Indigenous Engagement

Indigenous Engagement Canada AECOM’s Integrated Our Guiding Who We Are Lifecycle of Services Principles AECOM’s global Indigenous engagement team is managed by Indigenous people. In Canada, − Community influence and input into siting, design, our staff have a long history of working on the and project planning Our Guiding Principles are modeled after the four principles of the front lines of engagement for various levels − Employment and training opportunities of government, industry, and Indigenous medicine wheel: − Retention of community members and communities. Using our extensive engagement Indigenous-owned businesses to assist expertise, we help our client understand the with projects North | mental is THINKING nuances of the negotiation processes, current Pre-planning Empower project participants with a positive and evolving legal context and Indigenous − Capacity building for longer-term project planning contribution in the decision-making process by community issues – and can help make the obtaining critical feedback on project concerns, Duty to Consult and Accommodate a positive alternatives, decisions, and the development of experience. Win-win solutions are our business, Successful Project Planning best practices as is getting it right the first time. We recognize the importance of developing meaningful and Implementation East | spiritual is SEEING relationships based on mutual respect and − Align with free, prior and informed consent Construction & understanding to help to ensure that the work principles Decommissioning Design For all communications and outreach, use we do respects the culture, language, and ways − Facilitate discussions between proponents plain language, impactful graphics, and media of life of our clients. and Indigenous communities engagement that are familiar and understood by the community − Develop mutually beneficial processes for We build an improved understanding for planning and development all parties of project needs, strengths, and South | emotional is FEELING − Support Indigenous-led initiatives challenges – so positive and negative potential Build strong relationships based on honesty, effects can be identified, and mitigation trust, and integrity by involving the client and measures can be developed collaboratively. Proponent Relationships Permitting affected parties throughout the project - ensuring We help communities navigate change and and Partnerships that concerns and aspirations are consistently maximize local benefits – appropriately understood and considered and that programs fit managing project risks and ultimately achieving − Develop and establish community relationships the realities and goals of the local community better project outcomes. early in the process − Develop and support processes for culturally West | Physical is DOING relevant community engagement Involve local community-driven businesses early to − Support community benefits and prosperity identify opportunities for long-term growth in the through all integrated life cycle services communities − Provide cultural awareness training Jamie Saulnier Indigenous Business Lead [email protected] Pre-planning Design Permitting Construction & , PhD Barker Fariss − Community engagement, Decommissioning Global Indigenous Engagement consultation, and − Community infrastructure − Environmental assessment Practice, Associate VP facilitation (water supply, solid waste, training and process advice − Asset recovery and evaluation U.S. Office of Native Sovereign and wastewater, roads) − Mediation and conflict resolution − Federal, provincial and territorial − Deactivation, decontamination Tribal Relations, Director − Strategic communications support environmental assessments − Preparation of permit applications and demolition [email protected] − Meeting design and facilitation − Social and natural enviromental impact − Indigenous knowledge collection and − Environmental remediation assessment interpretation − Ongoing community engagement − Removal and reclamation and consultation − Risk assessment and due diligence Marcel Pelletier − Capacity building − Environmental performance monitoring − Ongoing Indigenous / company − Human health and ecological risk assessment Indigenous Relations, VP − Land use and community planning − Contaminated site assessment and relationship building − Adaptive management plans for sensitive [email protected] − Governance advice and support remediation − Labour / skills / training inventory ecosystems − Strategic communications support − Employment and business opportunities − Indigenous knowledge studies Our Experience Working Warriors We are passionate about finding innovative Provincial Road 304 to involved in coordinating Indigenous Site Remediation at Integrated Power Generation solutions to the challenges faced by Berens River All-Season field monitors, effects assessment and permitting, identifying mitigation Maskwacis First Nation, Feasibility Study Indigenous communities. Our successful Nipissing First Nation strategies are driven by our dependable, Road Environmental Impact strategies, developing a robust Pigeon Lake IOL Canada Nipissing, Ontario trustworthy, and responsible consultants Assessment environmental monitoring program that Manitoba East Side Road Authority Pigeon Lake, Alberta and their understanding of the needs of the considered Indigenous knowledge, A Traditional Land Use and Ecological Berens River, Manitoba communities we serve. With over a hundred gap analysis, and integration of existing A socioeconomic plan was developed Knowledge Study was prepared for projects in our portfolio involving Indigenous An Environmental Impact Assessment Traditional Land Use and Ecological based on sustainable capacity a major four-lane highway expansion communities across Canada and the United (EIA) was prepared for an all-season Knowledge. building, economic opportunities, and project. Interviews were held with States, many of these solutions have set new road in northern Manitoba from PR304 environmental protection - strategically community members, while youth standards for industry-wide best practices. near Manigotagan to Berens River First Manitoba Schools Initiative focused on integrating the Four First engagement and spatial information were prioritized considering critical We also work with each community to tailor Nation. The EIA included Traditional – Design and Construction Nations, land use needs for future these industry-wide best practices into wise Land Use and Ecological Knowledge generations. These initiatives included community and project needs. Results Study studies, community engagement, of Four Schools (God’s increasing the ability of local Indigenous identified an alternative route to avoid practices that recognize a community’s Through the use of Working Warriors environmental effects assessment, and people to receive and maximize the impacts to elder homes and important context, culture, and protocols in developing Lake Narrows First Nation, software, AECOM is able to connect clients alternative route selection. project employment opportunities cultural practice sites. projects and programs. Manto Sipi Cree Nation, to Indigenous peoples seeking employment. awarded to local Indigenous people, Bunibonibee Cree Nation and Clients can post job opportunities associated particularly for Maskwacis and Henvey Inlet Wind Energy Highway Expansion with their projects on the platform and Wasagamack First Nation) residents; and maximizing the project’s Centre and Transmission Line Indigenous Services Canada Project Near Magnetawan Indigenous community members can submit Pattern Development procurement of goods and services Northern Manitoba resumes and provide information about Parry Sound, Ontario from local Indigenous businesses. First Nation Ministry of Transportation themselves to advance hiring. Working Project management services were AECOM successfully helped navigate Sudbury, Ontario Warriors is currently used by over 300 executed for the design, construction, permitting requirements that spanned Port of Algoma Indigenous communities in Canada and fit-up and commissioning of four new multiple jurisdictions for a large wind A Traditional Land Use and Ecological has also become a valuable tool for clients K-12 high schools and two renovated Redevelopment Project energy and transmission project in Port of Algoma Knowledge Study was prepared for to track and report on their Indigenous schools in the northern First Nation Ontario. AECOM hired a total of 27 Port of Algoma, Ontario a major four-lane highway expansion hiring programs. Communities of God’s Lake First Nation, Indigenous staff, from Henvey Inlet project. Interviews were held with Manto Sipi Cree Nation, Bunibonibee AECOM worked closely with community First Nation, Shawanaga First Nation community members, while youth To take our clients’ recruitment efforts to the Cree Nation, and Wasagamack First leaders on a plan for integrating and Magnetawan First Nation. We engagement and spatial information next level, AECOM offers additional services to Nation. The design and construction power generation projects within the were committed to building strong, were prioritized considering critical strengthen hiring initiatives. In encouraging as considered that all four communities community’s programs for social and positive relationships with Indigenous community and project needs. Results many applicants as possible, we can develop are in remote and northern locations, economic development.

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