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01/What problem do we address
From environmental impact review to the procedures a project needs
We support marine development surveys and impact assessment, test data generation and permitting.
Marine use · Impact assessmentSurveys, assessments and consultation support
Salinity-driven toxicity certification · Product approval supportProving salinity is the cause · Algae removal agent testing
Fisheries damage surveyDamage extent surveys and the basis for estimates
Ballast water certification supportType approval testing and documentation
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What we do
Procedure review · Baseline survey · Impact assessment
Sea Area Utilization Consultation & Impact Assessment
Reviewing the environmental impact of marine use and development projects and supporting the consultation procedure
- Port development site beyond a breakwater, with a survey vessel
- Scope of work
- From project review to surveys, assessment and consultation support
- Survey planning based on the project type and sea area characteristics, and environmental impact review
- Procedure and item review
- Reviewing the applicable procedure and the items to survey and assess, based on the project's nature, scale and location
- Baseline survey · Impact prediction
- Surveying the current marine environment and predicting the project's impacts
- Assessment report · Consultation support
- Drawing up mitigation measures and a follow-up management plan, and responding to consultation comments
- Scope by procedure
- Consultation and assessment documents tailored to the project
- (General) sea area utilization consultation
- Documents submitted
- Sea area utilization consultation report
- Main scope of review
- Physical oceanography, chemistry, topography, geology and sediment
- Planktonic and benthic ecosystems, fish and fishery resources
- Landscape and recreation, protected species and protected areas
- Tasks performed
- Compiling baseline data, reviewing impacts and preparing the consultation report
- Sea area utilization impact assessment
- Draft and final assessment reports
- Meteorology, marine environment and ecosystems
- Fish eggs and larvae, marine plants and intertidal fauna
- Industry and landscape, protected species and protected areas
- Predicting impacts, drawing up mitigation measures and handling public comments
- Marine environmental impact survey
- Notification of survey results
- Main scope of survey
- Seawater quality and seabed sediment
- Items covered by the marine environmental standards for each sea area
- Environmental change caused by the project
- Surveying environmental change, analysing results and compiling data
- Field survey and analysis
- Baseline surveys linking the marine environment and ecosystems
- Physical oceanography · Water quality survey
- Characterising the sea area and collecting seawater samples
- Sediment · Benthic environment survey
- Surveying the sedimentary environment and benthic communities
- Marine ecosystem survey · Analysis
- Analysing the status of planktonic and benthic organisms and fishery resources
- From survey results to consultation documents
- Project and sea area review
- Field survey
- Impact prediction · Mitigation review
- Assessment report · Consultation documents
- Consultation support linking survey data, prediction results and mitigation measures
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