MEK Earth and Environmental Inc. (MEK) is a registered Canadian company with headquarters in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada. MEK is both a service and product delivery company. With over 25 plus years of domestic and international experience, their consultants are committed to providing high quality management consultancy and executing services in the geosciences and environmental sectors to clients domestically and internationally.
The development of the oil and gas industries in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan has produced, and will continue to produce, undesirable environmental outcomes that must be effectively and continuously managed to prevent the pollution and contamination of their natural resources. In Canada, MEK’s immediate geographical focus is Western Canada. MEK will provide services indirectly or directly related to environmental protection; mainly soil and water protection, treatment, supply and conservation. Internationally, MEK will avail its services in sub-Sahara Africa, the Caribbean states and the Asia Pacific region where the demand for potable water and environmental protection has been steadily and exponentially rising.
They always thrive to provide world-class professional services to their clients in the groundwater, environmental, mining and geotechnical industries. Their areas of expertise include remote sensing, hydrogeological studies, drilling engineering, groundwater geophysics, environmental site assessment and impact studies and modelling.
Their pledge to customers is:
They recognize the concern for quality and cost with respect to the work being undertaken. They are aware that they are working for customers’ hard-earned money. Thus, they are dedicated to supporting communities, businesses and other organizations to find, and where feasible, given the needs, minimize the costs associated with their projects. In addition, they endeavour to deliver their agreed-upon results within the established price and schedule without compromising on quality.
The health and safety of their employees and the public is a paramount consideration in all that they do. As such, applicable codes, guidelines and standards, and essential legislative requirements are incorporated into their project design and implementation. This includes ensuring that all staff acquire the relevant knowledge and skill set in Health, Safety and Environmental practices and are able to identify potential hazards and eliminate them in the workplace in a timely manner. In line with this, MEK offers and ensures that all staff partake in all mandated regulatory Health and Safety courses and training programs. Additionally MEK provides regular refresher courses to all its staff as may be required, and also disseminates new occupational health and safety information among its staff. Specifically they ensure their staff receive the following trainings when required for the safe performance of their duties:
Their staff is provided with the required personal protective equipment required for each job and MEK ensures that equipment is properly worn at all times at each site and used for the intended purpose.
Regular sessions are held by their staff on their premises to discuss “near miss” incidences and to formulate steps to prevent these incidences from occurring in the future. This entails accessing the impacts of their activities and refining theirprocedures and providing additional training when required.
Services
Hydrogeological and GeoEnvrionmental Services - Their professional services range from the selection of prospective water well sites resulting in the construction of high-capacity municipal and industrial water wells in different hydrogeological terrains through piped-water system designs and construction straight through to the management and operation of these facilities.
Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Relief Services - Their staff have been engaged in humanitarian assistance and emergency relief interventions in the developing countries for more than 25 years now. Their focus has been mainly in the provision of clean water, mostly through the development of groundwater and surface water resources and the promotions of good hygiene and environmental sanitation practices in rural and peri-urban communities and refugee camps.
Research - Groundwater resources remain a major source of water supply particularly in sub-Sahara Africa, the Caribbean and South East Asia. MEK has teamed out with a number of tertiary and research institutions to conduct top-notch research abroad that will improve the sustainable management of these invaluable resources. MEK and its associates are particularly interested in conducting research in the broad area of groundwater resource development and sustainable management and will work with government and research institutions, private entities and communities in Canada and abroad to find solutions that will improve the sustainable management of these water resources.
Equipment Sale - Working with their associates in Canada and abroad, MEK provides retail services in the sale of geophysical equipment and water and wastewater treatment systems.
