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6.6.3 Environment – performance data

2020 2019 (1) 2018 (1)
Land (2)
Land owned, leased or managed hectares 8,704,300 10,018,600 10,001,500
– Land disturbed hectares 151,000 144,413 141,500
– Land rehabilitated (3) hectares 26,050 25,649 27,180
– Land set aside for conservation (3) (4) hectares 66,500 66,500 28,000
Water (5)
Withdrawals (6) ML 380,330 352,950 339,870
Water withdrawals by quality – Type 1 ML 51,610 58,850 34,900
Water withdrawals by quality – Type 2 ML 35,670 37,560 44,150
Water withdrawals by quality – Type 3 ML 293,060 256,550 260,820
Water withdrawals by source – Surface water (7) ML 45,190 50,660 43,380
Water withdrawals by source – Groundwater ML 123,660 140,020 134,319
Water withdrawals by source – Seawater ML 211,510 162,260 162,161
Discharges ML 147,850 119,250 118,940
Water discharges by quality – Type 1 ML 0 0 0
Water discharges by quality – Type 2 ML 3,740 3,060 1,150
Water discharges by quality – Type 3 ML 144,110 116,190 117,790
Water discharges by destination – Surface water ML 3,970 2,940 2,730
Water discharges by destination – Groundwater ML 9,440 1,540 840
Water discharges by destination – Seawater ML 134,116 114,460 115,040
Water discharges by destination – Third party ML 310 320 320
Consumption (8) ML 258,120 268,620
Consumption – evaporation ML 126,120 139,980 140,760
Consumption – entrainment ML 109,550 107,270 17,870
Consumption – other ML 22,440 21,370 1,330
Recycled/Reused ML 250,090 246,420 261,620
Diversions ML
Diversions – withdrawals ML 102,780 101,520 16,290
Diversions – discharges ML 79,430 72,500 7,860
Waste
Hazardous waste – Mineral total (including tailings) (9) kt 15,000 13,500 13,100
Non-hazardous waste – Mineral tailings (9) (10) kt 175,000 167,000 137,000
Accidental discharges of water and tailings (11) (12) ML 0 0 0
Air emissions for FY2020 (13)
Legacy Queensland Olympic Nickel
Petroleum sites Coal NSWEC WAIO (14) Dam West Escondida Pampa Norte Potash
Total oxides of sulphur tonnes 43 0 73 15 93 1,246 14,677 26 99 1
Total oxides of nitrogen tonnes 2,824 8 29,772 6,115 24,921 742 3,354 10,595 4,529 38

Regional environment fines levied (12) in FY2020
Regional environment fines levied 2020 Number of Fines
Australia US$216,229 6
North America US$0 0
South America US$0 0
(1) FY2018 and FY2019 data includes Continuing and Discontinued operations (Onshore US assets) and FY2019 data includes Discontinued operations (Onshore US
assets) to 28 February 2019 and Continuing operations unless otherwise stated. Data in italics indicates that data has been adjusted since it was previously reported.
Water restatements are because of the change from the Minerals Council of Australia’s Water Accounting Framework to ICMM’s Water Reporting guidelines in 2019
and ongoing improvements in data quality. Land restatement is due to an improvement to BMA data collection.
(2) Land data is calculated as the total land area at the time of reporting.
(3) Data does not include land managed for rehabilitation or conservation as part of social investment.
(4) Material contributor (38,022 ha) includes the Emerald Springs Significant Environment Benefit credit area approved by the South Australian government.
(5) Data has been rounded to the nearest ten to be consistent with asset/regional Water information in this report. In some instances the sum of totals for quality, source
and destination may differ due to rounding. All water performance data excludes Discontinued operations (Onshore US).
(6) Third party water withdrawals have been reported by source.
(7) Data includes rainfall and run-off volumes captured and used during the reporting year; rainfall and run-off volumes that have been captured and stored are excluded
and will be reported in the future year of use.
(8) Data for water consumption metrics was collected for the first time in FY2019 across all operations. FY2018 data reflects partial volumes collected from Queensland
and NSW Energy Coal, WAIO and Pampa Norte operations only.
(9) For tailings related minerals waste these figures represent the total deposited in the reporting year.
(10) Year-on-year movement has been largely caused by an improvement in calculation methodology at our Coal assets from FY2019.
(11) Data reported for environmentally significant incidents.
(12) Does not include the dam failure at Samarco, our non-operated minerals joint venture.
(13) Data drawn from Australian NPI and US EPA Reporting and represent emissions over the 2020 calendar year for all Assets except Olympic Dam and US Petroleum,
which report emissions for the FY2020 financial year.
(14) WAIO includes ‘Other Iron Ore’ including ‘Projects’ and ‘Planning & Technical’ data.

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