Xodus AURORA is accredited as a Registered Environmental Assessor with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) and as such is independently recognised as an organisation capable of undertaking high standard EIAs in accordance with current best practice.
	Feedback from BP for the EIA undertaken for the UK, Atlantic Margin, Clair oil development: “"It is a major achievement to have produced an Environmental Statement which received nothing but compliments from the DTI and its statutory consultees. Xodus AURORA’s skills in communication, project management, team working, delivery to tight timescales and pleasant disposition set it apart from its competitors".

Environmental Impact Assessment
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and consultation process are important management tools ensuring that potential environmental hazards and effects arising from proposed projects are evaluated and that appropriate control measures are implemented. EIAs generally follow a standard methodology:

› Screening to determine whether an EIA is required
› Scoping to determine the issues/information that should be covered in the EIA
› Data gathering and the assessing of impacts, both positive and negative
› Developing appropriate mitigation measures
› Documenting and presenting findings
› Follow up monitoring actions.

By integrating stakeholder involvement we can ensure that projects not only comply with the legal requirements of statutory authorities, but also obtain the support of non-statutory communities thus avoiding project delays. We develop good working relationships with government departments, their statutory consultees and a wide range of non-statutory consultees.

Xodus AURORA has extensive experience of undertaking all aspects of the EIA process and is recognised as a provider of high quality, robust assessments to support planning permission applications (onshore) and environmental consents applications (offshore). The cornerstone to this success is ensuring EIA is an integral process to project design and operation, and that client project teams are fully integrated in environmental issues identification (ENVID) and the EIA process.

Xodus AURORA works closely with the engineers in our sister Divisions which allows us to provide a fully co-ordinated approach to EIA from project conceptual design through construction to project implementation and decommissioning. We apply a variety of state of the art assessment tools, including Geographical Information Systems (GIS), chemical risk assessment tools and emissions modelling (e.g. atmospheric emissions and effluent discharges).