From Planning to Progress, We Help You Move Forward
Vertex provides Environmental Planning and Regulatory services that support effective project development while helping clients meet all required regulatory commitments. Our team of environmental professionals conducts assessments, prepares documentation, and builds mitigation strategies that reduce project risks and keep regulatory processes on track. These services are designed to help clients plan confidently, manage obligations efficiently, and maintain compliance throughout each phase of the project.
Our team uses proven field and analytical methods to identify environmental constraints early, manage potential impacts, and streamline approval pathways.
- Pre Site Assessments
- Environmental Impact and Pre Disturbance Assessments
- Municipal, Provincial and Federal Approvals
- Environmental Inspection and Monitoring Services
- Water Services
- Crossings, Approvals and Monitoring
- Wetland Assessment and Impact Mitigation
- Wildlife Services
- Rare Plant Services
- Aggregate Resource Work (Sand and Gravel)
- Oil Sands Planning and Approvals
- Environmental Assessment on First Nations Lands, IOGC
- Forestry Services
- Inventory Work, including Wildlife, Vegetation, Weeds and Soils
These services allow clients to identify project considerations early, reduce regulatory delays, and maintain alignment with environmental requirements from planning to execution.
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.
Integrated Land and Environmental Services – Pipeline Integrity Program
Objective
Vertex’s client engaged Vertex to provide engage with landowners and regulators to gain access to their pipeline right of way to execute an annual integrity dig program. The majority of the proposed integrity digs were located in densely populated areas or natural areas with nearby sensitive receptors.
