Project Management and Environmental Compliance Assistance

Environmental regulations and programs are presently being drafted on a monthly basis. Compliance with these requirements is very important, however, it can consume human and capital resources that our clients would otherwise have devoted to improving the quality and efficiency of their primary lines of business. Enviro-Stewards services are designed to conserve our client's time and financial resources while keeping them informed and involved in the project.

Enviro-Stewards Capital Conservation Services:

• Our Resource Conservation studies are designed to reduce our client's overhead expenses by minimizing resource usage, maximizing product yields and minimizing waste material generation and disposal costs. They also reduce the size, complexity and cost of downstream treatment facilities;
  
• Our Conceptual Design studies are designed to efficiently identify effective, economical and reliable treatment facilities that minimize treatment and disposal costs.
  
• Our Decommissioning services are designed to recover the value of a firm's fixed assets (process equipment, rolling stock, land etc.) and use these funds to finance the dismantling, demolition and site remediation work. They also limit liabilities by appropriately addressing environmental concerns and maximize land resale potential by remediation the soil, soil vapors and groundwater to appropriate clean up criteria.
  

Enviro-Stewards Client Staff Time Conservation Services:

• Enviro-Stewards staff have the experience, judgement, and communication skills necessary to manage complex projects in our client's best interests and hence reduce our client project manager's workload. However, we also recognize that we do not know everything and hence the highest quality product can only be produced by incorporating the ideas and experience of our client's project manager, engineering staff, and operations and maintenance staff;
• Many new and existing environmental programs and regulations require a concerted effort of time and expertise. Enviro-Stewards staff can work independently or train and work alongside our client's staff to effectively address environmental liabilities. For example, Enviro-Stewards staff frequently train and lead a team of client's staff as they complete a water, waste or energy reduction, reuse and recycling study. This approach has the added benefits of collaboration of Enviro-Stewards resource conservation experience with client's manufacturing experience, training and empowering client's staff to improve these and other plant systems, generating annual overhead cost savings to finance other projects, and promoting teamwork, enthusiasm and commitment (buyin) to resource stewardship; and
  
• Many new regulations require a significant learning curve. Enviro-Stewards staff can offset this curve through our familiarity with applicable regulations and the standards development process. For example, the Drinking Water Protection Regulation Made Under the Ontario Water Resources Act, filed August 8, 2000 (in response to the recent Walkerton, Ontario drinking water tragedy) also refers to 5 other documents that have been drafted and/or amended in the last 2 months. As part of our sphere of expertise, Enviro-Stewards staff are in a position to review the applicable documents and participate in the regulation's public consultation process on behalf of our clients.