THESIS GOLD INC.
This was a significant achievement driven by many leaders in many companies spanning many decades. Inspired by this, Stephen wants to apply the same approach to all aspects of environmental and social performance. What’ s more, he wants to do it in a way that has never been the norm. Most communities living near mining operations receive environmental monitoring data fairly infrequently, if at all. Water quality data, for instance, is something that communities ought to always know about.
If a stream which runs through both a mining site and a neighbourhood is in any way compromised by chemical runoff, people need to know about it.“ We should have a scoreboard that tells us daily – maybe by the hour or by the minute – how things are going,” he says.“ If we can see that data, why can’ t our partner communities that share the same environment?”
The resistance in the industry to sharing this kind of data openly tends to be framed around concern that communities will not understand it, or will react to it without proper context. Stephen rejects that framing.
“ People are smarter and more resilient than we give them credit for,” he says.“ If we share it with them, and prove to them that we’ re serious and that we execute and improve, we have an opportunity to drive the same kind of performance improvement that the industry delivered on health and safety while also building stronger, more trusting relationships with our host communities.”
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