Senior Affiliates

Environmental Assessment

Social Assessment

Anneliese Grieve, B.A. (Geog), M.E.S. (Env Plan)
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Stakeholder Engagement, Facilitation

Anneliese is a recognized expert in the application of environmental assessment and decision-making processes for the approval of complex and controversial projects and has specialized expertise in conducting social impact assessments and stakeholder engagement. She has over 25 years’ experience predominantly as an environmental consultant for industry; governments; Aboriginal Communities, Non-Governmental Organizations; and interest groups. Some of her most interesting work has involved creating regulatory strategies that redeploy regulated environmental and decision-making processes to meet the needs of the project, the affected communities, and the proponent while also meeting all legal and regulatory requirements.

Anneliese has managed some of the most controversial projects including landfills and gas plants and has provided strategic advice to utilities and corporations on how to manage stakeholder risks throughout their project planning activities She is a trained facilitator with expertise in bringing diverse stakeholder groups together to find common ground and shared values in order to identify a path forward.

Stephen H. Janes, B.A.Sc. (Eng) M.Sc.(Plan), P.Eng., MCIP
Planning, Social Impact Assessment and First Nations

Steve has over 45 years engineering and planning consulting experience both Canada and overseas. HE worked for a large engineering consulting company for 15 years then formed his own environmental planning firm which continued in operation for over 30 years. He worked closely with the Federal Government staff to set up the initial Canadian EA process (FEARP). He concurrently worked with the Banff Alberta Centre to conduct reviews of Canadian Projects that were perceived to represent serious impacts to the environment.

Steve worked on the reorganization of Ontario Government structures for lands adjacent to Toronto. Legislation was adopted at the Provincial level to create the York Region and this necessitated the extension of water supply, sewage treatment systems to serve new urban development and the necessary transportation linkages associated with this “growth”. In Elgin County he served as the Provincial Local Government Commissioner and was involved in redrawing the boundaries of the local municipalities and in determining the organizations required to provide services for the new municipalities. He undertook the development of a long term solution for Waterloo Region’s solid wastes.

Steve has worked on environmental projects for several First Nations including Kettle and Stony Point FN, Long Lake #58 FN and Matttawa FN. Steve served as President of the London Development Institute from 2000 – 2011 and now serves as Secretary-Treasurer.

Valerie Story, BA Hon (English), BSc Hon (Bio), MSc (Bio)
Environmental Assessment and Technical Editing

Valerie worked at an environmental consulting firm for over 25 years and was Manager of Environmental Assessment (EA) Studies for 10 years. Her areas of focus were EAs, regulatory requirements and compliance, public consultation, and most recently, human health assessments (physical, mental and social well-being) within the context of EAs.

She managed many large scale EAs under federal, provincial, municipal, and international regulations involving nuclear facilities, mining operations, siting of industrial facilities, siting of a marina on an international waterway, and development of an international EA training program. Besides project management, one of her key roles was the development, writing and editing of reports involving many different technical disciplines to ensure their readability and usefulness to the client and often to the general public.

Zivorad Radonjic, B.Sc.
Air Quality and Meteorology

Zivorad specializes in meteorology, atmospheric dispersion modelling, and air quality and is generally considered one of the few elite dispersion modellers in North America. He has been involved with a wide verity of applications such as industrial facilities, uranium mines, quarries, refineries, and nuclear power plants. He has also performed specific modelling for releases such as: cooling towers, substances heavier than air.

Stephen Kuchma B.Sc. (Biology), P.Eng.
Air, Noise and Waste

Steve has worked in the environmental consulting field for almost 20 years. He specializes in environmental air and noise compliance including acoustic Assessments/Audits and Noise Abatement Action Plans as well as Emission Summary and Dispersion Modelling Reports in support of Environmental Compliance Approval applications, ambient and indoor environmental monitoring (air quality and noise). and sampling stack emissions. Steve has experience using various atmospheric dispersion and acoustic modelling programs. He also focusses on solid non-hazardous waste audits including O.Reg.102 Waste Audits and Waste Reduction Work Plans.

Steve has completed air quality, noise and waste projects for a variety of municipal and IC&I clients, including, but not limited to, chemical, foundry, aerospace, automotive, microchip, food, textile, printing, secondary metal smelting, printing, health care, ready mix cement, asphalt plants, waste treatment and wastewater treatment.

