Sustainability
Indigenous Strategy
Indigenous Business Associations Memberships
Rangeland is very much committed to building successful engagement and relationships with Indigenous people, businesses and communities.
Our first steps are memberships with Indigenous business associations to get the connections and knowledge to advance sustainable relationships between Indigenous businesses and our engineering projects.
We have recently joined the following associations:
- Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB)
- Northeastern Alberta Aboriginal Business Association (NAABA)
Blanket Exercise
We had the opportunity to participate in a blanket exercise, an interactive program teaching the history of Indigenous peoples in Canada. It was created in response to the 1996 report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and is used as a teaching tool across Canada through a story telling, role playing approach.
Indigenous Student Engagement Program
Rangeland Engineering is partnering with others to recognize the need for greater Indigenous awareness and inclusion in the communities in which we live and work.
Volunteers from our company have expressed strong interest in teaming up with Indigenous students to share their professional skills and provide career guidance, encouragement, and support.
Rangeland will be working with the University of Calgary to introduce an online program for Indigenous students who are interested in collaborating with our teams.
Our Carbon Footprint
We understand that climate change is both a challenge and an opportunity for all of us to find ways to do things better. We are determined to play our part – not just in the way we execute services to our clients, but also in the way we conduct our own operations.
With this in mind, we voluntarily prepared a comprehensive baseline greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory in 2020, following international best practice guidance from the GHG Protocol. Quantifying eighteen different emission sources across Scopes 1, 2 and 3 – from building heating to commuting, from our consumption of water to our production of waste – our 2019 emissions were just over 640 tonnes CO2e. Our internal Green Room Committee of committed Rangelanders is now hard at work developing and implementing emission reduction initiatives. You can read the full GHG report here.
