Environmental Planning and Assessment for Energy Projects and Linear Developments

  • Route selection for pipelines, powerlines, seismic programs, rail lines, fibre-optic lines and roads
  • Facility site selection for well sites, gas plants, compressor and pump stations, batteries, tank farms and other oil and gas facilities
  • Environmental protection planning and mitigation planning
  • Environmental support for operations and maintenance programs
  • Environmental inspection and monitoring
  • Siting for energy and transportation facilities and corridors
  • Permit applications
  • Code of Practice notifications and compliance
  • Contingency planning
  • Watercourse crossing construction and mitigation plans

Environmental Management Systems

  • Database Selection and Implementation
  • System Performance Review

Environmental Site Assessments / Audits / Risk Assessments

  • Sustainability audits
  • Compliance audits
  • Project impact evaluation
  • Environmental overviews
  • Post-construction monitoring
  • Phase I & Phase II assessments
  • Cumulative Effects Assessments
  • Environmental Sensitivity Studies

Reclamation Planning / Environmental Inspection / Monitoring

  • Reclamation coordination
  • Regulatory compliance audits
  • Soil remediation
  • Suspended sediment monitoring
  • Bioengineering
  • Habitat / land use restoration

Biological and Ecological Inventories / Monitoring and Research

  • Management of captive wildlife programs
  • Caribou Protection Plans
  • Baseline environmental studies
  • Population surveys and assessments
  • Species at risk surveys
  • Fisheries assessments
  • Biodiversity and conservation assessment
  • Terrestrial and aquatic research planning, implementation and evaluation
  • Water / soil sampling
  • Predisturbance biophysical assessments
  • Habitat assessment and planning
  • Species management plans

Emergency Response Planning

  • Oil spill contingency plans
  • Control point selection
  • Sediment and erosion contingency plans

Communications

  • Public Consultations
  • Workshop Facilitation
  • Document and Presentation Development
  • Web Site Development



Project Management

  • Project planning and environmental logistics
  • Recruiting and managing subcontractors

Regulatory Applications and Processes

  • Regulatory strategy and Policy review
  • Conservation and Reclamation applications
  • Environmental Assessments
  • NEB environmental and socio-economic impact assessments
  • Environmental Screening Reports for federally regulated projects
  • Expert testimony
  • Open house presentations
  • Compliance / Approvals / Audit Compliance reports
  • Environmental Field Reports (EFRs)
  • Area Operating Agreements
  • Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions approvals (USA)

Forestry and Plant Ecology

  • Rare plant & weed surveys
  • Vegetation mapping
  • Timber volume estimates

Archaeology

  • Heritage Resource Impact Assessments
  • Palaeontological Assessments
  • Traditional Land Use Studies
  • First Nations Consultation
  • Post-Impact Assessments

Environmental Training and Education

  • Training for pipeline environmental inspection / environmental monitoring
  • Program development: Environmental Manuals; Conservation Education; and Instructional Video

Land Use Planning

  • Community Consultation
  • Constraints Planning Maps
  • Environmental mediation support of environmental nongovernment organizations and landowner consultation

Geomatics / Mapping

  • Fully integrated in-house Geographic Information System (GIS) department for spatial analysis and mapping capabilities
  • Variety of presentation-quality map products including: Environmental Alignment Sheets; digital elevation; and vegetation community and wildlife habitat suitability models
  • Cartography
  • Spatial / analytical services
  • Remote sensing / satellite imagery interpretation