Onion Lake Blend & Condensate Pipeline Project

Project Summary

X-Terra Environmental were commissioned by LBX Pipeline Ltd. (LBX), a wholly owned subsidiary of Husky Oil Operations Limited, in 2018 to conduct environmental assessments to construct a pipeline Alberta border within the Onion Lake Indian Reserve, SK, and to complete the reporting for an Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment (ESA) and an Environmental Protection Plan (EPP) to submit to the National Energy Board (NEB), and the Environmental Review Form (EFR) to submit to Indian Oil and Gas Canada (IOGC).

Our Role

X-Terra is an Indigenous-owned environmental and engineering service company specializing in environmental assessment, permitting, regulatory compliance monitoring and remediation. We have served the oil and gas, mining, utility and government sectors since 1997. Our multidisciplinary team is primarily located in our main offices in Saskatoon and Lloydminster. This allows us to provide local and personal project planning, management, technical and field services to our clients throughout western Canada. This work has allowed for assessment of changes in biophysical characteristics over time, contributes to an adaptive management framework for assessing and mitigating project associated impacts, and allows for the real-time implementation of mitigation measures due to year-round monitoring.

Services Provided

• Rare plant surveys

• Vegetation inventories

• Soil assessments

• Wetland assessments

• Snow track surveys

• Auditory and visual amphibian surveys

• Breeding bird point count surveys

• Raptor habitat and nest surveys

• Western grebe surveys

• Short-eared owl surveys

• Common nighthawk surveys

• GIS and mapping services

• Environmental Alignment sheets

• Data analysis and interpretation

• Impact analysis and mitigation planning

• Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment reporting

• Supplementary Information Request reporting

• Environmental Protection Plan reporting