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What We Do

  • Provide a unique, robust approach to NEPA compliance for mineral and energy projects. We facilitate environmentally, fiscally, and socially responsible development and operation throughout the project life cycle.
    • Results are fully compliant with requirements of:
      • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
      • Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA)
      • Equivalent statutes in other countries
      • Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)
      • Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX)
      • National Instrument (NI) 43-101
      • International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001 and 14001
    • Completely quantified and thoroughly documented.
  • Provide and support scalable, highly secure, multi-user permit compliance management systems that eliminate the time-consuming tedium of checking for compliance and reporting dates. Each installation has the specific requirements of the client company and appropriate regulatory agencies.
  • Technical expertise, insights, and advice on watersheds and the rivers that drain them.
  • Assist businesses and governments to quantify sustainability based on values and beliefs by applying our proprietary procedure compatible with local societal, economic, and political systems.

Our Mineral/Energy Property Suitability Advisor℠ compares various properties using criteria for suitability and risk unique to each investment/development company. For more information look at this page.


Σikos℠ (pronounced EYE-kos) is our proprietary implementation for Vastly Improved Permitting℠.

  • The VIP process succeeds by quantifying inherent subjectivity in environmental impact assessments.
  • The process provides regulators with an objective basis for their decisions.
  • This modern approach helps bring new or expanded projects into revenue producing status more quickly and cost effectively than is common.
  • Results are technically sound and legally defensible.
  • Σikos℠ demonstrates your environmentally responsible development and operations reflecting societal values, laws, and regulations.
  • Gain your social license to operate by demonstrating your corporate social responsibility.

More information on Σikos℠ is on this page. To explore the cost savings possible with Quantified Environmental Permitting, try our permitting cost calculator.


PermitWatch℠ Permit Compliance Management System

  • Hosted off-site and highly secure. Protects your data.
  • Increases staff productivity by tracking permit monitoring, renewal, and other regulatory compliance conditions.
  • Bi-weekly e-mail messages to responsible staff reminds them of upcoming deadlines and other issues needing attention.
  • Numeric data analyzed, reports prepared, and sent to regulators upon your approval.
  • Monitoring data approaching -- or exceeding -- threshold levels automatically brought to attention of managers via email alerts.
  • Permit renewals quicker and easier to prepare.
  • Customized to the needs of each individual client company.
  • Multi-project companies have information reported for individual sites or aggregated into a single report.

Details of PermitWatch℠ can be read here.


AssayWatch

  • Secure, hosted service.
  • Assures transparency in presentation of a mine's potential value to current and potential investors.
  • Records all changes made to data in the system: what was changed, who changed it, when the change was made, and why it was made.
  • Having history available provides complete transparency and assures current and potential investors they have a sound and honest basis for investing in the company.

Details of AssayWatch℠ can be read here.