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Mexican Operations

  2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Facilities with ISO 14001 and/or OHSAS 18000-based management systems - - - 2 2
Generation capacity with ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001-based management systems (%) - - - 100 100
Management system audits 1 - - - 1 2
Compliance audits - - - 1 1
           
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Air emissions 2
Sulphur dioxide (tonnes) - - - 20 40
Sulphur dioxide emission intensity (kg/MWh) - - - 0.01 0.01
Nitrogen oxide (tonnes) - - - 500 1,000
Nitrogen oxide emission intensity (kg/MWh) - - - 0.31 0.31
Particulate matter (tonnes) - - - 500 1,000
Particulate matter emission intensity (kg/MWh) - - - 0.31 0.31
Mercury (kilograms) - - - 10 20
Mercury emission intensity (mg/MWh) - - - 0.01 0.01
           
Greenhouse gas emissions 3
Carbon dioxide (CO2E tonnes) - - - 608,120 1,225,850
Methane (CO2E tonnes) 4 - - - 1,000 2,010
Nitrous oxide (CO2E tonnes) - - - 5,250 10,610
CFC-11 (CO2E tonnes) - - - 0 0
Sulphur hexafluoride (CO2E tonnes) - - - 0 0
Gross emissions (CO2E tonnes) - - - 614,400 1,238,500
Emission reductions (CO2E tonnes) - - - 166,270 241,140
Net emissions (CO2E tonnes) 5 - - - 448,130 997,360
Gross emission intensity (kg CO2E/MWh) - - - 380 390
Net emission intensity (kg CO2E/MWh) 5       277 314
           
Land and materials management
Land used in mining activities (hectares) - - - - -
Land used by plants, offices and equipment (hectares) 6 - - - - -
Non-hazardous waste disposed (tonnes) 7 - - - - -
Hazardous waste disposed (tonnes) 8 - - - - -
Paper used (tonnes) - - - - -
Paper recycled (tonnes) - - - - -
           
Water 10
Total water intake (million m3) - - - 0.55 1.82
Total water discharge (million m3) - - - 0.44 0.39
Water consumption (million m3) 11 - - - 0.11 1.43
Water consumption intensity (m3/MWh) - - - 0.07 0.45
           
Regulatory performance 31
Stack regulatory contraventions - - - 0 0
General air regulatory contraventions - - - 0 0
Spills to land regulatory contraventions - - - 0 0
Spills to water regulatory contraventions - - - 0 0
Other regulatory contraventions 12 - - - 0 0
Administrative regulatory contraventions - - - 0 0
Environmental enforcement actions 13 - - - 0 0
           
PRODUCTION
Coal generation net capacity (MW) - - - 0 0
Natural gas generation net capacity (MW) - - - 511 761
Hydro generation net capacity (MW) - - - 0 0
Wind generation net capacity (MW) - - - 0 0
Total net capacity (MW) - - - 0 0
Coal net generation (MWh) - - - 0 0
Natural gas net generation (MWh) - - - 1,615,000 3,179,000
Hydro net generation (MWh) - - - 0 0
Wind net generation (MWh) - - - 0 0
Total net generation (MWh) - - - 1,615,000 3,179,000
Capital expenditures on environmental monitoring and pollution abatement ($ millions) 18 - - - 0.000 0.244
Operations and maintenance expenditures on environmental monitoring and pollution abatement ($ millions)19 - - - 0.129 1.068
           
SOCIAL PERFORMANCE
Health and safety
Health and safety enforcement actions 20 - - - 0 0
Full-time equivalent employees 21 6 15 97 117 75
EH&S full-time equivalent employees 22 - - - 0 0
Injuries to employees - - - 0 0
Employee injuries requiring absence from work - - - 0 0
Employee recordable injury frequency rate (injuries/200,000 hours) 23 - - - 0.00 0.00
Employee disabling injury frequency rate (injuries/200,000 hours) 24 - - - 0.00 0.00
Injuries to contractors - - 16 2 0
Contractor injuries requiring absence from work - - 7 0 0
Contractor recordable injury frequency rate (injuries/200,000 hours) 23 - - 1.28 0.17 0.00
Contractor disabling injury frequency rate (injuries/200,000 hours) 24 - - 0.56 0.00 0.00
Short-term disability rate (days/1,000 employees) 26 - - - - -
Long-term disability rate (cases/1,000 employees) 27 - - - - -
Reportable vehicle incidents 28 - - - - -
Health and safety training per employee (hours/employee) - - - - -
Environmental training per employee (hours/employee) - - - - -
           
Community relations
Community investments ($ millions) 29 - - - 0 3,000
Community investments per employee ($/employee) - - - 0 40
Company-initiated volunteer hours per employee - - 0.3 0.0 0.6

Please see discussion and notes section for explanation.