Tim Adamson, M.Sc., B.Sc., EP
Climate Change and Renewable Energy

Tim has over 30 years’ experience in the environmental, energy and climate change sectors. Most recently, he was the Manager of Sustainable Energy for Enbridge, in which capacity he helped develop Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction targets and was instrumental in helping deploy a GHG in-house carbon data management system. He was also responsible for the management of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) questionnaire for the company and served on the Canadian Advisory Committee of the CDP. As Vice Chair of the Climate Change Steering Committee he also provided strategic advice to senior management on the business implications of GHG emissions.

Since leaving Enbridge Tim was contracted by the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change to help evaluate the Federal Government’s sector by sector GHG regulations on Ontario businesses. He has served as Chair of the Canadian Energy Partnership for Environmental Innovation (CEPEI), a non-profit organization of all Canadian natural gas companies operating under the auspices of the Canadian Gas Association to help develop defensible GHG inventory methodologies and environmental data for the sector. Prior to his time at Enbridge, Tim was involved in environmental consulting in the coal mining and overseas agricultural consulting areas in such places as Nigeria and Mozambique for the African Development Bank.

Douglas Russell
Climate Change and Energy

Doug is a senior executive and entrepreneur with a 40 year career equally split between government and the private sector dealing with environmental issues at the most senior level. In government, he led Canadian delegations to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCCC) and headed Environment Canada’s policy work on climate change and air issues such as acid rain, smog and stratospheric ozone depletion. In the private sector, he founded GCSI – Global Change Strategies International Inc., which became recognized as one of Canada’s leading environmental consulting firms. Projects included the development of a global climate change strategy for the Shell Group, climate policy design for the federal government, capacity building related to climate change in a variety of developing countries in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa and Asia. He was also a Managing Director of Natsource LLC, one of the world’s largest carbon trading firms. There he provided risk assessment and carbon management services to a number of large corporations in the Canadian resource extraction sector and represented Natsource interests at the senior levels of the Canadian government and with senior delegates to the UN FCCC process. Doug currently provides consulting services to a number of Canadian firms with exposure to carbon pricing. He also advises governments and firms on the design of carbon trading systems, market entry strategies, and energy policy.

James R. Doyle, Ph.D. (Chem and Env Toxicology)
Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment, Toxicology

Jamie has more than 35 years of experience in the nuclear, petrochemical and mining industries, leading multi-disciplinary teams in the research and communication of environmental, ecological and public health issues. He was a Principal and senior scientist at a major Canadian environmental consulting company, where he specialized in nuclear projects and environmental assessments pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. He led project teams directed at remediating waste management storage for Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) and was responsible for hazardous material management at Syncrude Canada’s oil sands mining and upgrading operations. He was a Post Doctoral Visiting Fellow at Health Canada with his research focused on determining the role of soil ingestion in human health risk assessments of contaminated sites, assessing the exposure of Aboriginal and other communities to contaminants in soil and in indoor dust.

Jamie has participated in international technical committees on nuclear waste with the International Atomic Energy Agency and NATO. Currently, he is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the AEHS Foundation Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, & Energy, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Isobel Heathcote, B.Sc. (Bio), M.S. (Wat Res), PhD (Wat Res)
Water Resources, Watershed Restoration and Public Engagement

Isobel is a retired professor of Environmental Engineering and Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph, where she was also Dean of Graduate Studies from 1999 to 2008. Her employment history is diverse, encompassing employment in both the public and private sectors in addition to academic appointments at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. She has served on many provincial, national, and international advisory committees, and from 2001 to 20016 was Canadian Co-Chair of the International Joint Commission’s Science Advisory Board.

Isobel is the author of Integrated Watershed Management: Principles and Practice and Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet (Canadian Edition), and hundreds of scholarly articles, policy analyses, and consultant reports. She holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

John N. Hilton, M.A.Sc. (Chem Eng), P.Eng.
Water, Wastewater and Contaminated Sites

John has over 45 years of experience, with 40 years in environmental consulting. He was President of a 40 person environmental engineering firm between 2008 and 2015. He provides consulting services in water quality evaluation, treatment technology investigation and process design for water and wastewater treatment systems. He has been responsible for drinking water supply quality assessment and assessment and design of small drinking water treatment operations

John has also been responsible for process design of soil and groundwater in situ and ex situ remediation processes; contaminated site clean-up and facility decommissioning projects; and, industrial wastewater and landfill leachate treatment, including: waste stream characterization, treatment technology evaluation, treatment process design, preparation of specifications and contract documents, construction supervision and process start-up.

