As demonstrated by our Corporate Responsibility Annual Report for 2006, Voisey’s Bay Nickel Company (VBNC) is a caring and conscientious operator, a responsible corporate citizen and a dependable steward of our natural and social environment.

At VBNC, we believe that it is not enough to say that you care about healthy communities, employee safety and environmental protection, gender diversity and advancement of Aboriginal workers.

At VBNC, we walk the talk.

We are training our Aboriginal work force and empowering them to rise as quickly as possible into supervisory and management roles. We have dispatched research teams into Aboriginal communities to document whatever impacts – positive and negative – our operations are having on personal, community and family life.

We are reviewing and overhauling safety programs and procedures in response to a moderate but, to us, unacceptable accident rate at the Mine and Concentrator site. Environmental incidents at the site have decreased by 60 per cent over 2005, but we have taken steps to further enhance our environmental monitoring and protection systems. We will continue to strive toward our goal of zero safety and environmental incidents.

We are already studying the labour market in the Long Harbour region and the province at large, as we prepare to meet local hiring and gender diversity targets in recruiting for the Commercial Nickel Processing Plant.

Right from the earliest days of environmental assessment up to the present, the VBNC development has had a history of consultation, collaboration and cooperation.

Simply put, VBNC will never settle for half measures when it comes to meeting its commitments to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador.

These commitments will continue, undiminished, as we transition toward a fully integrated nickel mining and processing operation in Newfoundland and Labrador.