Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. merges with ERM

VANCOUVER, Sept. 6, 2012 /CNW/ – ERM, one of the world’s leading
environmental and sustainability consultancies, announces it has
completed its merger with Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. (Rescan),
one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies. Effective immediately,
Rescan will operate as Rescan, an ERM Group Company.

Both ERM and Rescan share a history of, and commitment to, delivering
world-leading environmental management solutions to their clients,
spanning decades, industries and borders. Rescan enjoys an
international reputation for its work in the mining sector, and has
been active for more than 30 years in more than 50 countries on six
continents. Begun in 1971, ERM today operates 140 offices in 40
countries, with more than 4,700 employees and 2,000 clients,
representing 50 percent of the Global Fortune 500.

Rescan was founded by Clem Pelletier in 1981 and has become a BC
entrepreneurial success story. “Early in my career, I recognized
environmental assessment and protection would become a major priority
in permitting industrial development projects, here in Canada and
around the world,” said Pelletier. “We’ve built a very successful
business by ensuring sound environmental principles are embedded into
our clients’ resource development projects. The results speak for
themselves in the number of permitted projects we’ve been privileged to
work on.” Clem as a Partner in ERM will assume the role of President of
the new Rescan Environmental Services for Canada as well as Director of
the Company.

Rescan’s integration into the ERM Group of companies will take place
over the next few months and Pierre Pelletier, Rescan’s former
President and Chief Operating Officer, will manage the transition and
assume leadership of ERM’s Canadian operations in 2013 as the Canadian
Managing Partner. “This is an important opportunity for Rescan and
ERM”, said Pelletier. “We now offer our clients added benefits,
including access to a broader range of expertise, services and support
across geographies and industry sectors.”

“Adding 170 plus Rescan staff to our business here in Canada allows us
serve our clients more effectively across our strategic sectors:
Mining, Oil & Gas and Power. The alignment of business culture and
technical capabilities is strong, and together, the sum of the parts is
clearly greater than the individual parts,” said David McArthur, ERM
CEO Americas. “We now have 220 plus staff in the Canadian market, and
another 2,500 in the rest of the Americas, and intend to continue grow
the business as we always have – serving our key clients across all of
our practice offerings.”

About Rescan
Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. was a private,
Canadian-owned, environmental consulting firm offering a wide range of
services to the resource development industry. It operates with offices
primarily in Western and Northern Canada. Rescan has developed
excellent working relationships with First Nations across Canada. In
particular Rescan has an ongoing successful joint venture with the
Tahltan Nation Development Corporation through an operating
partnership, RTEC Environmental Consultants.

About ERM
ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk,
social and sustainability consulting services. ERM has more than 140
offices in 40 countries and employs more than 4,700 staff. Embedding
sustainability into everything that it does, ERM is committed to
providing a service that is consistent, professional and of the highest
quality. ERM established a permanent presence in Canada in 2003, after
working with Canadian clients for more than 25 years. The company has
offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal. For more
information, visit www.erm.com.

SOURCE Rescan, an ERM Group Company