General Law of Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection (Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente, LGEEPA) establishes in its Article 28 that the environmental impact evaluation is the procedure through the environmental authorities establishes the conditions that must be observed by works and activities that may cause an environmental unbalance, or those that could exceed limits or condition established on regulations to protect the environment as well as to preserve or restore ecosystems in order to avoid or to reduce to its minimum negative effects on the environment.

The federal Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat (SEMARNAT) considers that Environmental Impact Assessment evaluation is a tool to generate environmental information as well as an analytical procedure to evaluate social cost-benefit comprehensive elements on each development project in order to propose technical measurements to reduce costs and to increase benefits and to obtain a positive balance from the environmental perspective in each project or activity.

is highly qualified to perform Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) by offering these studies for a wide range of industrial activities and services. The high level of training and experience of our employees allows us to accomplish complex and involved assessments in time, efficiently and with no disregard for quality.

experience in EIA, on federal and local levels, includes: housing developments projects in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area; a fertilizer production facility in the east coast; a highway in the States of Michoacán and Guerrero; tourist development projects in the Baja California Peninsula and at the Cancun-Tulum Tourist Corridor; a textile industrial park in the State of Morelos; a steel foundry consortium at the Pacific coast; an industrial park in the State of Guanajuato; a passengers train system in the State of Guanajuato and; within the energy sector a wide variety of studies for natural gas pipelines, natural gas compression stations and combined cycle power plants, among many others.

Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA’s) are one of the main professional services that are offered by our company and in that sense a detailed list of the EIA´s performed by Kaiser Consultores is included in a list within this document

It is also important to highlight that our company also provides Base Line Studies as a part of the Environmental Impact Assessments, in which the Regional Environmental System is clearly defined. Our company can also assist our clients in the preparation of Environmental Management Plans and Flora and Fauna Management and Rescue Programs, as a result of the environmental impact evaluation process and the requirements established in an authorization, services that are reflected in a reduction of the timeframes necessary to initiate a project.