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06 Suncor: report on sustainability 2014

Performance at a glance continued

Key focus areas for air emissions management AIR EMISSIONS*
include air quality monitoring, sulphur dioxide (thousand tonnes/year)

(SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile
organic compounds (VOCs). Suncor’s total 2009** 2010 2011 2012
2013
reported emissions to air in 2013 decreased
150

by almost 20 per cent compared to 2012 levels, 100
primarily due to reduction in emissions from
Oil Sands and the divestiture of North America
50
Onshore facilities.

0
70.4 72.7 58.6 55.8 (1) 39.7 Oil Sands
2.0 2.4 2.6 2.8
3.3 In Situ
26.1 16.9 11.5 11.0
8.0 North America Onshore
(1) There was considerable reduction in VOC emissions values in 2013 compared 7.6 6.9 5.3 3.0 3.2 East Coast Canada
to previous years due to extensive sampling conducted in the mining and (2)
21.8 16.0 17.5 14.1 15.4 Refining & Marketing
dedicated disposal areas and increase in VOC emissions testing frequencies. 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 St. Clair ethanol plant
There was also a reduction in SO2 and NOx emissions from Oil Sands energy and utilities (E&U) plant and can be attributed to the use of alternate fuels 128.1 115.1 95.8 87.1
69.9
Suncor Energy
and major outages that occurred at the E&U Plant.
(2) Referred to in previous reports as International & Offshore. Historical data *
Air emissions include SO2, NOx and VOC emissions.
prior to 2010 included other international assets operated at that time. ** Beginning in 2009, includes consolidated post-merger data.
Since 2010 only air emissions from Terra Nova off the east coast of Canada
has been included.

Key focus areas for water management include WATER WITHDRAWAL AND CONSUMPTION
implementing water management strategies
(million m3)
and conducting water risk assessments in
speciic facilities and/or business units as
2009* 2010
2011** 2012
2013
180
well as designing more systems to treat and
recycle tailings from our oil sands operations.
Suncor’s total water consumption increased 120

by four per cent compared to 2012 levels.
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0

Water withdrawal 120.8 139.0 137.6 143.6 (1) 155.9
Water consumption
56.0 50.1
39.9 56.6 (2)
58.8
* Beginning in 2009, includes consolidated post-merger data.
** Beginning in 2011, the methodology for calculating the water withdrawal metric for Oil Sands, In Situ and Refining & Marketing
(1) Water withdrawal can potentially be subject to variances year over year was updated to include industrial runoff volumes as described in the Performance Indicators section of the Report on sustainability.
based on environmental factors (e.g., precipitation).
Data and process improvements implemented since 2012 improved the understanding of site conditions for specific facilities.
(2) Water consumption is deined as the quantity of water used and not returned
to its proximate source or no longer available in its original form.

Since Suncor opened Canada’s irst oil sands LAND USE AT OIL SANDS

mine in 1967, our oil sands operations have (cumulative hectares)
disturbed approximately 21,690 hectares of
land. As of the end of 2013, the company
2009 2010 2011 2012
2013
24,000
had reclaimed approximately 1,708 hectares,
or nearly eight per cent of the total land
16,000
disturbance of our oil sands operations to date.

8,000
(1) Following Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development’s issuance
of standards for Geographic Information Systems spatial data reporting in 2010, 0
Suncor re-digitized all permanent reclamation areas and removed disturbance
feature types (such as roads, power lines, pipelines, etc.) that occurred Land disturbed 17,161 19,737 20,023 21,303
21,690
post-reclamation. This resulted in a removal of 96.3 hectares of re-disturbance from the total of reclaimed areas prior to 2010. As such, the changes in the Land reclaimed 1,708 1,095 1,303 1,439
1,542 (1)
reclamation areas for each year and the total area permanently reclaimed to
Per cent reclaimed
7.9
6.4 6.6 7.2 7.2
the end of 2010 have been updated to relect these changes. Reclaimed lands
have not been certiied as such. For further details on the deinition of
reclaimed, see the legal notice at the end of this publication.