KEGOC JSC considers environmental protection activities as an integral part of its daily work. Responsible attitude to the environment is a key principle of KEGOC’s Environmental Policy.
The environmental policy of KEGOC JSC is aimed at minimizing the negative impact on the environment, reducing the carbon footprint, increasing the level of environmental safety, responsibility for ensuring environmental protection during the development of the NPG of the Republic of Kazakhstan, energy conservation and rational use of natural and energy resources in the Company’s activities. The Environmental Policy applies to all employees of KEGOC JSC, as well as to suppliers, employees of contractors and organizations providing services at the Company’s facilities, on the terms specified in the concluded contracts. The management of KEGOC JSC assumes responsibility for the implementation of the obligations assumed in accordance with the Environmental Policy for continuous improvement and prevention of pollution, as well as compliance with applicable legislative and other requirements to which KEGOC JSC is related in terms of its environmental aspects. Each employee of the Company, as well as employees of contractors working in the interests of the Company, are familiar with the Environmental Policy of KEGOC JSC.
The Company has implemented and certified for compliance with the requirements of the international standard ISO 14001 ‘Environmental Management System’, which operates within the framework of the integrated management system of KEGOC JSC. The main purpose of its implementation and operation is the application of new management methods that make it possible to strengthen the impact on the environmental aspects of the Company’s production and economic activities.
In September 2023, public hearings were held on the feasibility study of the project ‘Unification of the energy system of Western Kazakhstan with the UPS of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Construction of electric grid facilities’. The hearings on the above-mentioned project were conducted based on the materials of the ‘Report on possible environmental impacts’ in full compliance with the requirements of the Environmental Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with the participation of local executive bodies, environmental departments, the public, representatives of interested state bodies of energy and housing and communal services in cities. Aktobe and Atyrau. In October 2023, KEGOC JSC received a positive conclusion to the ‘Report on possible Environmental impacts’.
