The Impacts Of BHP Billiton Company

Woolworths is the largest supermarket/grocery store chain in Australia, owned by Woolworths Limited. It is the largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand by market capitalization and sales. Along with Coles, Woolworths form a near duopoly of Australian supermarkets, together accounting for about 80% of the Australian market. Woolworths currently operates 933 Woolworths stores across Australia.

A documentary called "From the Ashes" speaks about the employees, and communities that are supported by coal mines. In the documentary the director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, Mary Anne Hitt, goes on to describe a "life and death struggle" when mine layoffs occur. This means that the employees will lose their pensions, healthcare, and basically their livelihood. It was believed that the increase of miner layoffs was due to environmental regulations, but that was proven incorrect by the US Energy and Information Administration. One of the leading causes is the increased use of natural gases, and a statistical analysis over a 6 year time period proves that when natural gas usage increases, then coal usage

A concern raised by a group of environmentalists over a threat to the Great Barrier Reef is carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that emit from the burning of coal. The federation government environment minister, Mr. Greg Hunt approved a 16.5 billion dollar project to Indian mining company so called Adani mining company. According to Queensland premier and the Adani mining company, claimed that the investment of coal mine extraction would create 10,000 jobs for local residents and inject 22 billion dollars for the Queensland state’s economy.

A controversial topic commonly debated among society is the construction of coal mines. Although they potentially contain great economic promise and access to more resources, they also harm the surrounding environment and increase carbon dioxide emissions.

The regulatory constraints on businesses from government have been subdued recent years. Fulfilling the function of the state, Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government proposed a new climate policy that the government will put off the existing levy on emitters and set up fund with as much as $2.6 billion to subsidize the mining enterprises in cutting green-house gas emissions (Anderson, Scott 2014). The subsidy released the financial burden of carbon tax which cost BHP $77.5 million in 2013 (Financial Review 2014) as an enabler in mining industry (Conrad 1993).

The mining process involves many big vehicles and other technology that release huge amounts of pollution into the atmosphere speeding up global warming and causing climate change.

he possibility of default, Debt Service Coverage Ratio plays a key role in evaluating the company’s liquidity and capacity to repay. In general, it is calculated by:

I decided to use the accounts of BHP Billiton and Telstra. Based on their annual reports in 2015, the approach they used to value their intangible and depreciating assets was the straight-line method. For the straight-line depreciation method, the value of an asset is depreciated evenly each year over the estimated useful life of the asset.

For example, the core theme of the video revolves around the Benefit-Cost Analysis for the eventual fate of Coal Mountain. The analysis within the video shows a great position for a number of environmental and regulatory issues that could be seen within energy production and particularly within the coal industry. The costs to the environment with its landscape facing permanent disfiguration and inability to be used from policies such as mountaintop removal is one such factor. On top of this the video illustrates toxic waste issues that are associated with coal mining that is similar to the issues that decommissioned nuclear reactors face as they are deposited in temporary or unsuitable storages facilities further leading to mass environmental issues within water and air. This cost also includes the health and social issues that directly affect the citizens within coal communities. In the video, there are numerous examples of health issues such as cancer and asthmatic symptoms that are caused by the coal dust and pollution that envelops areas with coal mining. To the people who live in these areas what are the benefits, if

Many Australian businesses are now outsourcing, or shifting their production or services offshore where there is cheap

If Appalachian Coal Mining decided to install additional capital equipment, they would decrease the amount of pollution that their company produces. This installation of additional capital

The companies that I found were BHP Billiton and Telstra. Based on their annual reports in 2015, the approach used by them to value their intangible and depreciating assets was the straight-line method. For the straight-line depreciation method, the value of an asset is depreciated evenly each year over the estimated useful life of the asset.

Appalachian Coal Mining believes that it can increase labor productivity and, there-fore, net revenue by reducing air pollution in its mines. It estimates that the marginal cost function for reducing pollution by installing additional capital equipment is

BHP Billion, a merging cooperation of BHP and Billion in 2010 (BHP Billiton, 2011), is a world leading company in mining and resource exploiting. According to ASX data, BHP Billion has the largest business scales in the Australian market, AU$166 billion of market capital and AU$71 billion of annual operating revenue in FY13 (Australian Securities Exchange, 2014). Over 128,800 employees and contractors work in 26 countries worldwide to create value for their shareholders (BHPB Annual Report, 2013). The core business has been classified into five units: petroleum, copper, iron ore, coal and aluminum, making 20%, 18%, 17%, 31% and 14% respectively in the revenue of FY13. It can be seen from Graph 1 that although iron ore was not the segment with the largest assets, it still returned with the largest revenue and highest ROA rate in 2013. The following paragraphs will focus on the strategy analysis on the segment of iron ore and how it can conquer possible threats

The mining industry has seen an explosive growth from the past few decades. It has played an important role in economic growth, infrastructure development and a raise in the living standard of the whole world. According to the Australian National Accounting System, the mining sector has made contributions of 9.8% GDP growth to the Australian economy between 2008 to 2009 (Australia Bureau of Statistics, 2012). However, the mining industry has caused many environmental issues such as adverse effect to air, land and water quality and continues to affect global environment as a whole. According to the World Health Organization, it evaluated that 25% of worldwide death are directly associated with environmental pollution (Blacksmith Institute, n.d). This essay will outline the environmental issue raised by the mining industry with pinpoint focus on the effects to air, water and land. It will also provide strategies for mining companies to improve the environmental conditions.