ACP FRANCE, l'association des consultants pétroliers - Association des Consultants Pétroliers

Since the SIM congress in Dijon (see CR Mine-Responsable-Ecologo-ACP-Energies), the ACP Energies Mines Group has continued to learn about the IRMA (Initiative Responsible Mining Assurance) standard, with its advantages but also its limitations for smaller mines that do not have the means (investment in time and budget) to subscribe to it. Our meetings in 2025 identified the need to work upstream of the mining cycle (before and during the feasibility study) with the involvement of local experts. For several years now, Quebec universities, in partnership with the Quebec Mining Exploration Association (AEMQ), have been disclosing an Ecologo-Exploration Mines standard for small and medium-sized mines, covering the entire mining chain as specified in the Feasibility Study. Several African countries have Geology universities/Earth Sciences institutes with teaching and research resources that could provide valuable input from local experts. Ecologo certification for mining exploration demonstrates to investors and stakeholders a commitment to environmental…

To halt the worsening climate crisis, what we urgently need to do today is to stop increasing the level of carbon in the atmosphere, and to organize our economic activities in such a way as to reduce it without delay. This is the content of the proposal made by ACP Energies to the Minister of the Economy and Finance as part of the consultation organized at the end of 2023 by the former Ministry of Energy Transition. In January 2025, this proposition becomes even more topical: the unabashed “drill, baby drill” doctrine of the new Trump administration will not be limited to the United States, and will undoubtedly have a knock-on effect in the rest of the Fossil Carbon Empire (Middle East, Africa, Latin America, China, India, Russia, Canada, Norway, etc.) We will therefore have to redouble our efforts to decarbonize the atmosphere if we want to limit the looming…