For more than 30 years ARGO’s principals have provided organisations in many sectors with environmental project services, including advice on acquisition of permits and associated consents, undertaking environmental investigations and developing and implementing environmental management systems.
Recent highlights have included:
2017
- Tradewaste and urban stormwater consents - AFFCO Wiri and Napier.
- Estuarine Whitebait and Fishing Surveys - AFFCO Wairoa.
- Resource Consent Management Plans; river diffuser permitting - AFFCO Horotiu, Wairoa
- Pathogen sampling and analysis programme – AFFCO Horotiu, Rangiuru and Wairoa.
- Water/land discharge permitting, biomonitoring, AEE, iwi liaison - AFFCO Rangiuru
- Wastewater and stormwater discharge consent reviews - Auckland council (various)
- Dairy Plant Construction - Environmental Support - Open Country Dairy Limited
- Ecological surveys incl electric fishing – Developers (various), Forestry Companies (various).
- Fibre Optic Cable ESIA- Federated States of Micronesia; Savusavu Fiji – World Bank
- Coastal Erosion Protection FSM, Chuuk – World Bank
- Urban stormwater infrastructure – GIS-based – Auckland Council, Private Developers
- Gold mine - environmental management monitoring and reporting - Fiji - Lion One Ltd
- Airport EIA, Fiji, Nausori
- Roading - ecological surveys and EIA preparation (various) - Fiji Roads Authority
- Electricity infrastructure EIA – transmission corridors, substations - Fiji Electricity Authority
- Landfill - EIA, Ecological surveys, catchment surveys - Fiji. Ba Town Council, Maruru
2016
2015
2014
– Fjij – Toa Gold Mine environmental management plan
– Fiji Sheraton Hotel – Jetty development EIA
– AFFCO meatworks Wiri – storm water and trade waste consents
– SPM meatworks, Invercargill, Stormwater consenting
– TTR offshore iron sand consent programme – hearing and appeal
2013
- Aerial cetacean survey South Taranaki Bight, TTR
- Fiji - Fosters Brewery Marine Outfall Survey
- Riverhead reservoir ecological assessment
- Fiji – flood management programme Ba, Fiji.
- Dairy factory consenting, Waharoa UHT facility [ongoing thru 2014]
- Onshore iron ore sand mining project feasibility, North Island
- Fiji resort development EIA
- TTR offshore iron sand consent programme (ongoing]
2012
- Fiji - Fosters Brewery Marine Outfall Survey
- Fiji - EIA for Suva Airport Upgrade
- NZ Government funded study tour to UK for marine energy collaboration
- G Venus accepted as Full Member of NZ Planning Institute
- Air permit application Rangiuru Meatworks, NZ
- Finalise mediated settlement for Wairoa Meatworks consents
- TTR offshore iron sand consent programme (ongoing]
- Fiji (various) development project EIA programmes
2011
- $200,000 Marine Energy Grant Parnell Baths Tidal Energy Project Fiji - Fosters Brewery
- Marine Outfall Survey Fiji – Lautoka – Diesel Refinery EIA
- Tonga, Samoa, Niue,Cook Islands - Pacific Energy Trade Mission (NZ Gov’t)
- Chile Wave Project Follow-up mission to Santiago
- Tonga Wave Energy Project Feasibility Study for Government of Tonga
- Lead environmental consultant TTR offshore iron sand mining project
- Environment Court approval of Crest 200MW tidal power plant
- Resource Consents Moerewa Meatworks, Northland
2010
- MFE Product Stewardship Certification Audit – paint manufacturer
- Hearing Commissioner Rawene Wastewater Treatment Plant, Hokianga, NZ
- Dairy factory consenting programme, Horotiu and Moerewa [ongoing]
- Resource Consents for Chatham Island Wave Power Project
- Irrigation consenting, Lochinver Station Central NZ
- Chile Wave Energy Project Feasibility
- Fiji Salt Lake Tidal Generation Project Feasibility
- Air Permit Wiri Plant AFFCO NZ Limited