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Suncor: report on sustainability 2014
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590,000
$1.3 billion

seedlings planted at our to implement
oil sands site in 2013
tailings technology

As of the end of 2013, we had completed
Our environmental performance goals
Environmental
more than $1.3 billion of work to implement Indicator
In 2009, we committed to a series of strategic performance goal*
the TROTM tailings management process in environmental performance goals. These goals
Water are challenging and require significant resources Reduce freshwater consumption
our oil sands mining operations. In the years (capital investments and people) and focus.
ahead, we expect this process will help us by 12% by 2015
Our approach is to assign the right resources at
reduce the number of tailings ponds at our Land
the right time. Project execution and operational Increase reclamation of disturbed
current mine site. Progressively reclaiming excellence are key to closing gaps and achieving land area by 100% by 2015

tailings ponds will allow us to reclaim the the goals.
Energy Improve energy efficiency
entire mine site faster – resulting in a more efficiencyby 10% by 2015
* The base year for the planned improvements is 2007. The goals **
rapid return of natural habitats.
were established in 2009, and our business units address them
Air in the annual business and capital allocation planning cycles. Reduce air emissions
** Suncor has developed a 2015 energy efficiency performance
by 10% by 2015
In 2013, we marked a milestone: the oficial target and a complementary longer-term energy intensity goal.
opening of a reconstructed fen, a prevalent

type of boreal wetland, near our Oil Sands base
plant that is designed to emulate the properties

of a natural fen watershed. Our fen – one
of the irst reclaimed fen watersheds in the

world – is the culmination of 10 years of
collaborative research.

Our partnership with the Alberta Conservation

Association entered its second decade in
2013. Together, we have secured the protection

of more than 23.4 square kilometres (5,777
acres) of select areas in boreal forest to date.

The goal is to offset habitat affected by oil
sands operations.

Planting and nurturing of vegetation that

matures and helps support a healthy self-

sustaining ecosystem is a key part of reclaiming
disturbed lands and habitat. By the end of 2013,

we had planted more than 6.5 million trees, *
Reclaimed lands have not been certiied as such by government
shrubs and aquatic plants on our oil sands site – regulators. For further details on the deinition of reclaimed,
see the legal notice at the end of this publication.
including 590,000 in the previous 12 months M Trademark of Suncor Energy Inc.
alone. Together with industry peers, we have
on the web: More details on our environmental
also helped plant an additional 2.2 million trees performance, including water strategies, our
and shrubs in disturbed areas across the oil TRO process, new reclamation advances and
collaborative efforts to protect biodiversity
sands region since 2009.
at sustainability.suncor.com