Transportation Support

SENES has a wide variety of experience in transportation projects. These have involved undertaking environmental assessments, transportation route selection, air quality analyses, and noise impact analyses. Complementing this experience is our ability to assess baseline environmental conditions and project impacts for a wide variety of facilities and environmental conditions. Our most experienced staff are frequently called upon to co-ordinate the activities of other team participants, edit documents, provide advice to legal counsel, and facilitate meeting and consultative activities.

SENES has extensive experience in the automotive sector, ranging from audits of process and facilities, through Certificates of Approval and Certification, to decommissioning and conceptual design for control equipment and its optimum location. SENES provides services in air quality, control of hazardous materials and wastes, odour and noise, training, industrial hygiene, wastewater and environmental management.

SENES in Vancouver has specialized in understanding port marine and land-side activities, and has been involved with local port-related inventories and emissions. Much of our current work in marine emission assessment makes use of the report Review of Methods Used in Calculating Marine Vessel Emissions Inventories (2004), which was produced for Environment Canada as a guidance document for future assessment. This work has served as the standard for subsequent Canadian marine inventories and best-practices guidelines. SENES has also conducted several recent marine emissions studies in California waters and for large marine terminals planning an expansion of current operations. The commercial marine work conducted by SENES has secured for us a considerable reputation for leadership in the understanding and communication of issues surrounding marine air emissions. This experience extends from assessment of energy demand and stack emissions from individual vessels, to assessment of vessel fleet emissions over an extended period and dispersion modelling of common air contaminant emissions near inhabited communities.

Transportation of Dangerous Goods / Risk

A risk assessment to human and environmental receptors relative to the transport of acids by tanker truck on a specific route was completed. The assessment included an analysis of accident statistics, route information and chemical characteristics of the transported acids.