Environmental Approvals and Compliance

Our Environmental Approvals and Compliance Capabilities

Our environment is protected by various legislation that dictates if any proposed action has the potential to have a negative impact on the environment, it must be assessed.

The proposed action will only be approved if it is deemed to be environmentally acceptable, by mitigating (minimising) and managing impacts as much as possible, remediates the environment from the effects of negative impacts and offsets any unavoidable impacts where required. 
In order to ensure that all potential environmental impacts are carried out, avoided, managed and offset as required by the law, regulatory authorities govern environmental approvals processes at all levels of government.

Companies undertaking actions that may result in environmental impacts, may not be specialists in characterising the receiving environment or defining and quantifying impacts. Specialist consultants can step-in to assist in determining ways in which companies can avoid, minimise and manage impacts, as well as remediate and offset those impacts.

FVC is an environmental consultancy, specialised in environmental assessments, environmental impact assessment (EIA), environmental approvals, environmental management, and environmental compliance for a range of projects, across a broad range of sectors.  Our team are specialists in ecological impact assessment for flora and fauna values and have capabilities in overall EIA, environmental approvals documentation and the compliance related aspects of environmental regulation, such as the preparation of management plans and environmental offsets. We are also specialists in all aspects of the management, protection and enhancement of biodiversity values.

Importantly, the FVC team are also intimately familiar with the environmental approvals processes and the frameworks for these provided by both State and Commonwealth regulators.  Additionally, members of our team have well-established and long running relationships with many senior officers in both State and Commonwealth environmental regulatory departments.

Consultants with a sound understanding of the environmental approvals processes ensure the best outcome for clients in terms of project definition, characterisation of the environment, impact assessment, approvals acquisition and compliance.

FVC draws on a team of highly experienced environmental specialists, to resource projects with the full spectrum of impact assessment, approvals and management needs.

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Environmental Assessments and Management Services Delivered

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Comprehensive environmental impact assessments

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Statutory approvals documentation, including:

  • State referrals
  • Commonwealth referrals
  • Native Vegetation Clearing Permit (NVCP) applications
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Environmental Review Documents (ERD), e.g. Public Environmental Review (PER)

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Environmental impact mitigation recommendations

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Environmental Management Plans and other documentation to meet commitments made and for compliance purposes

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Offset Strategies

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Rehabilitation and habitat restoration plans

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Local Biodiversity Strategies

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Regulatory, stakeholder and community consultation