ENVIRONMENTAL
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Earth Systems has expertise in the environmental impact assessment
of proposed and existing operations in the resource development
and waste management fields. This expertise includes the management
and preparation of environmental impact assessments to meet regulatory
requirements for project permitting.
The approach of Earth Systems is to work closely with clients and
project engineers during the prefeasibility and feasibility stages
of project development to ensure that environmental considerations
are fully integrated into project design. The aim is to develop
management and mitigation measures that are technically and economically
feasible, and that minimise environmental impacts to a degree acceptable
to regulators, financiers, the community and other stakeholders.
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Sepon Project is located close to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Lao
PDR, in an area extensively bombed during the Vietnam War. This
hut has been constructed using discarded bomb casing as supports. |
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Services Provided:
Identifying
and scoping environmental issues.
Building
an impact assessment team of in-house and external consultants with
expertise specific to the nature of the project and its environmental
setting.
Developing,
costing and managing an impact assessment program.
Preparing
detailed briefs for environmental studies, including impact characterisation
studies and baseline investigations.
Critically
reviewing technical and environmental studies.
Liaising
closely with client, project engineers and, where required, regulators,
financiers, the community and other stakeholders.
Developing
appropriate environmental management and mitigation measures in conjunction
with the client and project engineers.
Preparing
an environmental impact assessment report that conforms to the requirements
of regulators and that integrates project design, environmental study
findings and proposed management and mitigation measures.
Third-party
review of environmental impact assessment reports.
Experience:
Earth Systems,
in partnership with NSR Environmental Consultants Pty Ltd, is currently
preparing an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for
the Sepon Project in Lao PDR. The proposed development will involve
open pit mining and processing of separate gold and copper deposits.
Earth Systems
personnel have experience in preparing environmental impact assessments
for mining, petroleum and waste management projects in arid, semi-arid
and tropical climates, in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia,
Lao PDR, Angola and Ghana.
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