Environmental Assessment
DPRA provides services for the coordination and preparation of environmental assessments, as well as peer review across Canada and internationally. DPRA's professionals have extensive experience both managing and participating in multi-disciplinary project teams, and have worked in the context of provincial and federal environmental assessment frameworks.
DPRA provides the following services for environmental assessment:
- strategic advice on environmental assessment and planning
- peer review of planning processes and documentation
- preparation of environmental assessment documentation
- development of environmental information systems (including GIS and database services)
- project management
- design of evaluation frameworks and criteria
- development of impact management strategies
- review of documentation for regulatory compliance and consistency with tribunal precedents
- case management for hearings
- presentation of evidence before hearing boards and assistance to counsel with cross-examination
- preparation of interrogatories and evidence
- regulatory liaison
- stakeholder relations and consultation
- issues management
- socio-economic impact assessment
- cumulative effects assessment and management
- strategic advice to senior managers and executives regarding environmental issues
- Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto—Leslie Street Extension Environmental Assessment
- Department of Energy, Mines and Resources—Low-Level Radioactive Waste Siting Task Force
- Region of Durham—Biosolids Management Class Environmental Assessment Process
- North Shore Tribal Council—Timber Management Class Environmental Assessment