Jacques Whitford offers effective life-of-project solutions to industries and governments that identify, develop, manage and protect natural resources. Our technical and scientific experts work with our clients to achieve strategic business objectives that meet all their environmental, business and risk management goals. Our experience and expertise identifies and limits potential delays to permits and approvals, provides integrated risk management approaches to reduce liabilities, and develops practical, innovative solutions to challenging constraints and obstacles.
We understand the environmental issues facing every aspect of the mining industry. We have substantial experience working with the issues associated with a range of mining sectors including base and precious metals, diamonds, coal, and oil sands in both surface and subsurface contexts.
Click here for a list of our expertise and services- Permitting and licensing of exploration programs
- Development of E3 Plans
- Environmental and socio-economic baseline studies, impact assessments and impact statements for mine permitting and waste management
- First Nations, Native American and Aboriginal relations and stakeholder consultation
- Site investigations, construction designs, inspections and permitting for tailings facilities, mine structures, landfills, ponds and pits
- Water supply investigation, development, conservation, protection and permitting
- Wastewater, waste rock and acid rock drainage management, treatment design and disposal permitting
- Air, land and water emissions permitting, monitoring, effects assessment and compliance reporting
- Integrated environmental health and safety management systems design, implementation and audits
- Pollution prevention and environmental protection plans
- Contaminated and abandoned mine sites assessment and remediation
- Environmental due diligence and compliance inspections/audits, including dam safety
- Human health & ecological risk assessments
- Mine and tailings facility closure and reclamation plans
Through decades of specialized focus, we have gained considerable insight into the unique issues and challenges faced by pulp and paper, forestry and associated businesses. We offer integrated teams and the ability to ensure that professionals with extensive industry experience are matched to every assignment.
Click here for a list of our expertise and services- Pollution prevention and environmental protection plans
- Air, land and water emissions permitting, monitoring, effects assessment & compliance reporting
- Environmental baseline studies, environmental impact assessments and statements for facilities and waste management permitting
- Environmental effects monitoring programs and protocols
- Site investigations, construction designs, inspections and permitting for structures, landfills, ponds and lagoons
- Water supply investigation, development, conservation/protection and permitting
- First Nations relations and stakeholder consultation
- Integrated Environmental Health & Safety management systems design, implementation & audits
- Environmental due diligence and compliance inspections/audits
- Environmental site assessment and remediation
- Human health and ecological risk assessments
- Environmental process engineering
Our staff of professional agrologists, agricultural engineers and other specialists apply their expertise to find creative, time and cost effective solutions for governments, producers, and agri-food businesses across Canada, in the United States, and in settings as diverse as China, Central America and Southeast Asia.
Click here for a list of our expertise and services- Agri-environmental assessments and monitoring
- Environmental risk assessment for farming operations and farm lenders
- Environmental management systems for agricultural industries
- Quantification and mitigation of greenhouse gasses from the Agri-Food sector
- Agricultural wastes management
- Agricultural monitoring associated with construction projects
- Soil surveys in a variety of eco-climes
- Nutrient management planning
- Nutrient and pesticide runoff/leaching studies
- Soil capability assessments
- Agricultural land use surveys
- Measuring and monitoring of soil carbon stocks
- Vegetation management plans
- Compensation plans for damage to agricultural lands
- Surveys of agricultural soils and formulation of soil management recommendations
- Environmental farm planning
- Agriculture industry consultations
- Soil organic matter simulation modeling
- HAACP programs
- Environmental assessment of agricultural undertakings and operations
With a number of offices located on both North American coasts, and in locales where fishing activity comprises a significant aspect of local economies, Jacques Whitford scientists work on a wide range of fisheries-related challenges. Often, our fisheries-related projects address the interaction and impacts of the various industrial and commercial activities that share our coastal and ocean resources, illuminated by our understanding of the sensitive relationship between habitat, ecological, fish and fisheries interactions.
Click here for a list of our expertise and services- Habitat assessments
- Environmental and socio-economic impact assessments
- Marine and freshwater biological surveys, including SCUBA diving surveys, underwater video and photography
- Marine geophysical surveys
- Marine and freshwater fish habitat/stock assessments
- Environmental effects and monitoring programs
- Fisheries compensation planning and processes
- Microbial testing and bio-assays
- Aquatic toxicology
- Aboriginal fisheries issues
- Remote sensing and modeling
- Aquaculture planning and assessments
- Public and stakeholder consultations
- Local and regional cost/benefit analyses and fisheries benefit plans
- Marine GIS mapping
- Noise and acoustic studies
- Environmental management plans
As businesses and communities plan for the future, the varied and multiple uses of our water resources becomes an increasingly important issue. At Jacques Whitford we help our clients by providing innovative and sustainable approaches while balancing the constraints of various environmental conditions.
We have broad international experience in this sector, having delivered solutions to clients across Canada and in the United States, the Caribbean, South America and Africa.
Click here for a list of our expertise and services- Water supply environmental impact assessment and permitting
- Groundwater supply exploration, aquifer assessment, development, management & protection programs and plans
- Wellhead inspection and protection plans
- Assessment of groundwater under direct influence of surface water (GUDI)
- Groundwater contamination susceptibility assessment, control and remediation management and protection plans
- Watershed management plans
- Water supply EMS development, implementation and audits
- Watercourse crossing and alteration impact assessment and permitting
- Engineered Wetlands