John G. Payne, B.A. Hons (Geology), M.Sc. (Geology), D.I.C., M.Sc. (Eng. Geology),P.Eng.
Water, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Contaminated Sites.

John has over 40 years of international and Canadian consulting experience. He was Principal Engineer and Director of International Projects and previously Ontario manager for audits, environmental site assessment, risk and remediation for a major Canadian engineering company with a similar role previously for two other major engineering companies. He had overall responsibility for the technical and management direction to a staff of environmental specialists. In recent years, he has worked extensively on international projects, involving international transboundary water quality and water productivity, as well as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), particularly PCBs and the Stockholm Convention, in several countries. This work had led to a number of contributions to the United Nations World Water Development Reports a well as winning a Canadian Consulting Engineering Award of Excellence in the international category. Previously, John’s work focused on environmental site assessments, groundwater quality, site decommissioning, cleanup and remedial design and implementation. He has managed numerous large-scale site investigation and cleanup projects in Canada and overseas involving inorganic and organic soil and groundwater contamination as well as PCBs and hazardous substances.

James Taylor, BA. Hon (Geog)
Environmental Assessment and Aboriginal Consultation

James brings a 30-plus year track record of policy development and strategic direction in Aboriginal affairs, environmental assessment/protection and intergovernmental relations. Having been in management roles for federal government organizations like the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Environment Canada, as well as environmental specialist roles with the Government of Alberta, he is a seasoned professional who has guided and overseen successful projects and initiatives characterized by policy, operational and legal complexity.

Notable among these are: policy framework and guiding principles for the integration of Aboriginal consultation with environmental assessment process of major projects under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012; Government of Canada’s Interim Guidelines on Aboriginal Consultation and Accommodation for federal officials (2008) comprised of policy direction and operational advice to ensure the Crown’s legal duty to consult Aboriginal groups is fulfilled; curriculum development and delivery of training course on Aboriginal Consultation and EA to external clients including industry, Aboriginal groups, federal and provincial/territorial government officials and legal community; management of process of development and implementation of the Comprehensive Study List regulation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (1995); and, successful negotiation of environmental assessment harmonization agreements with Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan (1993-94).

Steve Burgess, MSc (Renewable Resource Management)
Environmental Assessment and Fisheries Protection

Steve has over 35 years extensive experience in the development and application of environmental legislation and policy, primarily related to environmental assessment and fish habitat management. His roles for the federal government have included Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Director General, Ecosystem Programs Policy), Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (Executive Director, Project Assessment and Regional Operations), and National Energy Board (Chief, Regulatory Affairs). Prior to that he spent four years at an environmental consulting firm preparing environmental assessments for major hydroelectric and pipeline projects.

He led the CEA Agency’s involvement in the establishment of the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project, and more recently he managed DFO’s program related to the review and 2012 amendments to the fisheries protection provisions of the Fisheries Act.

Patrice LeBlanc, BSc, MEng
Environmental Assessment and Fisheries Protection

Patrice has over 45 years of experience with the development of policies, laws, regulations, and practices in Canada and overseas. He has held senior positions with SENES Consultants (Senior Environmental Assessment and Fisheries Protection Specialist); Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Director, Operations, Policy and Program); Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (Director General, Policy and Program Development); Environmental Management Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (Managing Director and CEO); Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology Commission (Senior Environmental Assessment Advisor); Ontario Hydro (Senior Environmental Specialist); Nova Scotia Power Corporation (Senior Environmental Engineer and Senior Advisor, Environment). . He is an editor of the book Managing the Impacts of Human Activities on Fish Habitat: the Governance, Practices and Science (American Fisheries Society, 2015).

R.G. (Bob) Elliott, R.P.F.
Forestry, Resource Management

Bob is a Registered Professional Forester with over 30 years of leadership and senior management experience in government and forest industry organizations. He has provided consulting services to the forest industry sector and to government agencies since 2005. Prior to that, he was employed in progressively responsible positions with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and two major forest products companies. He is focused on getting results and providing value to the client. Bob’s skills include project planning, business plan development, raw material supply mechanisms, contract negotiation, and industry – government relations. He has significant experience in budget development, cost control and human resource management. He has been involved in several major “change management” initiatives during his career including major government reorganizations, and business re design projects in the private and public sectors.

