Solution Minded – Client Focused

Approach

Our mission is to support environmentally-sustainable projects. The first step to helping design the right solution to your needs is early engagement with professionals about your project so we can better understand your challenges and solution needs. Finding the right location and the right approach to your projects and portfolio has never been more important to ensure regulatory compliance, social license and sustainability for future generations.

Early Engagement Matters
Identify Potential Constraints and Challenges Early
Design a Workplan Path to Success
Achieve Your Expected Timelines
Meet Regulatory Expectations

Leading Expertise Servicing

Sector Specialization

What We Do

Services

We provide a wide array of environmental services.

Feasibility Assessments

De-risk your project early and identify whether environmental roadblocks stand in the way of your project plans.

Baseline Studies

Qualified Professionals to document what is present on your site using modern technology and approved approaches.

Environmental Permitting and Compliance

We can confidently get your projects through the regulatory process and help to keep you in compliance.

Wildlife Mitigation Planning

Better design your projects to make them wildlife friendly.

Expert Support

A specialization in third-party reviews, environmental due-diligence and owner’s environmental review services.

About the Team

We bring in on-call experts to fulfill all our client’s needs. These are trusted suppliers that have Master Service Agreements with Aries Environmental. We don’t mark up their work fees or charge any additional charges with bringing them onto your projects. With our list of trusted experts, Aries is able to provide a full-suite of services to our clients. We are also happy to work collaboratively with your external contractors and service providers in your best interest.

Jean-Michel DeVink, PhD, R.P.Bio

Principal Consultant/ Owner

  • Jean-Michel is the Principal Consultant of Aries Environmental Consulting based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He has 20 years of research and regulatory experience and is a technical specialist in terrestrial ecology, environmental assessment, environmental effects monitoring, and ecological risk assessment. In addition to over 12 years of environmental consulting experience, Jean-Michel served five years as a wildlife biologist and regulator with the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources and Environment and Climate Change Canada. He has extensive experience in environmental assessment, including as technical lead for biological valued components for clients in sectors such as transportation, mining, energy (renewable and conventional), power, government (Indigenous and non-indigenous), and forestry. Jean-Michel has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability since 2014 where he teaches about environmental monitoring and assessment.