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Environmental Planning & Indigenous Economic Inclusion Services

Supporting complex projects and Indigenous inclusion and economic reconciliation through planning, advisory, and relationship-driven expertise.

Advisory Services Across Complex Project Environments

Our project experience spans a broad range of sectors including mining and metallurgy, nuclear energy, hydroelectricity, renewable energy, electricity transmission, roads and highways. We have worked with many Indigenous communities across Canada and on projects around the world.

Indigenous Economic Inclusion and Reconciliation Strategies and Planning

  • Indigenous procurement strategies
  • Indigenous training and employment strategies
  • Reconciliation Action Plans
  • Corporate Indigenous relations policy
  • Monitor policy compliance

Certified independent Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) Facilitator for the Canadian Council for Indigenous Businesses

  • Review corporate readiness
  • Work with corporate PAIR Working Group
  • Assist with PAIR submissions
  • Cultural awareness training
  • Prepare for and coordinate compliance audit

Community Preparedness for Development Projects

  • Develop community objectives and strategy
  • Maximize training, employment and procurement prior to negotiating a participation agreement
  • Community engagement
  • Engagement with project developers

EA Project Management

  • Build a team of experts
  • Budget and schedule preparation and management
  • Regulator interaction
  • Technical review
  • Community Engagement 
  • Document preparation

Community Engagement

  • Organize your message
  • Logistics
  • Records
  • Summary of issues and actions

Partnership Agreements

  • Facilitate negotiation
  • Agreement drafting
  • Coordinate with legal experts

Recent Experience

  • Hydro One Networks Inc. -- Indigenous Relations and Environmental Assessment and permitting advisory services for three proposed strategic high capacity transmission lines
  • ONXpress Transportation Partners(Metrolinx electrified GO Expansion Project) – Developed an Indigenous Inclusion and Employment Plan
  • AtkinsRéalis Group Inc. -- Advisory services on Indigenous engagement, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Interests impact assessment and social impact assessment for two proposed all-season roads into the Ring of Fire mineralized zone in Northwestern Ontario
  • Greenstone Economic Development Commission(in Northwester Ontario) – Development of an economic development strategy following development of the Greenstone Hard Rock Gold Mine 
  • Fort Albany First Nation – Engagement Plan and permitting strategy for their Flood Protection Review
  • Evolution Mining (Treaty #3 area of Northwestern Ontario) – Audit of the company’s exposure to treaty rights and interests
  • Alto (Via Rail) High Speed Rail Project – Indigenous employment and training strategy
  • Investors Group (IGM) – Indigenous Employment Equity Plan
  • Indigenous Services Canada – Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Strategy
  • Scotiabank – Indigenous Employment Equity Systems Review
  • BDC -- Indigenous Employment Equity Plan
  • Farm Credit Canada (FCC) – Indigenous Employment Equity Plan
  • Newmont Corporation Musselwhite Mine -- Indigenous Employment Systems Review and Plan
  • Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) -- Identified barriers and solutions to Indigenous participation in Natural Resources Canada’s Policy Analyst Recruitment and Development Program (PARDP)
  • Crown Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) – Designed an Independent Centre (and processes) to administer Indigenous specific claims

Get Ready to Discuss Your Objectives

If you’re looking to increase Indigenous inclusion in your organization and/or planning a project that requires thoughtful Indigenous engagement and environmental assessment we’re here to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.

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