Understand the impact.
Shape a better
project.
Environmental intelligence and social insight, brought into the decisions that define your project—from early feasibility to construction, operation and closure.
The right questions.
For your project.
Every development has a different environmental and social context. Explore the issues that help define a proportionate assessment scope.
Assess the subsurface.
Understand the surface impacts.
Connect geological and hydrogeological conditions with the environmental and social footprint of exploration, drilling and energy infrastructure.
- Groundwater pathways, abstraction and discharge
- Drilling fluids, wastes, emissions and noise
- Well integrity and legacy conditions, where relevant
- Induced seismicity screening where technically applicable
- Land access, nearby receptors and community safety
- Construction, operation and decommissioning impacts
Distinguish inherited conditions
from future impacts.
Establish a defensible baseline, examine process-related pressures and identify the controls needed across a facility’s lifecycle.
- Historical land use and potential contamination
- Air emissions, noise and sensitive receptors
- Water demand, wastewater and hazardous materials
- Waste handling and spill-prevention measures
- Worker conditions and community health and safety
- Cumulative pressures and closure planning
Follow the resource.
Assess the whole pathway.
Evaluate the implications of collection, treatment, recovery and final discharge or disposal, including impacts beyond the facility boundary.
- Influent characteristics and receiving environments
- Effluent quality and intended reuse requirements
- Sludge, residuals, odour and transport impacts
- Groundwater protection and accidental releases
- Public health, neighbours and service access
- Energy use, greenhouse gases and resource recovery
Read the landscape.
Listen to the people.
Consider how new development interacts with land, ecosystems, services and livelihoods throughout construction and operation.
- Land use, access and livelihood dependencies
- Biodiversity, habitat and ecosystem services
- Water availability, drainage and soil conditions
- Traffic, construction disturbance and public safety
- Vulnerable groups and cultural heritage
- Climate exposure and cumulative development pressures
These are indicative assessment themes. The final scope reflects the site, project design, applicable requirements and identified risks.
From baseline evidence
to decisions that hold up.
CRETA brings geoscience, environmental assessment and resource-system thinking together to examine how projects interact with their surroundings.
A transparent assessment.
An actionable management plan.
01Environmental baseline & field studies
Review historical conditions and existing information, then define targeted surveys, sampling and laboratory analysis with appropriate quality controls.
- Geology, soils, hydrogeology and water resources
- Air quality, noise, biodiversity and sensitive receptors
- Survey coverage, seasonality, data gaps and limitations
Typical outputs: baseline report, receptor maps, sampling records and quality-assured datasets.
03Impact assessment & alternatives
Identify impact pathways, assess significance and compare feasible alternatives, including the no-project scenario where relevant.
- Construction, operation, closure and accidental events
- Direct, indirect and cumulative impacts as applicable
- Mitigation hierarchy and residual-impact assessment
- Assumptions, uncertainty and assessment limitations
Typical outputs: EIA/ESIA report, alternatives assessment and non-technical summary.
04Management, monitoring & review
Translate commitments into measures that project teams can implement, monitor and update as conditions change.
- Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP)
- Responsibilities, timing, resources and indicators
- Monitoring methods, triggers and corrective actions
- Technical responses during authority or lender review
Typical outputs: ESMP, monitoring programme and commitments register.
A structured path.
A traceable outcome.
Explore the stages of an assessment. Engagement and design feedback continue throughout; the programme is tailored to the project.
Set the boundaries before the study.
Review the project, identify relevant requirements, map stakeholders and define the area of influence and priority issues.
A proportionate assessment scope, initial data-gap register and study programme, with review requirements identified.
Build a reliable picture of the site.
Combine desk review, field investigations and stakeholder input. Document methods, seasonal constraints and data quality.
A documented baseline that distinguishes existing conditions from potential project-related changes.
Test the impacts and the options.
Evaluate impact pathways and significance, compare alternatives and assess how mitigation changes residual impacts.
A transparent impact assessment with justified mitigation, design recommendations and remaining uncertainties.
Turn findings into commitments.
Prepare assessment documentation and define who implements each measure, when it applies and how performance is checked.
An EIA/ESIA package, ESMP, monitoring programme and non-technical summary appropriate to the agreed scope.
Support review and follow-through.
Address technical comments, track commitments and use monitoring findings to inform corrective actions and management updates.
Review responses and implementation records. Approval decisions remain with the relevant authorities or financiers.
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