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Environmental Review
EnviroGulf Consulting (EGC) provides an environmental review service to clients who wish to have their environmental management and monitoring programs critically appraised for relevance, comprehensiveness and credibility.
The main aim of the environmental review process is to appraise the validity and appropriateness of work performed and, as such, may be taken as a form of quality control. The environmental review involves collating all available information from company environmental reports and data summaries in order to check whether specific environmental programs are scientifically valid and that their implementation has been appropriate and timely, and that the results obtained are accurate and precise.
During the environmental review process, the original objectives and scope of work are re-appraised and the results from executed environmental programs are reviewed for relevance. In particular, current data-gathering activities are critically appraised for relevancy as follows:
- number of sampling stations.
- frequency of sampling.
- methods of sampling.
- sample processing.
- analytical methods.
- data reduction and analysis.
- statistical evaluation of data.
- data presentation.
EGC can review current work plans for specific projects. A review of the work plan also requires a clear identification of the environmental commitments and expectations that may be contained in agreements between a client and the regulatory authorities. Compliance of a client's operations within the existing regulatory framework will be a first point of reference for assessing the adequacy of environmental management and control measures.
Consulting Services
EGC offers the following services:
- Review of licences and permits pertaining to environmental hazards.
- Determination of the current level of compliance with existing licences and permits.
- Identification of environmental hazards and assessment of their potential to cause significant environmental effects.
- Review of client's established procedures to manage and monitor hazards associated with day-to-day operations.
- Review of management of hazardous chemicals and reagents, their location, packaging, storage and vulnerability to accidental release and or misuse.
- Assessment of past environmental incidents and their resultant environmental effects.
- Assessment of environmental risks associated with off-specification (upset) conditions.
- Recommendations for eliminating potential hazards and changing management procedures.
- Preparation of technical reports on the above and on the basis of a site investigation carried during the course of an environmental audit.
Confidentiality
Finally, confidentiality is strictly enforced on all our clients' data and information volunteered to any members of our environmental review and audit team.
Relevant Experience
The following are examples of environmental reviews:
- Bell Bay Pulp Mill Project Panel Inquiry (2006 - 2007) - Independent peer reviewer and expert witness to Freehills (a commercial law firm) in preparing its case for the Resource Planning and Development (RPDC) Panel Inquiry into the Draft Integrated Impact Statement (Draft IIS) for the Bell Bay Pulp Mill Project, Tasmania (to Freehills for Gunns Limited).
- PNG Queensland Gas Pipeline Project (2006) - Critical review and edits of the Marine Survey Report on the Pipeline Route Alignment Options through the Warrior Reefs System in Torres Strait, Australia (to Enesar Consulting Pty Ltd for AGL Petronas Consortium).
- Offshore Oil Production Facilities Environmental Upgrade (2003-2004) - Review and assessment of current oily waste and wastewater discharges from offshore oil and gas production, Gas and Oil Separation Plant (GOSP) and tie-in platforms and determination of compliance with local and international effluent and receiving water quality standards (in association with ABB Lummus Global B.V. to Saudi Consulting and Design Office (SCADO) for Saudi Aramco, Oil Facilities Planning Division).
- Analysis of public submissions on the IFA process (1996) - Analysis of public submissions on the Interim Forest Assessment process in New South Wales and production of report (to Resources and Conservation Assessment Council, NSW).
- Horn Island Environmental Review (1993) - Assessment of trace metal concentration data for mangrove cockles (Polymedosa erosa) and marine sediments in relation to metal-contaminated runoff from a former gold mining site on Horn Island, Torres Strait (to Queensland Department of Minerals & Energy).
- Torres Strait Baseline Study (1993) - Technical review, statistical analyses and interpretation of baseline results from the Torres Strait Scientific Baseline Program (to Ok Tedi Mining Limited, Papua New Guinea).
- Sansu Gold Project (1992) - Stage I review report for an open-pit mining runoff study for the Sansu Project at Obuasi, Ghana (to Ashanti Goldfields Corporation).
- Northshore Noosa Project (1986) - Review of sewage effluent management options and assessment of potential water quality impacts on the Noosa River, Queensland (with NSR/Maunsell & Partners for Leisuremark Australia Pty. Ltd).
- Beaconsfield Gold Mine (Tasmania) - Environmental assessment of the toxicity of cyanidation tailing and tailing pond cyanogenic supernatant and prediction of potential environmental effects on the Tamar Estuary, Tasmania (with NSR for John Miedecke & Partners Pty. Ltd.).
- Bukit Young Goldmine (Malaysia) - Assessment of water and wastewater management, disposal and detoxification of cyanided gold mill and heap leach effluents from the Bukit Young Gold Mine, Sarawak, Malaysia (with NSR for Middle East Timber Company, Singapore).
- Various gold mines (Ghana) - Reconnaissance site visits and assessment of cyanide management at gold mines in Ghana; Obuasi Gold Mine, Tarkwa Gold Mine, Teberebie Gold Mine, Prestea Gold Mine, Bogosu Gold Mine (with NSR for Ghana Minerals Commission).
