes) 3,853 3,706 Coal Produced (millions of tonnes) 36.6 38.6 Net Working Interest Oil and Gas Produced (BOEPD(1)) 12,057 11,956 Electricity Sold (GWh(1)) 1,853 2,067 NOTE: All volume figures represent 100% of operations. No adjustments have been made to reflect joint venture ownerships. (1) BOEPD is “barrels of oil equivalent per day” and GWh is “gigawatt hours”. TABLE OF CONTENTS Corporate (above) | Environment p1 | Community p6 | Workforce p8 Environment Sherritt is committed to practicing responsible and principled environmental stewardship at all of its operations. E1. ENVIRONMENT GOAL MATRIX N = Not Achieved; Y = Achieved; P = Partially Achieved Goal Progress Result Report on environmental events as required Y All of the Divisions continue to follow the by operating permits and licenses requirements for their operations to remain in compliance. Keep annual reclamation levels in Canada Y Sherritt’s Moa Nickel Joint Venture (Moa) continues and Cuba consistent with previous year’s to work with the Cuban authorities to ensure performance to reduce reclamation backlogs. that reclamation is at appropriate levels. Both Long-term goal is to achieve a balance leveled and completed reclamation at Coal in between reclamation and disturbance. 2011 was above the trend from previous years. Minimize number of Species of Concern (SOC) Y SOC in the mine footprint have been progressively International Corporation Sherritt at the Ambatovy Joint Venture (Ambatovy) reduced from 173 to eight at the end of 2010 and through continued off-site surveys five at the end of 2011. for viable populations Receive Certified Emission Reduction P Request for issuance was made before the credits (CERs) for each registered end of 2011. Issuance is anticipated in 2012. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project on a regular basis Comply with local regulations for Y Both Metals and Coal continue to comply with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions | | SSR DATA 11 GHG regulations in Canada by contributing to the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund as established by Alberta’s provincial government. 1 E2. ENVIRONMENT REPORTS(1) Key Indicator (number of reports filed in Canada for Canadian Operations) 2011 Fort Saskatchewan(2) Air 2 Land 0 Water 1 Coal(3) Air 0 Land 4 Water 5 (1) This indicator shows the number of times reports were required due to exceedance of our operating approvals. (2) Fort Saskatchewan had two stack-limit exceedances during separate tests for particulate matter and ammonia at the ammonium sulphate granulation unit. A rigorous research program conducted internally successfully determined the contributing factors, resulting in changes to equipment and operating procedures. Subsequent testing demonstrated compliance with all emission limits. The water event report was related to a brief storm pond discharge from the site due to high regional precipitation in July 2011. Additional installed pumping capacity has allowed excess precipitation and surface runoff to be moved between storage ponds on site to address low probability, high precipitation events. (3) The following details describe events at Coal: Land – Two reports were related to spills of deleterious substances, which were contained and the materials recovered for disposal at regulated facilities; one report was related to hazardous waste storage and another was related to an operating approval contravention relating to the salvage of native plants. Water – Events mostly due to high precipitation in the prairies resulting in higher levels of suspended solids in water discharged from mine sites. Sherritt International Corporation Sherritt E3. RECLAMATION AT THE MOA MINE (ha) 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Affected 46 46 48 45 36 Reclaimed 43 74 85 82 68 E4. RECLAMATION AT COAL’S MINES (ha) 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 | SSR DATA 11 | | SSR DATA 11 Leveled(1) 1,143 912 643 928 1,064 Completed(2) 992 501 694 688 682 (1) Leveled: the return to contour specified as the provincial standard, as outlined in mining licenses. (2) Completed: leveled, contoured and topsoiled. 