jbl prospectus

COMPANY PROFILE

John Black, R.P.Bio. – Senior Aquatic Biologist – jblack@telus.net

JBL Environmental Services 60 - 9000 Ash Grove Crescent Burnaby, BC Phone: 604-874-1442 Cell: 778-840-1442

JBL Environmental Services

OVERVIEW

JBL Environmental Services

is a British Columbia based environmental consulting firm with extensive experience in aquatic and terrestrial resources baseline inventories, impact assessments, monitoring, compensation plan development and habitat enhancement projects.

JBL Environmental Services

OVERVIEW (cont’d)

JBL provides a wide range of environmental services and has

completed projects throughout British Columbia and in

central/south America. Our clients include federal, provincial

and municipal agencies, as well as the mining, forestry, hydro-

power, transportation and urban development sectors.

We have completed multi-disciplinary environmental projects,

providing prompt, professional, and high quality service to our

clients. Our goal is to be recognized as a trusted, long-term

partner, offering science-based, innovative and sustainable

solutions to our clients’ environmental needs.

JBL Environmental Services

SECTORS

We have experience in the following sectors:

Resource Development

– Mining, oil & gas, forestry

Linear Development

– Highways, bridges, forest service roads

Land Development

– Urban development, municipal infrastructure

Power Production

– Small hydro, transmission & distribution; and

Park Development

– Conservation areas.

JBL Environmental Services

SERVICES Aquatic and Terrestrial Resources

Impact Assessment

• Ecological baseline assessments to BC standards

• Evaluation of project effects and cumulative effects

• Design of mitigation and habitat compensation programs

• Design and implementation of fish and wildlife monitoring

plans

• Participation in regulatory working group meetings, panel

hearings and public presentations

• BCEAA and CEAA reporting and review

JBL Environmental Services

SERVICES Fish and Aquatic Habitat Assessment

• Permitting (e.g., Fisheries Act and Water Act)

• Fish population characterization and estimation

• Fish spawning surveys, migration surveys and life history

studies

• Stream classification

• Fish tissue trace metal sampling

• Riparian area regulation (RAR)

assessments

JBL Environmental Services

SERVICES Fish and Aquatic Habitat Assessment

(cont’d)

• Benthic macro-invertebrate and periphyton assessments

• Lake surveys, including limnological, zooplankton and phytoplankton assessments

• Lake bathymetry surveys

• Environmental monitoring for

construction projects

JBL Environmental Services

SERVICES Water Quality Monitoring Programs

• Water quality assessments and monitoring

• Installation and monitoring of pressure transducers

• Surface water sampling

• Flow surveys and monitoring

• Suspended sediment sampling

and sediment control plans

JBL Environmental Services

SERVICES Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat Assessment

• Wildlife habitat suitability assessments

• Aerial and ground-based wildlife inventory surveys for birds,

amphibians, reptiles and mammals

• Raptor nest surveys and relocation

programs

• Rare and endangered wildlife

species assessments

• Vegetation bio-inventory assessments

JBL Environmental Services

SERVICES Habitat Restoration and Enhancement

• Design and installation of spawning and rearing channels for salmonids

• Design and construction of fish passage structures

• Design and implementation of

planting programs and

effectiveness monitoring