Environmental Services: Supporting DND’s environmental performance targets

Environmental Services enjoyed a busy 2007–08, a year characterized by growth in service demand and the refinement of the service line’s internal processes.

Environmental Services played a key role in supporting DND’s efforts to manage the risk of unexploded explosive ordinance on active and legacy sites across the country, among them Lac Saint-Pierre, Quebec. Through its contaminated sites practice area, the service line played a direct role in the on-site remediation process of sites such as 5 Wing Goose Bay in Newfoundland and Labrador. There were also a significant number of environmental assessments conducted on behalf of DND, and in accordance with the principles, standards and procedures established in federal legislation and DND policy requirements.

Internally, Environmental Services adjusted its accountability framework to better fit within the Corporation’s service-matrix system and, consequently, become more responsive to client needs. The service line has also identified a series of key elements—including practice area specialties, federal statutory requirements and core DCC principles—that will form the basis of a specific program of training and development in the coming years.

About Environmental Services

Environmental Services works with DND to meet environmental performance targets, comply with regulatory requirements and manage due diligence and risk. Some of the service line’s key activities include environmental impact and site assessments, site remediation and decommissioning, environmental support for project and program management, sustainable development strategy support, policy, compliance and advisory services, waste management auditing and planning, and environmental monitoring and compliance auditing.