Environmental Protection

Full compliance with all environmental regulations is standard practice for RWE. The measures we have adopted voluntarily, such as our efforts to preserve biodiversity, are aimed at winning broad public support for our actions.

All our activities are premised on full compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. This is especially important to the operation of our opencast mines and power stations as well as our gas and oil production. Society, however, expects more of us than this: as a corporate citizen we are expected to make an active contribution to the avoidance or minimisation of environmental impacts. Biodiversity is becoming an increasingly important focus of attention here.

Progress

The plants operated by the RWE Group functioned without any serious disruptions in 2010. All the conditions of our operating permits were met. The scope of our environmental management system has grown as a result of our integration of new companies and of Essent in particular. The system now covers 98 % of our operations.

Objectives in Environmental Protection