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Home > Environment > Environmental Objectives and Initiatives
Power and Water uses three objectives as the starting point for our environmental performance:
We use a number of tools to ensure that we comply 100% with our legal and statutory obligations. They are detailed below.
Legal Register: we maintain a legal register that sets out in detail the regulatory requirements that apply to our business activities.
Australian Standards: we have a large number of liquid fuel and chemical storages, and we review them annually to ensure we comply with Australian Standards such as AS1940 - 2004: storage and handling of flammable and combustible liquids.
Codes of Practice: we are a signatory to the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA) Code of Environmental Practice. This means we must audit our compliance every two years. We are able to self-audit because we have a certified Environmental Management System in place. An internal audit was done in October 2006, and the results were provided to ESAA.
We are also a member of the Greenhouse Challenge Plus program and a participant in the Generator Efficiency Program. The Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources runs both programs, and we provide annual progress reports.
Our Integrated Management System (IMS) has a strong focus on identifying and mitigating risks to reduce the chance of environmental incidents.
We aim to achieve zero incidents through identifying potential risks to the environment before commencing a job, promoting awareness of potential impacts on the environment, and by establishing a program of reporting environmental hazards.
All environmental incidents that cause or have the potential to cause environmental harm are reported to the NT Environment Protection Agency within 24 hours.
As part of our Integrated Management System, we are developing environmental risk registers for our major facilities.
We have established registers for our most significant facilities such as the waste water treatment plants in Darwin and Alice Springs (eg Ludmilla Waste Water Treatment Plant) and major power stations (eg Channel Island Power Station). We are working our way through the 258 facilities we operate across the Northern Territory.
For more information read our Environmental Risk Management measures.