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.