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Full Disclosure 2016

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Key questions shareholders should ask

Environmental non-compliances reported by affected communities, the media, & NGOs

BHP has frequently been linked with pollution problems in South Africa. The 2014 Bench Marks report, ‘Policy Gap 9 – South African Coal Mining: Corporate Grievance Mechanisms, Community Engagement Concerns and Mining Impacts’, states that a 2010 study by the DWA “found that majors such as Anglo and BHP Billiton have little regard for water and environmental legislation and regulations”.1 The Bench Marks report also dealt more generally with pollution and environmental damage caused by mining operations in Mpumalanga, and noted that the DWA study supported its findings in this regard.2

  1. Policy Gap 9, South African Coal Mining: Corporate Grievance Mechanisms, Community Engagement Concerns and Mining Impacts, Bench Marks Foundation, at p37, available at http://www.bench-marks.org.za/research/policy_gap_9.pdf (last accessed on 7 November 2016).
  2. Policy Gap 9, South African Coal Mining: Corporate Grievance Mechanisms, Community Engagement Concerns and Mining Impacts, Bench Marks Foundation, at p38, available at http://www.bench-marks.org.za/research/policy_gap_9.pdf (last accessed on 7 November 2016).