Founded in 2001, Athene Environmental Limited is an independent Canadian environmental consulting company specializing in environmental protection and management. Athene provides a wide range of environmental services to industry, federal, provincial and municipal governments, and non-government conservation organizations throughout western Canada from offices in Calgary and High River, Alberta. With more than 35 years of professional experience in the oil and gas industry, environmental sciences, and heritage resources, Athene’s two principals, assisted by staff and associates, offer clients knowledgeable, reliable and cost-effective solutions to environmental problems. Athene has developed strong affiliations with environmental, health and safety, and archaeological firms, and provides clients with a strong interdisciplinary team possessing a wide array of training and expertise. Athene is regularly required to address federal (e.g. Canadian Environmental Assessment Act) and provincial (e.g., Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, Public Lands Act, Wildlife Act) legislation and regulation on behalf of clients in a variety of sectors including energy, pipelines, tourism, transportation, agriculture, water management, transportation, First Nations, and the military.

Athene has provided services to clients in the following areas:

• Biophysical baseline surveys and monitoring (soils, vegetation, hydrology, fisheries and vegetation)

• Environmental compliance monitoring and inspection

• Environmental audits and site assessments

• Environmental Assessments required under federal (e.g, Canadian Environment Assessment Act) and provincial (e.g. Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, Saskatchewan Environmental Assessment Act)

• Issue Scoping

• Mitigation Planning

• Cumulative Effects Assessment

• Toxicological and Environmental Health Assessments

• Wildlife population and habitat modeling (Habitat Suitability Index, Stella, Resource Selection Function, and Minimum Viable Population Models)

• Instream Flow Needs Studies

• Pipeline water crossing assessments

• Endangered Species Conservation and Management, including the preparation of status reports and management plans

• Caribou Management Plans

• Wildlife conservation, habitat, natural areas and biodiversity planning and management

• Environmental legislation and policy review and development;

• Literature reviews and preparation of annotated bibliographies and synthesis reports;

• Preparation of Conservation and Reclamation Plans

• Environmental Permitting (e.g., Site Information Reports, Environmental Field Reports, Environmental Protection Plans, As-built Reports, Project Proposals)

• Geomatics

• First Nations consultation

• Archaeological investigations

• Environmental Management Systems (e.g., ISO 14000)

• Development of Corporate Environmental Policy

• Environmental Project Management

• Environmental Training, including the preparation of training manuals.