Turning disturbed sites into renewed opportunities
Vertex has extensive experience in developing, implementing, and monitoring reclamation programs across various industries, including oil and gas, oil sands, mining, and commercial real estate. With offices located throughout North America, including multiple locations in Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, our team offers reduced mobilization costs and a strong understanding of diverse geographic regions. With access to drilling equipment and light agricultural machinery, Vertex remains nimble and responsive to evolving site and client needs.
- Phase I Environmental Site Assessments
- Phase II Environmental Site Assessments
- Tier II evaluations and risk management
- Full remediation services as required
- Detailed Site Assessments for soils, vegetation, wildlife, and landscape
- Field expertise in forested areas, grasslands, oil sands regions, agricultural land, wetlands, and native prairie
- Third-party consultation with landowners and regulatory agencies
- Vegetation monitoring and weed management programs
- Reclamation Certificate applications for Alberta
- Certificate of Restoration applications for British Columbia
- Acknowledgment of Reclamation submissions for Saskatchewan
- Certificate of Abandonment submissions for Manitoba
- Representation at regulatory inquiries and hearings
Vertex delivers reclamation programs supported by a multidisciplinary team of professional environmental consultants, including agrologists, engineers, geologists, hydrogeologists, and biologists. We maintain a client-specific project tracking database that includes status, recommendations, and cost summaries to support efficient project delivery. Field offices across key operating areas provide cost-effective assessments and region-specific reclamation knowledge.
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Case Studies
Reclamation Certification Using Disturbance Recovery Models and Remote Sensing
Objective
Providing practical and economical solutions is one of Vertex’s commitments to our clients. Conventional reclamation assessment of oil sand exploration well/corehole programs requires field assessments of all associated well sites and access roads. These field assessments have a high cost and environmental impact and are often highly subjective. Vertex’s Research and Development, Operations and Remote Sensing teams worked collaboratively to develop a remote sensing approach combined with disturbance recovery models to overcome these limitations. The approach utilizes remote sensing data and ecological resiliency factors to rank the well sites and access roads, and only sites with reduced recovery/resiliency are field assessed. Between 2021 and 2022, Vertex used this approach for Imperial Oil and received a reclamation certificate for a 29-site oil sands exploration program.
Biophysical Impact & Wetland Assessment Reports
Objective
Retained by the client to complete a Biophysical Impact Assessment Report (BIA) for submission to the municipality as well as the completion of a Wetland Assessment and Impact Report (WAIR) for submission to Alberta Environment and Parks. The client is submitting a development permit for approximately 68 acres of land in a large western Canadian urban centre that will include residential (R-G, M-1, M-2), mixed-use (MU-1), and commercial (C-C1) areas.
Phase I and II ESA Commercial Development Program
Objective
Vertex was retained to complete a comprehensive Phase I and II ESA program on a former industrial property to be developed into a residential neighborhood. The property was 160 ac and contained multiple development areas intermingled with agricultural land use adjacent to a Central Alberta municipality.
