British Columbia – Vancouver – Vancouver
Corporation
www.rescan.com
British Columbia
Vancouver
Vancouver
Corporation
active
Rescan(TM) Environmental Services Ltd. (Rescan) is a multidisciplinary Canadian consulting firm with over 20 years of project experience spanning 45 countries worldwide. Rescan has established itself as a leader in the provision of innovative, cost effective environmental and engineering services for the resource industries around the world. Our services assist industries, institutions and governments in achieving sound environmental practices. While traditionally most of our work has focused on the mining sector, we offer an extensive project portfolio covering a diverse list of resource industries. We have successfully completed numerous environmental projects involving diverse environmental baseline studies, management planning, oceanographic studies and audits and assessments.
The services we offer are aimed at assisting companies in achieving two primary goals: ensuring development is carried out in an environmentally sound manner and ensuring that companies receive the necessary environmental approvals to proceed with projects.
Rescan is a global provider of: environmental audits and impact assessments; environmental management; aquatic, oceanographic, fisheries, terrestrial and atmospheric biophysical studies; integrated coastal zone management; remedial investigations; due diligence evaluations; plant decommissioning, reclamation and closure planning; water and wastewater treatment; coastal and fluvial hydraulics, and physical and numerical modeling.
OUR EXPERIENCE
Visit us at www.rescan.com for a full list of the services that we provide.
The following categories summarize the services we provide: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Comprised of: archaeological and heritage resource evaluations, aquatic resources, climatology, meteorology, air quality, hydrogeology, land use analysis, water quality studies, socioeconomic assessment, soil and terrain studies, surface and groundwater hydrology, fisheries monitoring, water quality and hydrology monitoring, risk analysis and access route/site selection vegetation and wildlife assessment.
BIOPHYSICAL BASELINE STUDIES
Encompassing: aquatic habitat assessment, bathymetric/seismic survey, biological assessment, coastal infrastructure and hydraulic design, conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) profiling, dye tracer studies, ecological monitoring, effluent transport modeling, fisheries, vegetation and wildlife assessment, ocean current measurements, ocean circulation modeling, seawater corrosion and material wear characteristics, sea, lake and brash ice assessment, trace heavy metal sampling and analysis, tidal height and current measurement and prediction.
MINE WASTE MANAGEMENT
Comprised of: tailings dam and waste dump design, oceanography, tailings management, slurry pipeline engineering, acid rock drainage assessment and control, cyanide destruction, contaminant dispersion simulation, erosion control, mercury problem assessment, metallurgical effluent treatment, reclamation and re-vegetation of mine tailings, mine decommissioning, hazardous complex waste treatment, site investigations and remediation - Phase I,II,III, spill contingency planning, and surface runoff treatment.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Including: management of information systems, project and program reviews, policies and procedures, issue-specific programs, management organization, oversight and control, day-to-day compliance management, communications, planning procedures, risk assessment/risk management, emergency preparedness and regulatory tracking and influence.
INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT
Involving: communication with participants of the integrated management process; coastal biology and ecological processes; coastal physical oceanography, geochemistry; and water column chemistry; numerical modeling of effluent dispersion and sediment transport; protection and cataloguing of sensitive coastal areas including coral reefs, sea grass beds, mangrove and other wetland areas.
WATER AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT
Entailing: systems for water usage minimization, removal and recovery of heavy metals, sludge volume reduction systems, cyanide destruction systems, chromium removal/recycling, removal of sulphide and recycling of NaHS from de-hairing liquor, production of NaSH from spent tanning bath, removal of nitrogen by biological nitrification/denitrification, acid rock drainage treatment, High Density Sludge (HDS) systems and biosuphide treatment and heavy metal recovery.
OUR GLOBAL ASSIGNMENTS
Rescan has considerable Canadian and international business experience. We are currently active in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Labrador, U.S.A., Chile, Dominican Republic, New Caledonia, Indonesia and Argentina. We have worked in 45 countries around the world including Papua New Guinea, Australia, China, the Philippines, Norway, Fiji, Africa, Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico to name a few. Our larger clients include BHP Minerals Inc., Falconbridge, INCO, American Barrick, Placer Dome Inc., Homestake Mineral Development, Teck Corp., RTZ, Minera Escondida Ltda., Cambior Inc., Cominco Resources International, INMET Canada, Noranda Minerals Inc., Manalta Coal, Gulf Canada and ASARCO.
ALLIANCES/CONTACTS SOUGHT: Direct sales, joint ventures and strategic alliances.
Public and private sector institutions and corporations requiring environmental services.
Country of Ownership: Canada
Exporting: Yes
Primary Industry (NAICS): 541620 - Environmental Consulting Services
Primary Business Activity: Services
Services:
Environmental consulting
Products:
Transport of sediments to deep ocean floor via submarine pipeline systems., Design and installation of water treatment removal systems including bio-treatment., Design programs; manage and conduct data gathering and analysis; and prepare and defend reports and applications for permits and licenses.
Technology:
Our knowledgeable team of engineers has completed numerous
slurry pipeline projects. Rescan has well-developed expertise
in disciplines directly applicable to the siting, permitting,
design and installation of overland and underwater slurry
pipelines, outfalls and diffusers for domestic and industrial
wastes and cooling water intakes and outfalls.
• Slurry characterization (rheological and depositional)
• Design of overland and subsea slurry pipeline systems
• Transient analysis and dynamic modeling
• Selection of slurry pumps
• Troubleshooting of existing slurry pipeline operations
• Design of choke stations, drop boxes, and other energy
dissipation mechanisms
• Design of specialized pressure vessels and turbines for
power generation
• Specialization of valves, pipelines control systems and
instrumentation
• Preparation of specifications, bid evaluation,
procurement assistance and evaluation of all equipment items
• Supervision of pipeline installation
• Pipeline systems commissioning and operator training
Our oceanographic group specializes in characterizing physical,
chemical and biological aspects of the marine environment.
Conceptual and numerical models are then developed to provide
insight into potential impacts from project activities.
• Coastal and hydraulic design
• Coastal zone management (see below)
• Corrosion from seawater and material wear
characteristics
• Dispersion and circulation modeling
• Seabed morphological studies
• Sediment geochemistry
• Trace metal water sampling and analysis
• Water column physical characterization
• Water level ocean current measurements
Allan Tom
Pelletier Clem
Pelletier Pierre
Poling George
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