Environmental Impact Statements
  • Project managment of EIS process
  • Principal client and regulatory authority liasion
  • Preparation of EISs
  • Responses to public submissions on EIS
  • Management of all specialists
Environmental Approvals
  • Environmental authorities for resource projects and environmentally relevant activities
  • Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) approvals
  • Financial assurance calculations
Environmental Management
  • Environmental management plans
  • Rehabilitaion plans
  • Consultation plans
  • Environmental monitoring plans
  • Environmental constraints analysis
Project Management
  • Management of complex environmental, social and approvals aspects
  • Strategic advice on approvals' processes
  • Due diligence and risk management - approvals, environmental, social, tenement and land access constraints for projects
  • Primary point of contact for client, regulators and specialist consultants
  • Client focussed
  • Schedule and resource management
  • Knowledge of all relevant disciplines including terrestrial ecology, aquatic ecology, stygofauna, marine ecology, coastal processes, biodiversity offsets, waste management, geology, soils, land use, geochemistry, acid mine drainage, surface water, groundwater, hydrogeology, hydrology, mine site water management, noise, air quality, visual amenity, hazards and risk, traffic and transport, social impacts, economic impacts and benefits, cultural heritage and native title.
  • Network of experienced and well respected specialists in various environmental and social disciplines
  • Advice on engineering basis of design and infrastructure location and design, including at conceptual, feasibility and implementaion stages
Tenement Advice and Approvals
On and off tenement approvals for mineral and petroleum resource projects including:
  • Mining Leases
  • Petroleum Leases
  • Exploration tenements
  • Infrastrcuture tenements
  • Overlapping tenement management
Development Approvals
Off tenement approvals under State legislation (e.g. Sustainable Planning Act 2009, Regional Interests Planning Act 2014, Water Act 2000)