Environmental Consulting
Efficiency and professionalism are the most important criteria for evaluating our work with clients. An early request to GRATA for professional legal assistance on complying with environmental law will save your money and time in addition to protecting your business’ reputation.
Environmental Consulting
Environmental consulting is becoming an increasingly marketable kind of legal service for big business operations connected with the exploration, exploitation and export of nature resources, the circulation of chemical and radioactive materials, the construction of heavy industrial projects, and production and consumption waste operations.
Environmental infringements can result in heavy fines, suits, compulsory budget payments, and the revocation of necessary licences and permits.
The expansion of any business always faces many obstacles, including the need to obtain permits and approvals from state authorities, the observance of environmental protection measures and compliance with many other requirements of environmental law.
GRATA's environmental consultancy will help detect and prevent problems, preserve the company's good reputation, and avoid any unnecessary expenses. We are happy to offer you environmental consultancy services including but not limited to:
- consultation on environmental permits;
- consultation on waste disposal (document examination in waste disposal, analysis of individual problematic situations, analysis of civil cases and administrative offence cases materials with the aim of judicial defence perspective assessment).
Recent Experience:
GRATA renders the widest range of services with regard to legal support of the environmental aspects of business. We can provide you with valuable advice regarding environmental issues of any complexity.
We have rendered services to a number of the largest companies of the oil-and-gas, energy, oil-chemical sectors and the uranium-mining industry. We point to the following cases in our recent experience:
- the exhaustive legal opinion on issues of obtaining of
all necessary documents for starting drilling works was prepared for a
Kazakhstani mining company;
- consulting a major oil company regarding damage compensation caused by
gas flaring without the permit of the Ministry of Oil and Gas;
- consulting a major power generation company on issues regarding the reduction of rate for emissions into the environment;
- consulting a local company, which owns a large internet-marketplace, on
the issues regarding carrying out activity within the territory of
Kazakhstan, and recognition of possible risks;
- the exhaustive legal opinion on legal liability in connection with the treatment, transportation and storage of radioactive materials was prepared for a large foreign uranium company;
- we advised a large foreign oil-and-gas company on legal liability in connection with the treatment, transportation and storage of oil products;
- we advised a large oil company on issues of change of environmental requirements to gas flaring as a result of adoption of the Law of RK 'On Subsoil and Subsoil Use', and issues of liability for environmental violations;
- legal monitoring and advising of the process of documents collection and requests submission to the Ministry of Environmental Protection for obtaining environmental permits, performed on behalf of many large oil-and-gas companies. As a result of our actions all declared environmental emissions limits have been accepted and approved by the Ministry, as reflected in the issued permits;
- upon the request of one of the largest oil-and-gas consortia, we have analysed the environmental legislation regarding the production and consumption of waste. Based on the legal analysis our lawyers prepared systematised reference material successfully which was used by the consortium in its day-to-day production activities;
- the exhaustive legal opinion on legal liability in connection with the treatment of radioactive materials was prepared for one of the largest Kazakhstani uranium producers and exporters;
- our lawyers performed a legal risks assessment regarding certain chapters of the Environmental Code of RK and prepared the legally founded plan of corrective actions for a group of subsoil users;
- we prepared a legal opinion for a large oil company regarding issues of the disposal of waste waters originating from oil production;
- we have prepared legal opinions on issues of the economic assessment of environmental damage and have given other explanations to a number of large foreign companies regarding payment for environmental emissions;
- we advised subsoil users on the competence of state environmental bodies and the legality of their audits;
- we advised an oil company on drafting a contracting agreement and the need to obtain a permit for environmental emissions;
- we advised a phosphoric company on the legal regulation of production wastes;
- we advised an oil company on drafting an agreement for the disposal of strata waters in view of the requirements of the environmental legislation of RK;
- we advised a foreign investment company on alternative energy business in Kazakhstan.
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