Impact study for laying an undersea telecommunications cable between Menton, Roquebrune, Bastia and Solenzana

The feasibility study for a project for installing an undersea telecommunications cable linking Corsica to the continent revealed environmental and technical constraints at three points on land: Menton, Bastia and Solenzana. In order to respect the regulations in force, it will be necessary to evaluate the impacts of this project on the environment. BCEOM was asked to carry out this study.

Parcs éoliens : 64 éoliennes / 100 MW au total. Etudes d'environnement, paysage, dossiers réglementaires

The "Compagnie Nationale du Rhône - CNR" is planning to develop wind turbine projects on land which it holds as a concession along the Rhône river from Switzerland to the sea, with the following objectives:
• enhancing the field of renewable energy, as the "CNR" already operates numerous hydroelectric structures,
• developing and communicating on its 100%-renewable energy production facilities,
• enabling it to work with local authorities in the field of sustainable development.

For these projects, the "CNR" expressed a wish to work in collaboration with BCEOM, an engineering consultancy specialised in several fields including energy, for:
• preliminary environmental studies,
• regulatory impact studies if the project's feasibility was not called into question by the preliminary environmental studies,
• support services for communicating on these projects,
• documents attached to the construction permit application and public enquiry documents required for these projects to be examined.

BCEOM provided the "CNR" with support for the environmental assessment of its projects so as to optimise their integration into the environment and respect sustainable development criteria. The purpose of this assistance was to:
• advise the "CNR" to optimise the development of wind turbine clusters in accordance with the specific environmental stakes of each site,
• accompany the "CNR" in its administrative procedures and other procedures to be respected, carry out the preliminary environmental studies and impact studies and produce construction permit applications and public enquiry documents.

This assistance assignment to the "CNR" concerned the following wind turbine cluster projects: Beaucaire, Fos-sur-Mer, Bollène, Le Pouzin, St Pierre la Roche, Bruis, Baron, Sauveterre, Bourg-les-Valence, Ozon-Arras-sur-Rhône.

Strategic analysis for setting up offshore water and wind generator farms

This project involves designing a decision-aid tool to:
• determine potentially suitable areas for setting up offshore wind turbine farms for producing renewable electricity,
• assess realistic renewable energy development scenarios (according to various energy bouquets combining wind and hydraulic energy),
• evaluating the environmental and social-economic effects of these offshore renewable energy sectors, in application of guideline 2001/42/CE,
• orient developments linked directly or indirectly to renewable marine energy.
This tool is designed for government services to allow them to determine a framework for future international tenders.
The tool must integrate environmental data (physical and environmental) and data linked to uses (servitudes, constraints, etc.).

Environmental evaluation of the State-Region Plan Contract and the European programming documents concerning the North - Pas-de-Calais Region.

With reference to sustainable development, the purpose of this study was to analyse both the content of the 6 programmes concerning the North - Pas-de-Calais region and propose a method for later assessment of the measures and projects contained in these programmes.

Setting up a basic reference system to measure the success of environmental integration in new Gaz de France projects.

BCEOM was responsible for evaluating the company strategy of Gaz de France (GDF) concerning the environment and proposing actions to improve this strategy. BCEOM provided a reference list and an environmental evaluation guide for building GDF structures (piping and occasional structures) whose purpose is to: