Project profiles, Managed the engineering development, site deployment and on-site pilot plant operations of a clean technology process for the economic recovery of metals from acid mine drainage.

Mining Industry

  • Engineering: Managed the engineering development, site deployment and on-site pilot plant operations of a clean technology process for the economic recovery of metals from acid mine drainage.
  • Due Diligence: Lead due diligence assessments following NI 43-101 guidelines for mineral development projects in North and South America and Africa.
  • Risk Assessment: Conducted nationwide environmental risk assessment for surface and subsurface coal mining operations.
  • Permitting: Developed resource projections for surface lignite mining operations and prepared environmental permitting documents.

Power Generation:

  • Traditional Generation: Facility siting analyses, construction and operations permits at the federal and local levels, and legacy liability assessment for over 50 new construction and purchase and sale transactions for power projects fueled by coal, lignite and natural gas.
  • Nuclear Generation: Prepared Issue Resolution Reports addressing construction, engineering and work practice issues identified during pre-licensing reviews by inspectors for the NRC.
  • Renewable Power Projects: Conducted siting, capacity modeling, baseline studies and prepared environmental permits for Biomass, Wind and Geothermal Steam projects.
  • Distributed Generation Power: Developed permitting methodology to link stand-by diesel generators into system to provide peaking power for a major California city.

Other Private Sector

  • Aerospace Manufacturer: Conducted enterprise-wide environmental information management needs assessment and systems evaluation in accordance with EPA Consent Order.
  • Heavy and Light Manufacturing: Conducted numerous due diligence, remediation, compliance, chemical management, risk identification and EH&S benchmark assessments.
  • Refining, Petrochemical and Chemical: Completed over 500 separate projects involving compliance strategy, permitting, auditing, compliance resolution, and purchase and sale liability assessments.
  • Biotech: Conducted detailed regulatory enforcement non-compliance recovery strategy.
  • Retail Manufacturing: Developed regulatory, EH&S operational risk assessment and corporate officer-level risk ranking methodology as a pilot study for a global retail manufacturing company on the risks associated with international outsourcing for product manufacture and distribution.
  • Consumer Product Distribution: Conducted root cause analysis and developed training and labeling requirements for shipping of hazardous cargo after unintended shipment by air of explosives and flammables discovered by FAA.

Public Sector

  • Higher Education: Conducted environmental risk assessment of campus and hospital operations for one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.
  • Public Education: Developed risk assessment methodology to evaluate development of new schools on abandoned property owned by the district.
  • Top-10 US City: Conducted city-wide identification and evaluation of environmental risks and exposures. Detailed evaluation of water services division include evaluation of insurance programs to test coverage for hypothetical events and potential consequences.
  • County: Conducted county-wide assessment of environmental risks, exposures and liabilities for counties and multi-county risk-pools in California, Idaho and Utah.