• Metal Recycling Facility Approvals

    Western Environmental was engaged to obtain relevant approvals and permits for a metals recycling facility, as well as undertaking ongoing monitoring and compliance associated with licensing of the site under the Environmental Protection Act.

    Working alongside the client’s legal team, an expert review of site assessment and remediation works at the client’s former site was also conducted, including appraisal of consultant works, timeframes and methodologies for achieving remediation end-point and the ability to re-occupy the site.

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  • North East Link Transaction Advisory

    Western Environmental was engaged by law firm Clayton Utz on behalf of the Victorian State Government to undertake site investigations and provide environmental constraint and risk advice in relation to a portfolio of properties acquired as part of the North East Link Project. Western Environmental were able to quickly and efficiently assess environment risks and provide the client with concise and actionable advice to facilitate acquisition of the sites.

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  • Dewatering Review and Legal Support

    Western Environmental was engaged by a law firm representing the primary insurer for a number of properties affected by a poorly executed dewatering program at a construction site in South Perth. The project was high risk, involving contaminated land, groundwater and dewatering where significant impact to surrounding structures was caused by contaminated groundwater and improper discharge management leading to localised flooding of basements as well as environmental impact.

    Works included a technical review of documentation, dewatering treatment and effluent discharge management, dewatering and treatment system design and compliance monitoring and reporting, and advice to counsel regarding cause of observed impacts to the environment and surrounding properties.

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Risk, Strategy and
Technical Advisory

Solving these problems is what our Risk, Strategy & Technical Advisory practice was established to do. As  the centre of technical excellence in our organisation, it’s where our most experienced senior practitioners – auditors, risk assessors, remediation specialists, hydrogeologists, scientists, engineers and strategic advisors –  converge, not as a collection of discrete disciplines, but as a genuinely integrated problem-solving team that is brought to bear on challenges that demand the full extent of what we know and what we can do.

Our objective in every engagement is not simply to solve the problem; it’s to solve it in a manner that is commercially optimal, reputationally unassailable, and technically peerless. That standard shapes how we approach every challenge; from the forensic analysis of a contested liability to the construction of a regulatory strategy under intense time and commercial pressure. We begin with a deep understanding of each client’s risk tolerance, commercial objectives, and stakeholder environment, and from that foundation, we develop bespoke strategies that go beyond risk mitigation to deliver outcomes that protect and enhance our clients’ position in every dimension that matters.

When a contamination matter becomes a legal dispute, our team provides the technical depth and professional standing that such matters demand. Our practitioners serve as consulting and testifying expert witnesses as well as Client-side litigation support, and our experience navigating complex, multi-party environmental litigation means we understand not just the technical dimensions of a dispute, but the strategic and procedural landscape underpinning it. 

Similarly, where high-risk scenarios present latent commercial opportunity — a constrained asset where liability is misunderstood by the market, a regulatory process where a well-constructed technical case can shift the outcome, or a transaction where environmental risk has been overpriced — we have both the expertise to identify it, and the capability to assist our Clients in securing a beneficial process outcome.

Key Services

  • Strategic environmental risk advisory and management
  • Regulator and stakeholder consultation, engagement and negotiation
  • Expert witness services — consulting and testifying experts
  • Litigation support and independent technical review
  • Transaction advisory, environmental due diligence and feasibility
  • Detailed human health and ecological risk assessment
  • Hydrogeological, contaminant fate and transport modelling
  • Hydrochemistry Assessment and Modelling
  • Remediation options analysis, cost estimation and modelling
  • Complex and high-risk site closure

Supporting
critical industries

From specialist consultancy to advanced environmental technology and R&D, Western Environmental brings the expertise to tackle complex issues with clarity and confidence.