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INDEPENDENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANCY | ||
ABN 62 713 622 437 |
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Independent Environmental Consultancy
EnviroGulf Consulting (see About Us) was formed as an independent environmental consultancy based on the Principal's local and international consulting experience over a period of 33 years (see Principal's CV). The Principal has also a cumulative total of 45 years experience in water pollution ecology including three years work experience at a gold/copper mine in Papua New Guinea.
EnviroGulf Consulting is committed to providing professional, cost-effective services that are tailored to meet the specific needs of clients.
General Services
Natural resource-based projects requiring environmental impact or risk assessments, evaluation of the behaviour, fate and ecotoxicological impacts of wastes and wastewaters in receiving water environments, water quality and biological impact assessment, underwater noise impact assessment environmental management and monitoring plans, peer reviews and environmental troubleshooting are the mainstream of the firm's consulting practice.
EnviroGulf Consulting integrates environmental planning with other aspects of project planning, development, and implementation leading to specific environmental approvals for clients' projects.
The Principal of EnviroGulf Consulting collaborates closely with other experienced specialist consultants on a project case-by-case basis. This reflects our combined approach of using personnel with significant senior experience in small teams to efficiently deliver projects and, as a consequence, maximise value to our clients and their projects. EnviroGulf Consulting's in-house expertise and use of specialist sub-consultants possess the full range of capabilities needed to prepare comprehensive and specific environmental studies.
The firm practices strict management controls in scheduling, critical path analysis, quality control and assurance, and costing in review of final environmental documents (the product).
Consulting Services
EnviroGulf Consulting offers the following services to clients:
- Environmental impact assessment - Preparation of EIA, EIS, EPBC Referrals, Preliminary Environmental and/or Inception Reports etc.
- Environmental review - Environmental management and monitoring planning, and peer reviews
- Environmental audit - assessments of existing environmental management and monitoring programs or systems.
- Environmental biology - water quality and aquatic biological sampling, planning and implementation.
- Environmental risk assessment - Preliminary risk assessments for EIS scoping and formal risk assessments for hazard identification, and dose-response and exposure assessments.
- Ecotoxicological assessments of the effects of construction or operational wastes and wastewaters entering aquatic environments.
- Underwater noise impact assessments of the effects of underwater acoustic damage and acoustic disturbance impacts to marine mammals, fish etc..
- Design, planning and implementation of environmental monitoring programs to measure the significant environmental effects of project wastes and wastewaters.
- Environmental assessment of the behaviour, fate and toxicity of potentially harmful substances entering aquatic environments:
- sediments
- cyanides
- arsenic
- mercury
- other metals
- chlorates and perchlorates
- chlorinated organic compounds and derivatives
- polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
- microbiological contaminants
Specialist Areas and Expertise
The Principal of EnviroGulf Consulting has expertise in the following areas:
- Expert Witness & Peer Reviewer.
- Marine impacts of offshore mining and oil & gas exploration and operations.
- Freshwater impacts of onshore mining and oil & gas exploration and operations.
- Freshwater, estuarine and marine biological impacts of mining wastes and wastewaters, including cyanides, arsenic, mercury and sediments.
- Marine biological impacts of ac and dc electromagnetic fields (see Electric Industry and offshore windfarms webpages)
- Aquatic ecotoxicological impacts of waterborne wastes and wastewaters.
- Marine biological impacts of 2D and 3D seismic surveying (see oil & gas webpage).
- Marine biological impacts of underwater noise (see oil & gas, mining & minerals and underwater noise webpages).
- Peer and critical reviews of draft and final environmental impact assessment documents (EIA, EIS, EA, EP etc) and environmental monitoring programs.
Please see the Principal's CV for additional specialist areas and expertise.
Project Experience
The Principal of EnviroGulf Consulting has carried out over 45 environmental consulting assignments in or reviewed environmental assessment reports from the following countries: Australia, Denmark, Fiji, Germany, Ghana, Iraq, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, New Caledonia, Norway, Papua New Guinea, The Netherlands, The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Example projects are listed below:
A total of 45 mining or mineral processing projects comprising:
- Twenty-two projects in Papua New Guinea.
- Twelve projects in Ghana.
- Five projects in Australia.
- One project each in Fiji, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, New Caledonia and The Philippines.
A total of 23 oil and gas industry projects comprising:
- Nine projects in Australia
- Eight projects on Papua New Gionea.
- Three projects in Iraq.
- One project each in Germany, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.
A total of three pulp or paper mill projects comprising:
- Two pulp mills in Australia (Tasmania).
- One paper mill in the United Kingdom.
A total of four marine salmonid aquaculture projects requiring underwater noise impact assessments:
- Four offshore marine farms in Australia (Tasmania).
Forestry and Forest Products Industry:
A total of seven forest management projects comprising:
- Seven projects (EIS or water quality aspects) in Australia - NSW (6) and ACT (1).
Underwater Noise Impact Projects:
A total of 14 underwater noise assessment projects comprising:
- Ten projects in Australia.
- Four projects on Papua New Guinea
Four electric industry or HVDC transmission projects comprising:
- High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission projects in Australia (2).
- Marine electromagnetic sounding impacts - UK (1).
- Marine AC Tone Generator impacts - UK (1).
Miscellaneous projects:
A total of six miscellaneous infrastructure projects comprising:
- Two port development projects in Papua New Guinea (2).
- One road construction development project in Papua New Guinea (1).
- Three legal / expert witness projects in Australia - TAS (1), QLD (1) and VIC (1).
Please see the Principal's CV for project details.
