The Boréalis Blog

In May this year, I attended the International Finance Corporation (IFC) 10th Sustainability Exchange. Among other subjects of interest, the question of Social Measurement was brought up. I have noticed that in the past two years, Social Performance Reporting has been gaining in popularity beyond the mining and metals industry, in which it has already been discussed for many years. In many companies, there seems to be an increasing enthusiasm in integrating social metrics at […]

Working with clients both on-site and remotely over the past 10 years has taught me many lessons, and I must say one of the most valuable ones to this day is that planning, as exhausting (or even overrated!) it may seem, can make the difference between a project’s success or failure. Especially when your project has several impacts – good and/or bad – on communities. That’s exactly why stakeholder engagement activities must be planned. And […]

The Boréalis team is excited to share our recent partnership with Malaysian service provider Petroschiff. ASEAN countries are currently experiencing important economic development, especially in the IT, Energy, Oil & Gas, Engineering, and Mining industries. What’s interesting in Malaysia’s context is the country’s current effort for a diversification of its economy to ensure it does not depend as much on revenues linked to Oil & Gas activities. Petroschiff’s activities include but are not limited to […]

Dashboards offer a visually compelling way to analyze data and provide a comprehensive overview of complex information. We’ve been working hard to make sure our users get the most out of their data and that’s why our Analytics tool has been evolving quite rapidly over the past year. Here are some of the latest improvements to the Boréalis Application. Enhance your dashboards with new Maps widget Our mapping tool is very popular among our users, […]

I recently attended the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada in Toronto and after sharing a few conversations with colleagues who are working in Africa, I was unpleasantly surprised to learn that corruption was on the rise. Of course, corruption has been and still is a threat to economic development in many countries. I guess my disappointment lies more into its recent increase in countries where our clients operate. When Corruption Gets in the Way […]

January 1, 2016 marked the day new legislative and regulatory provisions entered into force in Quebec, thus modifying the Mining Act with the addition of 7 new provisions for mining companies to respect. In order to better understand what these changes mean for both mining companies and communities, let’s explore the concept of social acceptance, which is closely tied to corporate social responsibility (CSR). So, what’s social acceptance, anyway? Although to this day there are […]