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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
We are committed to managing the impact of our operations
on the surrounding environment. Through our comprehensive
Environmental Policy, we commit to sound environmental
management and practices, to providing adequate resources to
fulfill our responsibility, to comprehensive monitoring to assess our
effectiveness and to continuous improvement of our performance.
This policy is available on our web site (www.fcx.com).
Comprehensive monitoring continues to show there is no
significant level of mercury, arsenic or cyanide in the water,
sediment, fish or plants resulting from our operations. Our
long-term monitoring program includes the annual collection
of thousands of environmental samples and the conduct of
tens of thousands of analyses, which include aquatic biology,
aquatic tissue, plant tissue, mine water, surface water, ground
water, sanitary wastewater, river sediments and tailings. Our
sampling continues to demonstrate that the water in the river
that transports the tailings from the highlands meets the
Indonesian and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency drinking
water standards for dissolved metals and that the estuaries
downstream of the tailings deposition area are functioning
ecosystems based both on the number of species and the
number of specimens collected of nektonic, or free-swimming,
organisms such as fish and shrimp.
Comprehensive, ongoing scientific studies we have conducted
on land reclamation and revegetation in both the highlands and
the lowlands areas demonstrate that native species are easily
re-established in the highlands and that native species as
well as agricultural crops can grow well in the lowlands on soil
containing tailings, the finely ground natural rock residue from
our milling process.
Through our Environmental
Policy, we commit to sound
environmental management
and practices, to providing
adequate resources to
fulfill our responsibility, to
comprehensive monitoring to
assess our effectiveness and
to continuous improvement
of our performance.
18 FREEPORT-McMoRan COPPER & GOLD INC. 2006 Annual Report