We recognise that responsible environmental stewardship is critical to protecting the natural environment and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Group, our clients, and local communities.
2024 Highlights
Our Approach
Our Environmental Policy, Sustainability Policy and Climate Change Statement reflect our commitments to managing the risks and impacts of our activities, drawing on years of experience, international best practices, and collaboration with tier one mining clients.
We are dedicated to upholding the highest environmental management standards, focusing on avoiding negative impacts and, where avoidance is not possible, mitigating or minimising them through proven industry practices.
Our approach is aligned with ISO 14001, with annual, independent maintenance audits across all business entities, and we comply with all relevant legal and regulatory environmental requirements in the countries where we operate.
As a mining services provider working primarily on our client's sites under their permit conditions, much of our management approach is guided by their environmental management plans. We ensure compliance with both environmental standards and our clients’ specific policies and requirements, incorporating them into our management plans, which they regularly review through site inspections and audits.
Climate and Emissions Reduction
Climate change is both a global concern as well as a material issue for Capital.
Our operations are often located in more remote areas with limited access to grid electricity, meaning we often rely on our clients to provide electricity and diesel. Sourcing reliable renewable energy in these areas is challenging, and our carbon reduction efforts are closely linked to the development of sustainably powered equipment by OEM suppliers, other technological advancement and the availability of renewable energy options from governments and clients.
Environment PolicyWe remain committed to reducing our GHG emissions, acknowledging it will require us to work in collaboration with our clients, suppliers and partners to identify and pilot possible solutions to adopt lower and zero carbon emissions technology when it becomes available.
With more than 90% of our Scope 1 emissions resulting from our drilling and mobile fleet, we continue to focus on energy efficiency and decarbonisation opportunities through our eMining and fleet digitisation, replacement and automation programmes.
Our eMining Programme seeks to identify ways to reduce some of our most substantial emissions across our fleet, such as electrification, alternative fuels, energy efficiency and optimisation options to reduce fuel consumption including using automation and robotics.
Epiroc BE Rig partnership
We are partnering with Epiroc in their development of the first battery-electric surface drill rig as part of our strategy to reduce emissions from our drilling operations.
Our team have collaborated closely during its development, providing feedback on design and helping solve operational challenges, assisting accelerate its development.
The rig will be field tested at Capital’s Sukari operations in Egypt, where there is an existing D65 fleet and strong technical capability. It is also one of the few mining operations with a large on-site solar farm that will be important long-term to truly make the rig emissions free.
We are excited to be at the forefront of the transformation alongside Epiroc, bringing innovative electric drill rigs both to our fleet and to the broader market. Once the rig is running at Sukari, we’ll apply what we’ve learnt to future deployments. The goal isn’t just one electric rig – its about integrating battery-electric technology across our operations and to actively contribute to moving the industry forward.
Tony Woolfe - General Manager Assets, Maintenance and Supply Chain
At our Mwanza workshop in Tanzania, we have installed a 48.6 kWp solar system that will help offset our power consumption.
The solar system is anticipated to produce nearly 50% of power requirements at the site and will reduce the load pulled from the Tanzanian grid, as well as reducing our overall power costs.
Electric forklifts will also draw power from the system and replace diesel fuelled vehicles.