Consultation components of EA Applications:

• mine expansions in British Columbia
• mine re-opening
• greenfields mine
• Alberta, greenfields natural resource development
• Chile, greenfields mine development

 
Bridgeway has been part of numerous negotiation teams, both with corporate clients and Aboriginal communities:

• Demonstrated success in all range of Indigenous peoples’ negotiations
• Negotiating partners have positive experiences with Bridgeway, on both sides of the table
• We have a deep understanding of consultation, accommodation and negotiation requirements and/or best practice which enables our clients to predict a successful path forward with less risk to derailing
• We negotiate informal process agreements in addition to complex project agreements
• We negotiate formal agreements ranging in complexity from:
  • Communication Protocols
  • Capacity Funding Agreement
  • Memorandum of Understanding
  • Impact Benefit Agreement (including historical grievances)

 
One example of Bridgeway’s contribution to success is a negotiation in British Columbia:

• Bridgeway joined the process in late 2011, successfully concluded in 2013
• Multiple First Nation communities and leadership at two separate tables
• Profit sharing mechanism developed
• Business agreement, Training commitments, Employment commitments
• Built to ultimate agreement through interim agreements
• Managed strategy for 3 parallel processes and mandates
• Negotiations ongoing since 2006, concluded in 2013

 
Strategy and Policy Development
We have more than two decades of extensive experience in the field of strategic planning and engineering.  Bridgeway’s specific areas of expertise in strategy and policy development include:

• creating strategies for Indigenous land-related negotiations and engagement
• social risk management
• regulatory and permitting process management and
• multiparty resource planning and management including cumulative effects process management

 
Strategic consulting including Indigenous issues management (consultation, negotiation, engagement), energy planning, decision-analysis, water resource management and risk analysis.

• Excellent facilitation and mediation skills
• Able to lead teams and build relationships
• Creative, strategic thinker who finds consensus solutions
• Builds respectful, productive relationships
• Environmental Assessment Experience