Denmark-based LM Wind Power announced today that it has signed the United Nations Global Compact.
LM Wind Power, the world's largest wind turbine blade, brakes and service supplier, is one of 8,000 businesses worldwide to join the UN Global Compact, the largest voluntary corporate sustainability initiative in the world.
LM Wind, which has a Grand Forks manufacturing facility, has produced more than 130,000 wind turbine blades throughout the last 30 years, which corresponds to approximately 43 Giga watts of installed wind power capacity. The company said it is already compliant in the business ethics and humanitarian requirements of the UN Global Compact, but it acknowledged that it still has room for improvement.
"We decided to ask ourselves some hard questions," Roland Sunden, LM Wind Power's CEO, said in a prepared statement. "We have a long track record of contributing to producing green energy but are we really green enough? The answer was no."
LM Wind said in a press release that it is examining all aspects of its worldwide operations to look for ways to improve safety, industrial hygiene, emissions, waste and environmental impacts.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced in December that it planned to fine LM Wind Power $92,000 following the death of a worker at the company's Grand Forks plant last July.
