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Environmental Services


Turnkey Integrated Sustainable Development Services
SGS provides environmental testing and related services throughout Canada. Our personnel are certified by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA). SGS provides the following services.

Analytical testing of a wide range of matrices

  • Sea, drinking, surface and ground water, sewage & wastewater
  • Oils, lubricants and petroleum products
  • Air and gaseous emissions including SO2, NO2, N2O, VOC, CO2 and CH4
  • Soil, sediments, sludge, tailings, vegetation, livestock and minerals
  • Hazardous, solid and municipal wastes
  • Occupational health materials

Specialized testing of toxic materials

  • Dioxins, furans & PCBs
  • Microbiology (including eco-toxicology & bacteriology)
  • Particulate identification, characterization and quantification

Field sampling and testing

  • Ambient & indoor air, stack emissions & burn tests
  • Water sampling, monitoring, assessments & modeling
  • Waste sampling & characterization
  • Mobile laboratory available for on-site emission testing

Tailings management and land rehabilitation

  • 25 years of hands-on experience in tailings operations, management of toxic solutions & sediments and rehabilitation
  • The SGS laboratory in Lakefield, Ontario is the only testing and research facility in Canada that has a fully permitted tailings pond for industrial waste.  Constantly used, maintained and upgraded for over 25 years, this serves our process and analytical laboratory waste disposal needs. In addition, it has provided us with a real platform for technical expertise development in the on-going sustainable operations in terms of health and safety, environmental monitoring, remediation and rehabilitation.

Site planning and management services

  • Land use planning
  • Environmental compliance audits, permitting and approvals
  • Vegetation and wetland research and management

Seedling planting and monitoring

  • Environmental baseline monitoring and impact programs
  • Bird and animal deterrent programs
  • Geotechnical testing

Climate change services

  • International Emissions trading verification
  • Greenhouse gas inventory development, monitoring and verification
  • Accumulative effects assessments

Data handling services

  • Data compilation and analysis
  • Dispersion modeling
  • Data management
  • Mapping and GIS expertise
  • Data hosting

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