Mining company approaches to environmental approvals regulation: a survey of senior environment managers in Canadian firms

Mining companies can have differing reactions to the imposition of environmental approvals regulation. Reactions range on a continuum from "inactive", through to "interactive". This article reports on a survey of senior environment managers;in Toronto-based mining companies, making up 80% of mining sector market capitalization on the Toronto Stock Exchange. This exploratory research indicates that 70% of interviewed executives perceive their companies to have either a proactive or an interactive approach to environmental approvals regulation. There appear to be five possible determinants of these reactions: organizational learning; types of regulation; influence of stakeholders; jurisdictional culture; and corporate culture. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.