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Environmental Assessments
Environmental assessments provide technical and scientific data to support regulatory applications and compliance activities. Boreal provides professional data collection, advisement, and technical reports to support the planning, operations and reclamation of your project
Environmental assessment services include:
- Phase I & Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESA)
- Pre-Disturbance Assessments – (PDA)
- Ecosite Classification and Analysis
- Detailed Site Assessments (DSA)
- Vegetation and Soil Surveys
- Timber Salvage Assessments
Wetland Assessments
The enactment of the Alberta Wetland Policy has created additional requirements for projects to satisfy Water Act obligations. Boreal's multidisciplinary team of Agrologist, Biologists and Foresters apply competent knowledge and services as it relates to Wetland Policy compliance.
Wetland assessment services include:
- Water Act (Wetland Policy) Applications - AEP Wetlands & AER OneStop
- Wetland Mapping and Delineation
- Wetland Classification
- Alberta Wetland Rapid Evaluation Tool-Actual & Desktop (ABWRET-A & ABWRET-D)
- Permanence Assessments
- Wetland Assessment and Impact Report (WAIR) & Wetland Assessment and Impact Form (WAIF)
Construction / Operations Support
Whether you require comprehensive field support, or specific focused operational assistance for regulatory compliance, Boreal has the professional and technical staff to supply your needs.
Construction / operations support services includes:
- Environmental compliance and audit inspections
- Environmental risk assessments
- Weed management prescriptions & monitoring
- Erosion, re-contouring and bank stabilization prescriptions
- Environmental monitoring programs
- Educational programs and workshops for environmental compliance
- Surface water monitoring & water withdrawal tracking
Reclamation
Boreal can help you achieve your reclamation goals, objectives and targets through to completion by assessing your reclamation and remediation liability for regulatory compliance. We inspect thousands of well sites, access roads, borrow pits and other activities every season. Our system improves your project management efficiency by synchronizing with digital and analytical software. This allows accelerated planning and inspection, keeping your project site data organized for analysis. The end result is reduced costs and the ability to obtain a reclamation certification sooner.
Boreal Land manages all aspects of your reclamation projects, from planning and construction supervision, to monitoring and final reclamation certificate application.
- All regulatory submissions to the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) and Alberta Environment & Parks (AEP)
- Tracking reclamation inspections, providing remedial treatments, and treating efficacy in support of reclamation certificate applications
- Conservation, Operation and Reclamation Plans (CORP/CRP)
- Carrying out site treatments and monitoring strategies to achieve compliance with reclamation standards
- Preparing spatial depictions of regulatory constraints to aid in project planning and execution
- Reclamation Certificate Applications