The hidden challenges of implementing environmental mitigation measures

The identification and implementation of mitigation is an essential part of the process of impact assessment and decision-making for projects. Often there are challenges in defining mitigation to be applied in future phases of a project, and there can be a disconnect between project teams involved in the approvals phase, and post-approvals phase of a project. 

Our Principal Assessment and Approvals, Phil Burns, and Environmental Project Manager, Kurt Speirs, discuss the common challenges with implementing project mitigations through examples, and consider how good practice in defining mitigation during the approvals phase may address these challenges.