ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL BASELINE SURVEY & IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Industries, investors and regulators worldwide need reliable assessments of potential project impacts and effective mitigation plans that are developed by integrated teams of international and host-country experts.
Acorn International delivers Environmental and Social Baseline Studies, Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessments, and related services to help development projects worldwide proceed in a sustainable and efficient manner.
Our ESG Assurance™ includes modules for Environmental and Social Baseline Survey and Environmental and Social Impact Assessment.
Using these tools and our extensive experience, we work with our in-country partners to produce results that meet industry needs while providing important local knowledge unknown to international consultants.
Examples of our expertise in these service areas are described below:
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL BASELINE SURVEY
Our Baseline Survey experience includes:
- Environmental Baseline Surveys for Shipyard Facilities in Nigeria
- Social Baseline Survey of the remote areas of Palawan, Philippines; Sabah, Malaysia; Northern Kenya and Central Morocco
- Environmental Baseline Survey for an LNG plant site and surroundings in Trinidad and Tobago
- Environmental Baseline Survey design for an offshore, transnational pipeline in West Africa
- Environmental and Social Baseline Survey for a gas field development and processing facilities in remote northwestern Kazakhstan
- Environmental and Social Baseline Survey for field reactivation in Venezuela
- Environmental and Social Baseline Survey for major gas plant development in Nigeria
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
Our Environmental and Social Impact Assessment experience includes:
- Seismic and exploration drilling programs in Angola, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Philippines, Russia, and Trinidad and Tobago
- Drilling and production programs in Bolivia, Brazil, Cote d’Ivoire, Kazakhstan, Liberia, Nigeria, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
- Independent review of Social Impact Assessment and Stakeholder Engagement Program of the Panama Canal Expansion
- Strategic EIA and Environmental Hazard Identification Workshops for Eagle Ford Shale Gas Development Program in the US
- ESIA and Contamination Assessment for World Bank-Sponsored Power Plan Development in Liberia
- ESHIA for Development Projects at Molybdenum Mine, New Mexico
- SIA for Offshore Exploration and Port Development Program in Morocco
- Facilitation of Integrated Environmental, Health and Social Risk Assessments for an FPSO (USA), a produced gas management program (West Africa), a power plant (Thailand), Oil and Gas Production Facilities (USA), Mineral Mine (USA), and Offshore Gas Facilities (Venezuela and Trinidad)
- World Bank/IFC ESIA and Related Studies to obtain financing for an LNG plant in Trinidad and Tobago
