We lowered our greenhouse gas emissions intensity by six per cent over the previous year by retiring the last unit of our Wabamun coal-fired plant and adding 694 megawatts (MW) of wind and hydro to our fleet through the purchase of Canadian Hydro Developers, Inc. (Canadian Hydro), and by increasing the performance of all our fossil fuel-based generation assets.

We were recognized for our dedication to environmental stewardship. For the fifth consecutive year, we were included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index – once again, the only Canadian company in the utilities sector. We were again named to the Jantzi list of Canada’s 50 most responsible corporations. We were named a Climate Disclosure Leader by the Carbon Disclosure Project. And for the ninth consecutive year, The Globe and Mail recognized us as one of the best-governed companies in Canada.

We achieved our best ever year of safety performance, realizing a combined injury frequency rate of 1.19. This now positions TransAlta amongst the global safety leaders.

We completed three new wind projects, all on time and on budget: Ardenville, Kent Hills 2 and Summerview 2. This added 189 MW of renewable energy to our capacity. Work continued on the construction of our Bone Creek project, a 19 MW hydro facility in British Columbia.

We advanced our world-leading Project Pioneer, a carbon capture and storage (CCS) partnership aimed at reducing the emissions created by coal-fired generation. The project was awarded $5 million in funding from the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute to support knowledge sharing.

We decommissioned our Wabamun plant on March 31st, 2010, and announced plans to transition our Centralia plant to natural gas and renewables.

We continued plans to mitigate our operations’ effects on wildlife, including studies on birds and bats surrounding wind farms, plans for the American Eel and Cutthroat Trout impacted by hydro operations, and the re-introduction of Walleye at Wabamun Lake

We reached our centennial anniversary, celebrating a bright future where we translate our century of experience into actions to power future generations.