Avalon Rare Metals Highlights the Importance of Sustainability

Avalon Rare Metals (TSX:AVL) has released its third annual sustainability report. Furthermore, the company has filed its consolidated financial statements, MD&A and other information with Canadian and US security regulators.

As quoted in the press release:

The 2014 Sustainability Report has been prepared within the framework of the Global Reporting Initiative (“GRI”) Version 4, core level. It reports on Avalon’s annual health and safety, environmental, social and governance performance. The 2014 Sustainability Report incorporates a self-assessment of the Company’s 2014 fiscal year sustainability performance and sets targets for 2015 against the Mining Association of Canada’s ‘Toward Sustainable Mining’ indicators. It also tracks both short and long term sustainability goals set by Avalon management.

Avalon Rare Metals president and CEO, Don Bubar, said:

Avalon is integrating sustainability into all aspects of its business. Reporting on our sustainability successes and challenges keeps our stakeholders informed and ourselves accountable. We believe that there is significant potential for creating additional shareholder value through exceptional sustainability performance and we remain committed to doing our part to advocate for improved sustainability performance across the entire natural resource extraction sector.

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