FROM COMMITMENT TO ACTION: PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT - SKEENA RESOURCES LTD

Schena and the Taltan Nation work together to create a landmark impact benefit agreement for the Eskay Creek Mine in British Columbia, Canada, setting a new standard for partnership and creating lasting benefits for the region. Skeena's mining operations take place on Taltan lands, in Taltans communities and directly affect Taltian people. It's absolutely critical that Skeena takes care of the environment surrounding the Askay Creek mine, because our culture, food, spiritual practices and ways of life depend on the local ecosystems. I am a member of the Taltan Nation, and I am proud of the work Skeena is doing today on the Askay Creek project with my nation. Our environmental approach is based on integrating traditional Taltam knowledge alongside Western science to care for the ecosystems and manage natural resources. We have learned so much about Taltans knowledge and experiences through hundreds of meetings we've held with the Toltan leaders, community members, and our Taltant workforce. The IBA includes strong environmental protections, it sets aside a substantial amount of funding each year for environmental oversight and includes an environmental oversight team with Taltan representatives helping ensure the project meets Taltans environmental standards. Skeena is working together with the Taltán central government to create a comprehensive plan to continuously monitor and manage potential environmental effects throughout the entire life of the project. protection is not something we plan to do in the future. It's already happening today. Our water treatment plant has already been constructed to ensure responsible water management. We also secured a 30-year agreement to supply Eskay Creek with clean, cost-effective electricity from a BC hydro grid. Skeena has also committed to provide significant financial assurance for land reclamation and closure long after the project ends. The Tultan Stewardship Program is boots on the ground, eyes and ears on the fields, a lot of traditional knowledge, shared experience with the team. They teach us a lot about culture, a a lot about wildlife, traditional plants. It's just a hugely important program. We work really closely out in the fields. Pre-disturbance planning is huge on this project, having them participate in that aspect, having the sign-off authority. A huge program within that is relocating, repurposing plants that would normally be sort of stripped as part of vegetation clearing. With that, willows for erosion and sediment control, we stake those out, we remove those, move them somewhere else that they're more useful and wouldn't be lost during that process. Same with blueberries, huckleberries, we move those quite a bit as well into more wildlife appropriate areas. My job here is with berries throughout the site and off, like doing field work. So like with water sampling, construction, monitoring. The very key points of being in Teletown, like the needs that I've seen and I've experienced with my childhood currently is being able to be on the land and understanding the perspectives of what a Taltan person has. One of the things that makes Skeena different in how we approach environmental stewardship, we work closely with the Taltam Nation and Taltal knowledge helps guide how we design and carry out our environmental programs. By working together, we protect water, we reduce our environmental footprint, conserve biodiversity, manage waste responsibly, and use renewable resources wherever it makes sense.