Decarbonising extractive industries operations is a vital component of their fundamental role in the green energy transition, meeting investor and community expectations, and supplying critical minerals and energy fuels to the renewables, automobile, high-tech and other industries.  Promising pathways to reducing and ultimately eliminating the carbon footprint of projects or achieving net-zero objectives include:

• the emerging potential to source new energy from hydrogen and scalable modular nuclear technology;
• electrification of equipment and facilities;
• point source carbon capture and sequestration for minerals and gas processing;
• carbon diligence in relation to companies’ upstream supply chains; and
• contemporaneous and post-operations utilisation of disturbed lands for co-siting renewables facilities.