ESL Consulting Limited (ESL) specializes in the fields of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), Environmental Management Plans (EMP), Environmental Monitoring Studies (EMS), Environmental Sensitivity Analysis (ESA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Coastal Development & Management, Aquatic Resources Management, Fisheries Impact Assessment, Oceanographic Studies & Modelling, and Hydrology & Water Resource Assessment. Over the past decade, ESL has been involved in community stakeholder engagements as part of ESIA in the Western Region of Ghana primarily with Tullow on the Jubilee and TEN projects, The LONRHO port project at Atuabo, eni Ghana and recently with MEDEA.

ESL is incorporated in Ghana under the company’s code as a limited liability company. The core staff of ESL have been active on the Ghanaian and international environmental scene in the field of impact assessment for several years. The Company boasts of a core of highly-trained high-level manpower resource and several external consultants who are experts in several specific fields related to our core business.

ESL consultants have been involved in several high profile social and environmental impact assessment and monitoring studies, notable among which are the ESIA and EMS of the Keta Sea Defense Works, the ESIA for the West African Gas Pipeline Project.

We are familiar with the social challenges and the emerging new ones with almost all the coastal towns in the Western region, in particular the MMDAs, fishermen and the traditional authorities from Shama to Newtown.

Our firm comprises of social, health and environmental experts including a qualified chartered accountant who manages our finances.

 Policy Statement

Legislative instrument (LI) 1652 and Act 490 of the Parliament of the Republic of Ghana seeks to create a framework for the sustainable development and exploitation of natural renewable and non-renewable resources in Ghana. In line with Ghana’s environmental policies and the World Bank’s policies on sustainable development, ESL seeks to work together with proponents of undertakings (clients) to come to the most environmentally friendly’ way of achieving their developmental objectives.

ESL does this by linking with proponents at the inception stage of projects, conducting rigorous and high quality scientific studies and technical policy reviews on the proposed development, identifying the probable effects of the development on the economy and the environment, advising proponents on best approach method and preparing a comprehensive management and policy plan for the development.

ESL HSE Policy Statement

ESL Consulting is committed to pursuing excellence in everything it does and this includes the management of health and safety whether in the field working or in the office environment.  Read more..

How ESL Achieves its Goals

The modus operandi of ESL is an iterative one, with ESL coming into the project cycle at the inception stage. ESL then conducts a desktop study into the project, mainly made up of research in publications, academic journals, technical papers, grey literature, previous documents into similar or related development, and intensive consultations with stakeholders, interested and affected parties so as to identify the key issues pertaining to the undertaking. ESL then communicates this to the technical and economic analysis teams to assess and identifies the best ways to implement the project.

Organizational & Operational Structure

The normal ESL organizational structure is shown below. Each service or job to be done would have a Project Manager who liaises with the finance and administrative departments and reports to the General Manager. The General Manager reports to the President who in turn reports to the Board of Directors.