Environmental
Environmental Assessments
Planning, Mitigation, and Monitoring
Shaun Allain
Group Manager, Environmental Assessments & Approvals
Halifax, NS
Nicole Thomas
Group Manager, Environmental Assessments & Approvals
St. John’s, NL
Janel Prasad
Group Manager, Environmental Assessments & Approvals
Calgary, AB
As the leading full-service environmental assessment provider in Atlantic Canada, we complete desktop reviews and field surveys to evaluate the potential for a project to impact components of the environment. We have in-house expertise in air quality, geology, hydrogeology, wetlands, botany, lichens, fish, birds, bats, wildlife, modelling (e.g. sound, shadow flicker, visual simulations, habitat, air dispersion, surface water, groundwater), noise, radar and other remote technology, and public and Indigenous engagement. We have extensive experience completing environmental assessments for various developments, including onshore wind, solar farms, green hydrogen, transmission lines, transportation, mining, and quarry projects.
We continue to support projects as they move toward construction by completing the required provincial and federal permitting and any associated offsetting (e.g. fisheries, wetland, ecological). Our staff live and work in the areas where we complete the projects. We know the landscape, the regulators, and the communities.
Areas of Expertise
Wetland and watercourse delineation to support alterations, applications, and approvals.
Signal Gold – Goldboro Gold Project – Eastern Goldfields District, NS. Environmental assessment with regulatory approval received in August 2022.
Electrofishing to determine abundance, density, and species composition.
Winter animal tracking to reveal clues to species identification and habitat association.
Flora and fauna studies to determine the health of the ecosystem and species at risk.
Long-term wetland monitoring to comply with wetland alteration approval conditions.
Acoustic monitoring to record echolocation calls emitted by bats.
Turtle surveys to effectively protect species at risk and their habitat.