Environmental Assessments

SENES staff have unparalleled expertise in Environmental Assessment (EA) and have been at the forefront of EA in Canada since its inception as a process in 1973. SENES has been involved with EA work under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, and international EA requirements for the World Bank and regional development banks. SENES has been at the leading edge of EA coordination and preparation and often provides discipline specific studies related to air quality, noise and vibration, socio-economics, land use planning, human health risk, ecological risk, water resources and the natural environment as part of an EA.

Senior staff are called upon to provide interpretation of, advice on, and training in EA processes and regulations throughout Canada and around the world. We are also involved in capacity building and policy development for countries and development banks related to EA regulation and tools in the developing world.

SENES has coordinated and managed federal and provincial EA processes including panel reviews, comprehensive studies, screenings, individual EAs, environmental reviews and class EAs; established and worked with technical advisory committees and community liaison groups; reviewed technical documents and prepared various EA documents; organized and facilitated multi-stakeholder workshops; and designed and implemented multi-stakeholder engagement strategies in support of EA planning processes.