About this report

This report describes our performance in 2009 and early 2010 across a full range of environmental, economic and social issues. It is intended for anyone interested in learning more about our corporate citizenship efforts.

Since 2000, we have produced a full-length print document each year to report our economic, environmental and social performance. This year we have chosen to publish the full report here on our website. We continue to provide a printed summary and data performance reports, which can be found in a pdf format on the navigation bar to the left. 

The report was produced using the American Petroleum Institute/International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (API/IPIECA) Oil and Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting (April 2005). Most of these indicators are consistent with indicators used by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in the G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.

To identify the economic, environmental and social challenges, opportunities and issues of greatest concern, we engage in ongoing dialogue with our stakeholders.  The feedback we receive influences our business planning, promotes a greater understanding of corporate citizenship issues internally, and helps to ensure that this report is useful to its readers.

We focus our corporate citizenship activities in six areas: corporate governance, safety, environmental performance, managing climate change risk, economic development, and community relations and engagement. Our report provides details in all these focus areas, as well as provides information on what we said in 2008, how we did in 2009, and what we plan to do in the future to balance economic growth, social development and environmental protection. Where available, we also provide data comparing five years of performance. Our stories illustrate some of the actions we have taken to support our corporate citizenship goals.

We value your feedback on this report and our performance in addressing financial, environmental and social issues. Please take the time to tell us what you think by filling out our feedback survey.

Comments can also be directed to:
Catherine Teasdale
Corporate Citizenship
Imperial Oil Limited
237 Fourth Avenue S.W.
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 3M9
E-mail: contact.imperial@esso.ca

Conventions used in this report

Most of this report focuses on activities in 2009. Where notable, we have added events from early 2010. Performance data are provided on all aspects of Imperial’s business that is both owned and operated. We do not include data on operations that are operated by others such as Syncrude. For information on Syncrude's performance, visit Syncrude Canada Ltd. Dollar figures are in Canadian currency, except where noted.