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- Paul Hohnen, 20 April 2009
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Opinion:
Sustainability: Extracting the best from Canadian Miners?
Canada is the latest country to announce a CSR strategy. Paul Hohnen assesses its strengths and weaknesses.
While some elements have an ‘old wine in new bottles’ flavour about them, the overall package provides a welcome sectoral focus that should help respond to recent criticisms that not all Canadian miners are as responsible as others.
Entitled ‘Building the Canadian Advantage: A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy for the Canadian International Extractive Sector’, the measures are intended ‘to help Canadian mining, oil and gas companies meet and exceed their social and environmental responsibilities when operating abroad.’
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Comments:
Shouldn't CSR be the sole responsibility of corporates? - Sandra van der Lingen, 20 Apr 2009
Thanks for this article. I would expect these initiatives to be taken by an industry body of the Canadian mining companies. The name Corporate Social Responsibility suggests that the initiative for CSR related activities should be taken by the corporations. Do you think the companies be willing to participate in a government initiated programme?
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