Horizon Power :: Environment Overview Statement

Our Environmental Objectives

Horizon Power will:

Assess the environmental, social and financial implications in the production, distribution and use of energy;
Instil a sense of environmental responsibility amongst our people, ensuring they have the environmental awareness, skill, motivation, resources and support;
Protect the natural and cultural environment in all our operations in a socially responsible manner;
Embrace the principles of waste minimisation and pollution prevention;
Systematically manage our activities to achieve and promote continual improvement in our environmental performance, by setting objectives and targets, assessing our achievements and continuously improving our Environmental Management System;
Meet all legal obligations and industry agreements and require the same standards of compliance from our contractors and suppliers;
Establish, monitor and review environmental targets and publicly report environmental performance;
Adopt cost-effective measures to abate greenhouse emissions as part of business decisions;
Position Horizon Power as a leader in the development and application of renewable and alternative energy; and
Communicate with and involve all interested people on environmental issues in an open, transparent and timely manner.

Our expectation of you as a service provider to us is that you will be:

Aware of Horizon Power's environmental policy and applicable environmental legislation;
Aware of Government agency obligations;
Aware of the environmental issues and risk associated with the work / project / site; and
Perform work for Horizon Power in a way that takes into account all environmental incident management and emergency response procedures.