Environmental management

Origin Energy is conscious of the fragile environment in which we operate throughout Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Responsible environmental management is fundamental to Origin's approach to sustainable development. Our Health, Safety and Environment policy commits us to company-wide standards of environmental management that are appropriate to our business. Our policy is to understand and minimise our potential impact on the environment in all our activities. Our primary intention is to continually improve our environmental performance.

Each of our sites operates in accordance with company-wide health, safety and environment policies and standards. These policies and standards are implemented through site-specific programs, procedures and initiatives.

Our environmental impacts

We aim to comply with all environmental regulations and conditions attached to our approvals to operate, and promptly report any non-compliance to relevant authorities.

Our activities, through unplanned events such as accidental spills or discharges, have the potential to impact on the environment. Typical environmental impacts associated with oil and gas exploration and production and electricity generation include:

• Waste and emissions
• Produced water
• Land rehabilitation and remediation.

We encourage our people to report environmental impacts associated with our activities. To increase our understanding and improve our company-wide performance we maintain a register of all environmental incidents. Such incidents are classified from level one—lowest impact—through to level five—greatest impact.

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