Environmental Risk Solutions Ltd (ERS) services

Shane Herlihy was instrumental in the development of guidance for the EPA on Environmental Liability Risk Assessment, Residual Management Plans and Financial Provision for the IPPC and Waste Licensed sector and has implemented these assessments at operational scale at over 30 licensed facilities in the following sectors:

An expanding range of environmental risks can give rise to contingent liabilities for organisations as they acquire and divest businesses and property portfolios.  Environmental legislation continues to be enacted and regulators have increased enforcement activity due to high profile losses that have impacted the public purse.  This is clearly apparent from the:

ERS provides commercially focused advice to industrial and public sector clients who have contaminated land portfolios to manage, including the:

ERS acts as an Independent Consultant for XL Insurance, one of the largest specialist carriers of Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) Insurance. Shane Herlihy acts in two capacities for XL:

ERS provides specialist technical support to Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of major policies and plans and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of projects in the fields of Soil, Geology, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Resources.Shane Herlihy has acted as a Project Director for large scale EIA projects and has lead the hydrogeological impact assessment for several complex projects that were defended successfully at Oral Hearing, including the Fingal Landfill Project.  Shane currently sits on a specialist panel within the Institute of Geologists of Ireland that is updating the Institute’s professional guidelines on the assessment of impacts to soil and geology during EIA.