Empress Royalty Corp (TSX-V:EMPR, OTCQB:EMPYF) said it has appointed Allison Rippin Armstrong as ESG Advisor to the company's board.
"It gives me great pleasure to announce Allison's appointment as ESG Advisor to the board. She is a humanitarian and trailblazer with global ESG experience that will be invaluable to Empress," Alexandra Woodyer Sherron, CEO and president of Empress Royalty, said in a statement.
"As a royalty and streaming investment company, we have the opportunity to make a difference in both how we invest our capital and how we operate as a corporation. We look forward to enhancing our ESG policies and practices to ensure we are creating value for our shareholders, our mining company partners and the local communities in which we invest,'" she added.
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Allison is a mining professional with over 25 years of experience, focusing on environmental compliance, job creation for rural and indigenous communities as well as fostering a more inclusive workplace for women and minorities. She has been involved in the permitting of nine major projects in Canada and serves on the board of directors for various non-profit industry organizations including Tectonic, where she serves as chair of the Governance Committee.
Empress said it is committed to furthering the responsible development of mineral projects and the sustainable extraction of metals. It takes corporate governance seriously and has put in place various measures to ensure the company conducts its affairs at the highest standard. It conducts thorough investigations and evaluations of ESG risk factors related to mineral properties and operating partners before investing, the company said.
Empress is a new royalty and streaming creation company focused on providing investors with a diversified portfolio of gold and silver investments. Since listing in December 2020, Empress has built a portfolio of 17 precious metal investments and is actively investing in mining companies with development and production stage projects who require additional non-dilutive capital.
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