2 E5. SHERRITT COAL’S TOTAL RECLAMATION ACHIEVEMENT(1) Surface disturbed to Dec. 31, 2011 Approximate total reclaimed(2) Mine Ha Ha Percent Bienfait 2,551 1,934 75.8% Boundary Dam 8,733 7,418 85.0% Coal Valley 5,574 2,915 52.3% Obed Mountain 1,891 613 32.4% Paintearth(3) 3,339 2,182 65.2% Poplar River 5,647 4,813 85.2% Sheerness 4,412 3,485 79.0% Gregg River(4) 1,300 1,300 100.0% Total 33,447 24,660 73.7% (1) Cumulative life of mine total. (2) Completed: leveled, contoured and topsoiled. (3) Data revised from previous reports. (4) The Gregg River mine ceased operation in 2000. Reclamation was completed in 2011. E6. AMBATOVY’S NET IMPACT OF MINING ACTIVITIES IN FORESTED AREAS International Corporation Sherritt Land to be used Land to be Land to be Forest/Land Areas (ha) reclaimed (ha) conserved (ha) Mine Footprint 1,800 1,800 0 Slurry Pipeline 600 600 0 Roads/Infrastructure 100 0 0 On-Site Mine Conservation Forest(1) 0 0 3,644 Ankerana Offset (Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme area) 0 0 6,800 Subtotals 2,500 2,400 10,444 Net Gain 10,344 | | SSR DATA 11 (1) Ambatovy has redefined the mine conservation forest to include only land within Ambatovy’s land lease area. This caused a reduction of 1,556 ha that is outside of the lease area but was being conserved by Ambatovy. This land is rightly under the control/protection of the Analamay-Mantadia Forest Corridor (AMFC) administration. A 300 ha zone identified in previous reporting as on-site offset is now included in the mine conservation forest total. The AMFC is a forest area beside the Ambatovy mining lease area, currently including 8,319 ha of land (taking into account the 1,556 ha transferred). Ambatovy and a major international non-governmental organization were instrumental (through funding and services) in initiating the process to get protected status and forest management for this area but its administration will remain independent of Ambatovy. Ambatovy continues to work with the administration of the AMFC to 3 ensure that there is a continuous protected forest area linking mine conservation forests and other conservation zones. The result is one of the largest continuous forest areas in Madagascar. By working towards protected status for this land, Ambatovy is effectively increasing the total net gain in conserved land by an additional 8,319 ha, to 18,663 ha. E7. AMBATOVY’S INVENTORY OF SPECIES PROTECTED Species(1) 2011 2010 2009 2008 Lemurs Number of species inventoried to date(2) 16 16 13 16 Number of lemurs tagged with microchip identification(3) 52 0 40 216 Number of lemurs fitted with radio collars(4) 27 0 45 66 Birds Number of species inventoried to date 117 115 109 86 Number of eggs recovered from clearing operations to date 100 77 49 36 Number of eggs recovered that hatched 91 73 48 35 Number of birds relocated from clearing operations to date 153 122 80 61 Amphibians and Reptiles Number of Mantella frog sites discovered to date(5) 18 12 4 5 Number of reptiles recovered from clearing operations(3) 2,593 2,828 1,873 874 Number of amphibians recovered from clearing operations(5) 2,096 1,047 617 142 Fish Number recovered for captive breeding program(3) 0 912 812 901 Sherritt International Corporation Sherritt Flora Number of orchid species protected in orchid park 82 82 80 40 Number of orchid plants transplanted to orchid park 6,944 3,393 930 730 (1) Cumulative unless otherwise noted. (2) Change in 2009 due to change in methodology and taxonomy. (3) Non-cumulative. (4) Non-cumulative. Includes both new captures (12 in 2011) and re-captures (15 in 2011) to change collars or replace batteries. (5) Change in 2009 due to change in methodology. | SSR DATA 11 | | SSR DATA 11 E8. GHG EMISSIONS BY OPERATION (tonnes of CO2e) 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Metals Fort Saskatchewan Industrial (1) 64,300 Process Emissions 71,617 70,078 78,641 51,976 4 Fort Saskatchewan Refinery(2) 238,895 223,433 239,280 213,634 210,874 Ambatovy Ambatovy (mine, slurry pipeline, plant and port) 375,000 n/a n/a n/a n/a Coal Bienfait mine, Activated Carbon and Char Plants 228,539 226,794 126,647 119,437 116,631 Boundary Dam mine 51,156 50,083 50,314 46,175 42,419 Coal Valley mine 180,390 198,072 195,640 174,439 153,086 Genesee mine (100% basis) 48,995 55,056 48,642 51,556 42,197 Obed Mountain mine 43,435 41,329 18,043 0 0 Paintearth mine 27,106 31,250 26,375 24,982 24,431 Poplar River mine 25,736 20,877 20,369 17,470 20,289 Sheerness mine 29,197 29,504 25,880 30,314 31,135 Total(3) 1,312,749 962,323 821,268 756,648 693,038 (1) Industrial process emissions are those associated with such things as chemical reactions, which are not required as part of annual reporting to Alberta regulators.