What We Offer

Our Environmental Planning and Permitting Team consults on a variety of capital projects. We promote compliance and corporate responsibility while delivering cost-effective and efficient solutions.

Whether it’s planning a new energy project or expanding an existing development, project approvals are achieved through careful assessment of site and route selection, evaluation of environmental impact, timely regulatory applications, and meaningful community, rights holder and stakeholder engagement.  We objectively evaluate project options and identify short and long-term approaches to meet your project goals by adapting our permitting efforts to your particular budgetary, regulatory, biological, and resource conditions.

Summit works with you to understand your project goals and ensure you have the permits and approvals you need to move your project from planning to construction to operations. Summit’s staff blends comprehensive local resource knowledge with positive regulatory relationships and a thorough understanding of the complexities of regulations at all levels of government to facilitate timely permit approvals and clearances. We believe in collaborating with you, regulatory agencies, and the community, to find innovative and effective solutions. Our Team is comprised of engineers and registered professionals in agrology, ecology, chemistry, biology and other environmental technologists allowing us to expertly manage our client’s diverse requirements.
 

Services Include

  • Initial environmental siting/routing support and regulatory consultation

  • Permitting, approvals and notifications under

    • Provincial legislation

    • Federal legislation

  • Route Reconnaissance, Assessment, Screening and Evaluation

  • Regulatory Permitting and Reporting

  • Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA)

  • Conservation and Reclamation Plans

  • Post-Construction Reclamation Assessments

  • EPEA Approval Applications, Compliance Monitoring and Renewals

  • Public Land Disposition Applications

  • Water Act Applications and Notifications

  • Environmental Protection Plans (EPP)

  • Private Land Checklists

  • Oil and Gas Project Proposals

  • Powerline Hazard Assessment Plans (PHAP)

  • Biophysical Surveys

  • Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat

  • Vegetation and Rare Plants

  • Fisheries and Aquatic Habitat

  • Wetland Classification and Delineation

  • Pre-Disturbance Assessments (PDA)

  • Baseline Soil, Groundwater and Vegetation Assessments

  • Geospatial Services

  • Indigenous Engagement and Consultation

  • Archeological & Paleontological

  • Regulatory pipeline and facility applications

  • Power plant and transmission line application support

  • Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment (Saskatchewan ENV) pipeline and facility applications[RS1] 

  • Crown land applications

  • Drilling waste management planning with respect to AER: Directive 050, Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources: GL99-01 and BC Oil and Gas Handbook Drilling Waste Management chapter.

 

 

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