The City of Medicine Hat is committed to environmental sustainability. Part of their commitment includes an initiative to have all of their departments develop and align their environmental management system (EMS) to the international ISO 14001 standard.
The Town of Lashburn wanted to expand an existing community playground that was next to a historical building. During the expansion, an underground storage tank (UST) used for heating fuel was discovered. Hydrocarbons had been released into soil and groundwater, and potential vapour migration into the building was a concern. Lashburn wanted to ensure the p
Our pipeline client had commitments from oil producers to use their current and prospective pipelines to get Bakken crude oil to market. To achieve this goal, provincial and federal regulatory applications needed to be submitted, stakeholder concerns needed to be met, and an interprovincial pipeline needed to be built.
A mid-sized unconventional operator needed to withdraw water to support their hydraulic fracturing drilling program in northwest Alberta. The client hired Matrix to secure the necessary approvals and to come up with a broader drilling, testing, and licensing strategy for the area that would be approved by the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER).
In winter 2010, Athabasca Oil Corporation began the regulatory approval process for the Hangingstone in situ oil sands development. The initial phase was permitted and constructed from 2011 to 2014. Production began in early 2015. The approval process for expansion phases is nearing completion.
CALGARY, ALBERTAPROJECT SUMMARY AEP’s River Engineering and Technical Services Section identified various areas within their organization where they needed support to migrate both spatial and non-spatial data into consistent data models, as well as evaluate incoming...
PEACE REGION AND CENTRAL ALBERTAPROJECT SUMMARY Murphy Oil Corporation discovered a condensate release from one of its pipelines at three separate surface locations in April 2015. Our client needed to delineate and contain the spill. Monitoring of wildlife, surface...
NORTHERN ALBERTAPROJECT SUMMARY AltaLink needed to reclaim their decommissioned Judy Creek Substation located in northern Alberta and apply for a reclamation certificate. A typical substation reclamation project involves determining whether there is soil contamination...
ALBERTAPROJECT SUMMARY Signalta Resources required approvals from both Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP) and the Alberta Utilities Commission in order to construct a new natural gas-fired power co-generation facility providing electricity, heat and carbon dioxide...
ALBERTAPROJECT SUMMARY Elemental Energy developed a 15 MWac solar facility in Brooks, Alberta – the first utility-scale solar project in western Canada. During a pre-construction site visit, Elemental Energy personnel noticed what appeared to be a hawk nest near the...
