Biodiversity
Some of our plants ale situated near protected areas. We mitigate our impact on those areas as we can carry out industrial activities in a responsible and environmentally-friendly manner.
Some of our plants ale situated near protected areas. We mitigate our impact on those areas as we can carry out industrial activities in a responsible and environmentally-friendly manner.
Grupa Azoty S.A. leases and manages 4.56 ha of land which is located within a Natura 2000 site in the Dunajec river catchment basin. The operations conducted in this area, which contains surface and underground water intake facilities as well as reservoirs feeding water to an underground municipal water intake point, pose no threat to biodiversity. Water withdrawal is governed by appropriate water-law permits.
Grupa Azoty S.A. leases and manages 4.56 ha of land which is located within a Natura 2000 site in the Dunajec river catchment basin. The operations conducted in this area, which contains surface and underground water intake facilities as well as reservoirs feeding water to an underground municipal water intake point, pose no threat to biodiversity. Water withdrawal is governed by appropriate water-law permits.
The land owned by Grupa Azoty Police has no significant natural value and is not subject to any national or EU nature protection measures. However, there are such protected areas in the vicinity of the company’s site: nature reserves (Białodrzew Kopicki, Olszanka, Uroczysko Święta and Świdwie) and Natura 2000 sites (Police Kanały, Zalew Szczeciński, Ostoja Wkrzańska, Ujście Odry and Zalew Szczeciński).
There are also two active landfills on the company’s premises: the iron sulfate landfill and the phosphogypsum landfill. The company has implemented and observes a strict process regime that minimises the landfills’ impact on the environment. In addition, at the phosphogypsum landfill it has used for years a globally unique reclamation technology. Since 1994, efforts have been made to introduce high growing vegetation at the landfill site. It is already covered with trees, including aspens, acacias, hybrid willows, birches and poplars, and has for a number of years been a habitat of numerous animal species, such as beech martens, otters, stoats, foxes, roe deer, boars and about 100 species of birds. Ornithologists from Szczecin University found that the area adjacent to the landfill site (storage reservoirs of the wastewater treatment plant) compares to the Świdwie reserve in terms of the number and diversity of bird species.
In the case of Grupa Azoty Kędzierzyn, there are no forms of nature protection or areas of valuable biodiversity in the immediate or near vicinity of its plants.
Grupa Azoty Puławy is located in an enclave surrounded by the ecological corridors of the Middle Vistula River Valley, Lower Wieprz River Valley and Vistula River Gorge of Lesser Poland. The company’s site, as well as its water and wastewater management facilities are located outside areas subject to nature protection. In the vicinity (within a radius of up to 15 km from the centre of the plant), Natura 2000 sites are located.
The companies identified no significant direct or indirect impacts on biodiversity.