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General
PLEL offers a complete range of services related to Environmental
Management and Impact Assessment. This includes the preparation
of Environmental Protection Plans (EPPs), Environmental
Management Programs (EMPs), Compliance Monitoring and Petroleum
Facility Management. We also conduct Impact Assessments
for projects subject to the various provincial Assessment
Acts and in accordance with the Canadian Environmental Assessment
Act (CEAA).
Environmental Compliance Monitoring
Our industrial clients include pulp and paper companies,
mines, hazardous waste facilities and other large industrial
facilities. These operations are subject to rigorous in-house
and regulatory standards. Our range of services related
to compliance monitoring includes industrial occupational
hygiene, industrial air quality, air emissions, surface
water quality, groundwater, and effluent discharge quality.
Our programs are designed to meet the requirements of various
Federal and Provincial regulations.
Our environmental monitoring programs address a wide range
of concerns including heavy metals. petroleum compounds,
volatile organics, PCBs, PAHs, airborne asbestos, microbiological
contaminants, heat stress and noise. We routinely install,
operate and maintain a variety of monitoring equipment including
Hivols, Dichot samplers, meteorological stations, SO2 stations,
Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalances (TEOMs), airborne
asbestos samplers, and noise monitors.
Our programs range from relatively short term, project-specific
undertakings to long term continuous compliance monitoring
for large industrial settings such as hazardous waste facilities
and mines. Our programs are designed to ensure compliance
with the regulations respecting Control of Biological or
Chemical Agents and other pertinent legislation such as
the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations. Air monitoring is
designed in accordance with Provincially or Federally-prescribed
methods or those set by the U.S. National Institute for
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Representative Projects:
» Project management
services during restoration of a school damaged by
by Hurricane Juan.
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» Air emissions and water
quality monitoring program for a northern metal mining
site.
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» Qualitative Risk Assessment
(QRA) and Site Management Plan for a commercial site
in Moncton, New Brunswick.
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» Environmental Assessment
and Remediation - Vehicle Maintenance Facility.
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» Environmental management
services: Environmental inspections.
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Environmental Protection and Management Plans
Many of our industrial, commercial or government clients require
Environmental Protection and/or Management Plans to address a
wide spectrum of issues on large projects. These can be as diverse
as the demolition of large structures to the construction of major
facilities. PLEL will develop plans to ensure environmental protection,
worker safety and impact mitigation. Our Plans are based on a
comprehensive understanding of all the issues that may be of concern
from an engineering, geoscience, hazardous materials or microbiological
perspective.
Petroleum Facility Management
PLEL provides a comprehensive service package related to petroleum
storage, handling and distribution. Our combination of engineering,
technical and geoscience expertise is particularly well-suited
to all of the issues related to Underground Storage Tanks (USTs).
We offer services in:
Compliance assessment and testing of the UST Cathodic testing and tank protection assessment and upgrades Product removal and disposal Tank removal and disposal Assessment of soil/groundwater contamination potentially
associated with the UST and determination of remediation options
and costs Site remediation (i.e. soil disposal, or in-situ remedial
system installation and operation) Regulatory liaison
For clients with extensive petroleum facilities at numerous locations,
we offer comprehensive management programs in which we will collect
all pertinent tank construction and installation details, identify
upgrade requirements to meet current Petroleum Storage Regulations,
provide cost estimates associated with upgrade requirements, and
prioritize upgrades based on degree of risk, severity of deviation,
and potential liability. We often develop client-specific computer
data management systems for such assignments.
Environmental Impact Assessments
PLEL environmental practitioners have managed environmental assessments
for large undertakings at both the Provincial and the Federal
level throughout Atlantic Canada. The undertakings have varied
from projects in the oil and gas sector to marine infrastructure,
airport redevelopments and commercial agricultural operations.
Between our in-house capacity and our sub-consultants, we address
all of the many issues involved in environmental assessment. These
include developing a detailed project description, identifying
Valued Environmental Components (VECs), investigating the biophysical
environment, evaluating socio-economic and cultural heritage issues,
assessing impacts, and developing mitigation measures. We will
develop Marine Habitat Compensation Plans, if needed, can assist
the client in navigating the permitting and approvals process.
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