BOREALIS

BOREALIS ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE SOFTWARE SUITEBorealis proposes innovative solutions to measure and minimize the negative impacts of a product, process or service on the environment, the economy and society.

In particular, Borealis offers technological solutions that ensure integration and management of data and business processes, which allows clients to manage their environmental/carbon footprint and their environmental performance.

Environmental Monitoring

Manage field data collection activities and track environmental samples and data.

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Compliance management

Allows companies to register and monitor their social and environmental performance to help them manage their commitments

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Biodiversity

Offers companies practical support in order to help them comply with the commitments defined in their biodiversity strategy.

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Land Rehabilitation Closure Site

Supports companies as they implement their Land Rehabilitation and Closure Plan activities.

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Carbon and Energy Management

Designed to satisfy regulatory requirements.

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Performance Reporting Solutions

Enables the organization and presentation of required information in real time, including detailed performance summaries of operational activities.

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GIS InteractiveMapping Solutions

Acquisition, integration, and centralization of GIS data and interactive mapping.

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Borealis EnvironmentalMonitoring Solution

Module

The ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING module provides tools to companies in the mining and oil and gas industries enabling them to manage field data collection activities and track environmental samples and data against measurement parameters and indicators such as water quality, water consumption, wastes, land use, air quality, noise and vibration, energy consumption, visual impacts, and land rehabilitation.

The module optimizes processes at the operational level through automated data capture, but also allows manual data entry when required. Data can be compiled and analyzed during all the project phases: feasibility, assessment, development, production and closure.

KEY BENEFITS

Establishment of a credible baseline for Environmental Impact Assessment studies

Process optimization at the operational level Identification of potentially damaging impacts on local communities Anticipate expectations and preoccupations of local communities Improve decision-making to reduce project-related environmental impacts Flexible approach for sample collection and tracking of physical measurements. Define and manage thresholds (environmental commitments) established in the

Environmental Impact Assessment.

What is Environmental Monitoring?

Environmental monitoring describes the processes and activities that need to take place to characterize and monitor the quality of the environment. Environmental monitoring is used in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Assessment as well as during the entire project lifecycle.

Why is it important to address those issues?

Environmental monitoring is necessary to establish a credible baseline for Environmental Impact Assessment. This baseline represents the starting point to compare objectively actual project impacts with predicted impacts. Therefore, monitoring is essential to assess the evolution of environmental impacts and provides solid elements to support decision making in environmental damage mitigation. Furthermore, monitoring fosters rapid intervention to prevent penalties related to regulatory non-compliance, identify areas for continuous improvement, and analyze overall environmental changes that occur over the life of a project.

The three components of the Borealis Environmental Monitoring Solution:

Environmental sampling and data managementThis is used to register all the environmental monitoring stations for a given project. It includes locations where water is collected, meteorological stations, stations for air quality, etc.

All of the samples collected by the environment department can be measured and managed with this tool. A sample is defined only by a monitoring station, a sample type and a date/hour.

Each sample includes one or various measurements for different measure types.

  Categories Parameters

  Weather Weather stations

  Water Surface and groundwater, Stations, Hydrometry, Water Quality, etc.

  WasteHazardous products, Recyclable, non-hazardous and non-recyclable products, Mining and Petroleum waste, etc.

  Biodiversity Forest resources, mammals, reptiles, ornithology, flora, etc.

  Air Dust, Volatile Organic Compounds (/VOC)Land disturbance, Greenhouse Gases (GHG)

  Energy Consumption Electricity, Fuel Consumption

  Depending on the type of project activities Noises, Vibrations, Decibel measurement

Data Importer

This import tool allows importing large amount of data from the monitoring stations. Data are imported in relation to predefined constraints allowing a quality control at the very first step of the process.

Environmental standards and thresholds This component is used to create and manage all the different environmental standards that the company has to respect and report to various entities (government, stakeholders, etc.).

For each standard, we can specify all the thresholds that should be respected for various measurement types (e.g. pH should be over 3 and under 11).

For a given kind of data (e.g. water), the system can assign and register different types of measures to it (volume, arsenic concentration, pH, etc.)

Awareness and Alerts This section stores all the alerts created when an approved measurement does not respect at least one threshold.

Users can be instantly notified by e-mail or SMS in real time when an alert is triggered. Those alerts can be linked in the Environmental Compliance Module.

Reports

A variety of reports related to the environmental monitoring module are available depending on the required information:

Informative reports (data quantity by type, subject, location, etc.) Performance reports (according to the criteria predetermined by the company

itself or by external entities).