Our Project Work Areas

• Our team includes professional engineering expertise in environmental and water resources engineering.  We provide technical review and can assist in the identification of potential issues and concerns related to project development.
• Our experience spans projects in energy development, mining, environment, water management, in addition to Aboriginal Relations and Indigenous issues.
• We analyze risks, understand issues, and create solutions for your land-management and resource sector development projects.

• We are experienced with the elements of consultation and negotiation that make land-related interactions more just, successful and meaningful for Indigenous peoples.  This justice increases the potential for success for project proponents as well.
• We are expert facilitators in the area of cultural value exploration and inclusion. Getting to the heart of the values that are the foundation of concerns and interests can create strong, resilient relationships.
• Bridgeway Consulting excels in cross-cultural consultation: understanding Indigenous rights, values and interests, understanding impacts and cumulative effects to rights and culture, and developing accommodation solutions including mitigation and compensation.
• Our multi-disciplinary experience with domestic and international consultation law and practices allows for strong solutions.
• We are able to navigate the often complicated and differing sets of guidance from documents such as UNDRIP, ILO169, IFC Guidance notes and other regulatory guidance.
• Experience with regulatory and permitting processes, including EA and Mine Development permitting.
• We have worked with numerous Indigenous and Aboriginal communities throughout British Columbia, Canada and the world on consultation and negotiation initiatives

• Demonstrated success in all range of negotiations with Indigenous peoples.
• Negotiating partners have positive experiences with Bridgeway, on both sides of the table
• We understand the complexities and components of active, meaningful collaboration and negotiation free, prior and informed consent. We enable 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
  • Communication Protocols
  •  Capacity Funding Agreement
  • Memorandum of Understanding Impact Benefit Agreement (including past grievances)

Bridgeway Consulting  has negotiated successfully with historic grievances resolved for proponent.

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
• cross-cultural consultation and community engagement
• energy planning
• structured decision-making

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

Bridgeway provides project management and coordination services for natural resource management projects. Dr. Kennedy's experience with a variety of natural resource management and construction projects ensures effective scope development and management, clear direction and effective outcomes. 

Dr. Kennedy's  past experience as a civil (water resources) engineer and project manager is applied to each project to ensure effective budget tracking, schedule management, team building, and task and activity forecasting.

Bridgeway's clients include Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments and corporate clients:

Saulteau First Nations

Government of BC

Teck Resources

BC Hydro

West Moberly First Nations

McLeod Lake Indian Band  

Adams Lake Indian Band

SNTC Shuswap Nation Tribal Council

Association for Mineral Exploration AME BC

Strategic management consulting including collaboration, negotiation, engagement in the fields of  natural resource management, energy planning, decision-analysis, water resource management and risk analysis. 

Consultation, Collaboration and Consent 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