Environmental Support Services for Indigenous Communities
At Intrinsik, we understand that many Indigenous communities are encountering a complex array of environmental issues. With Canada’s evolving regulations, resource development applications are now often multifaceted and typically examine health through a holistic lens.
How Intrinsik can help
Intrinsik provides Indigenous communities with technical expertise and clear risk communication to support informed decisions about environmental issues. Intrinsik’s experience in engagement, technical reviews, risk communication, human health and ecological risk assessments, and health impact assessments enable us to appropriately support your Indigenous community throughout the impact assessment process for resource development projects or during the operational project life of industrial projects in your Territory.
Intrinsik’s services for Indigenous communities
- Technical and peer review of impact assessment applications
- Stakeholder consultation and engagement
- Risk communication
- Review of environmental monitoring and management plans
- Health Impact Assessment
- Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment
- Provision of training to community members to facilitate community-led environmental sampling
- Traditional food studies
Examples of past projects
- Detailed quantitative human health risk assessment for a treated municipal wastewater discharge in proximity to an Indigenous community
- Health Impact Assessment for a supply road in Northern Ontario
- Risk communications and stakeholder engagement for mine remediation
- Fish tissue quality advisory communication plans
- Traditional food studies with First Nations across Canada (BC, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick)
- Peer reviews of traditional food consumption assessment studies resulting in consumption information for Indigenous Peoples (Nunavut, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Newfoundland and Labrador).
- Support for radon detection and mitigation program
- Development of a radon communication and
- Exploring the use of the RISK21 approach for indigenous community-based human health risk assessments: two case studies