Environment

Your Environmental leadership partner, driving regulatory certainty.

Greater regulatory understanding and certainty are crucial to project success.

Greater regulatory understanding and certainty are crucial to project success reducing the overall impact of the project on the environment and on the surrounding communities. This is what project success looks like. At Canacre, we are the constructors of our recommendations, ensuring we are ready to guide you through the entire process, from the initial discussions on feasibility and scoping, to regulatory approval and beyond. It’s about implementing effective strategies that make the most sense for each individual project and taking special care and consideration when examining the environmental impacts of each decision. By reducing the environmental impacts of infrastructure projects, we can continue to build a brighter future for years to come.

Canacre consistently solves the most complex environmental challenges throughout the business cycle. Working closely with our clients and communities, we address challenges with new and innovative solutions that drive project value and overall success.

Canacre’s teams provide support for permitting and regulatory requirements, working independently to coordinate and obtain agreements, licenses, permits, and regulatory approvals throughout the infrastructure development process. Canacre’s senior environmental and land & right of way professionals provide regulatory leadership in development of successful application strategies to streamline your projects approval process.
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Canacre’s Permitting Team provides the guidance our clients need to make accurate decisions related to infrastructure design and engineering in support of permit and crossing acquisition and management. Our team focuses on all phases of the project, including early stage design, regulatory application submissions, and construction.
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We collaborate with project and local stakeholders to provide comprehensive environmental studies and delineations that achieve projects’ goals and comply with regulatory requirements. Canacre offers extensive studies, deployed to develop thorough environmental understanding while protecting local resources.
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Canacre is construction minded, we use this lens to help our partners identify and mitigate environmental obstacles that may result from implementing a project. From construction monitoring and site inspections to fully deployed environmental management plans, Canacre’s environmental compliance services enable our partners to meet project deadlines while adhering to the regulatory requirements.
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In support of siting, routing, and feasibility analyses, we assess potential impacts, and make recommendations for appropriate mitigation measures associated with our partners' projects. We take the time to understand each project—the surrounding community, existing conditions, and regulatory needs.
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Canacre’s Planning Team provides the guidance our clients need to make accurate decisions related to site selection, project management, infrastructure and development design, zoning and land use compliance, minor variances and severances, and site plan approval processes.
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Canacre’s Project Management team works directly with our partners and clients to understand objectives, and ensure deliverables and milestones are achieved on time and on budget. Our expertise in data management and project controls means that our team is routinely entrusted with the stewardship of our clients' most complex infrastructure, development, and mapping projects.
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Working collaboratively with Indigenous peoples in all stages of a project is a critical component of successful project execution. Canacre understands the importance of building relationships and trust with Indigenous peoples and working with Indigenous nations to identify their rights and interests and how these may be impacted by activities on the lands where they exercise their rights. We assist infrastructure developers and constructors in working collaboratively with Indigenous nations using a variety of approaches tailored to the distinct community. Additionally, Canacre works with Indigenous clients, supporting Indigenous nations with infrastructure development and navigating the associated regulatory process. Indigenous nations with infrastructure development and navigating the associated regulatory process.
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Consultation and community engagement are critical components of any successful development. Canacre understands the importance of building relationships within communities such that stakeholders provide honest feedback and tough issues are tackled head-on. We assist our clients in developing and executing a comprehensive approach to community outreach using a variety of mediums.
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Canacre’s GIS and Data Management Team provides a wide range of custom mapping, large-scale land analysis, site and route selection, and can identify specific features of interest. Our quality controlled custom mapping solutions are available in digital, hard copy, and web-based formats.
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Canacre provides project acquisition due diligence and assesses project risks and opportunities on behalf of our clients. We distill complex real estate, environmental and project development information into concise reporting that allows M&A professionals to make timely and confident decisions.
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Canacre’s Technical Services were built from our significant expertise in complex infrastructure development, environmental, and stakeholder engagement. These experiences pointed to common challenges that hindered the successful delivery of projects and caused impasses in communications between our client and community partners.
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Envision Services provides comprehensive infrastructure simulations that consistently and effectively achieve buy-in during consultation. Envision enables our clients to engage in meaningful public consultation and stakeholder engagement processes and accurately depicts project aesthetics to establish community expectations.. Our visual simulation services have allowed us to take something that has been historically exclusive and make it inclusively understood no matter who is reviewing the proposed initiative.
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