Environmental Responsibility Policy

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Consistent with our purpose to provide reliable power at low cost for generations, BC Hydro is committed to producing, acquiring, delivering, and consuming electricity in an environmentally, socially and financially responsible manner.

BC Hydro's environmental priority is to achieve the long-term goal of no net incremental environmental impact. We recognize that our energy system causes both positive and negative impacts on the environment and on those with whom we share public resources. Where negative impacts cannot be avoided, we will work to mitigate or offset them, enhance affected habitat and sustain resources over the long term.

Specifically, BC Hydro will:

• meet environmental requirements defined by legislation, regulation, government directives and other environmental requirements to which BC Hydro subscribes;
• perform beyond environmental requirements where it makes sound business sense;
• work to reduce historic impacts by habitat development and/or improvement;
• better understand the effects of our business as a means to meet our long-term environmental goal and continually improve our environmental performance;
• develop and foster an electrical energy conservation culture in B.C. that leads customers to make a dramatic and permanent reduction in electricity consumption;
• work cooperatively with stakeholders and First Nations on resource use, management and conservation to increase public benefits from affected resources;
• publicly report on our environmental performance.