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Community and Society

Local Community Impacts and Engagement

We believe proactive, ongoing dialogue and effective relationships with individuals and groups that may have a stake in Marathon projects or operations must be a core business activity.

Stakeholder engagement helps Marathon understand community concerns and mitigate potential risks such as project delays, reputation damage and operational disruption. Our goal is to engage stakeholders regularly to foster cooperation and alignment on critical business issues and concerns.

Through our engagement process, we learn about stakeholder needs and share our values and operational standards. Our challenge is to engage an increasing number of stakeholders with different needs and expectations in new and existing asset areas.

We continue to strengthen internal capabilities for stakeholder engagement with guidelines and supporting software tools. These improve data capture and consistency, knowledge management, decision-making and alignment on community projects across the enterprise.

Community Advisory Panels

To promote two-way communications with local stakeholders, each Marathon refinery maintains a Community Advisory Panel (CAP). Neighbors, educators, public health workers, law enforcement and fire officials, local leaders and other volunteer CAP members meet regularly with refinery representatives. The CAPs discuss refinery operations, safety and environmental performance, employment practices, community activities and other topics.

Our Catlettsburg refinery celebrated the 20th anniversary of its multi-company CAP in 2010. The group formed because of community concerns about environmental issues and now covers a wide range of subjects.