ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT GUIDELINES FOR EXPLORATION

PDAC e3Plus Framework

PDAC

When the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada was launching its E3+ Framework for Responsible Exploration, dozens of industry partners and stakeholders on various committees pulled together hundreds of pages of suggested environmental best-practices to reduce the impact of exploration activities on local ecosystems, with the goal of assembling a concise reference-style checklist for various stages of exploration activity.

Big Picture Communication – with a strong background in sustainability policies for the extractive sector – read, organized, re-wrote, and edited the massive compilation of data, reducing redundancy, eliminating unnecessary peripheral content, and re-writing for clarity, and enough brevity that the checklists could be referenced in the field by geologists and prospectors.