Erik Wang, BSc. MScF. R.P.F.
Forestry, Forest Management

Erik’s 35 year career as a Registered Professional Forester has included positions in industry, academia and consulting sectors across Canada. Throughout his career his primary area of expertise has been in the field of quantitative assessment of the impacts of forest management strategies on natural resource values, and he is a recognized leader in the development and application of new methodologies to address these issues. As a private consultant since 1990, he has lent his expertise to a broad range of initiatives, including forest management planning on private and public forest lands, analysis of provincial and federal natural resource land use policies and strategies, and timber supply assessments associated with large forest land transactions. This experience included 15 years as a senior consultant and executive with a large natural resource consulting firm based in Western Canada. Since relocating to Ontario in 2009, Erik has continued his consulting activities, as well as involvement in several provincial forestry-related advisory committees.

Jean Lowry, B.Sc. (Phys. Geog.), M.Sc. (Resources and Env.)
International and Sustainable Development

Jean has over 30 years of Canadian and international experience, 15 of those years living overseas while managing and consulting on multi-million dollar development projects funded by a variety of donors. She is a senior executive with a successful track record in leading, developing and designing international development projects to address issues related to poverty, sustainable economic growth, environmental management, climate change, empowerment of youth and women, agriculture and agribusiness, capacity building and food security. She was the official representative of an international institute to two countries in the Caribbean and served at senior levels in a number of NGOs in Canada. Jean has extensive knowledge and understanding of the key factors underlying effective development both internationally and in Canada.

Wayne Patterson, BSc, MSc (Math.), MSc (Comp. Sci.), PhD (Math.)
Cyber Security and International Development

Wayne is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Howard University in Washington DC. His research interests for many years have been in the field of Cybersecurity, having authored close to 40 papers on that subject in topics such as cryptology, Denial of Service attacks, biometrics, parallel computing, zero knowledge protocols, and behavioral cybersecurity. His textbook on Cryptology was the most widely used in the 1980s and 1990s.

He has also been deeply involved in recent years in advancing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education and research in developing countries. His work is involved collaboration with colleagues in over 50 countries worldwide. Currently he is an advisor on cyber security to the Government of Cameroon, and a visiting faculty member at the Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla in Puebla, Mexico. Previously he was the first Program Manager for Developing Countries at the US National Science Foundation.

Martyn J. Riddle, B.Sc (Eng.), M.Sc (Water Res.), M.Eng (Env. Eng.), P.Eng
Environmental Assessment, Sustainable Development, Risk Management

Martyn has over 40 years of international and Canadian experience as a senior manager and executive in the private and public sectors as a consultant, a regulator, and a staff member of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group. While at IFC he was responsible for the initiation and management of IFC’s Environment and Social Development Department which included development and implementation of IFC’s environment and social Performance Standards, which underpin the internationally accepted Equator Principles (EP). The EP are a global environmental and social benchmark and risk management tool and today approximately 80% of global project financing (about US$160 billion annually) comply with the EP.

Martyn’s specialization includes management of EA studies, project monitoring and compliance, stakeholder engagement and consultation, and risk management for a wide variety of private and public sector clients and projects including in the energy, manufacturing, mining, agribusiness, transportation and financial sectors. Many of these required securing project compliance with the Equator Principles, IFC and World Bank requirements as well as national standards. He has worked on projects in over 75 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Middle East and Europe, with long term residency in 6 countries in Africa, Europe and the Americas.

Jasmine Urisk, B.A. (geomorphology), M. Sc. (Env. Studies), Chartered Director
Environment, Permitting and Training

Jasmine has been actively engaged in the energy and environment sectors for over 30 years. She has managed the Canadian Energy Partnership for Environmental Innovation (CEPEI), an environmental and technology research program for the natural gas industry across Canada since 1995 being responsible for environmental research in the areas of climate change, air quality, renewables, energy efficiency, community energy, and related technologies. This has included projects for greenhouse gas and air emissions estimation, measurement studies, development of management protocols, and emissions inventories.

Jasmine has been responsible for the development and implementation of environmental aspects of projects for pipelines, compressor stations and power generation in Canada and the United States. She has coordinated the environmental permitting for multiple power generating stations since 1989 and continues as senior environmental advisor to power generators on matters related to permitting, mandatory environmental reporting and plant operations. She has also undertaken public consultation programs, route/site selection and assessment studies, environmental operator training and manual preparation.

In 2008, Jasmine received an industry leadership award from the Ontario Energy Association and in 2010, she was the recipient of the prestigious Women of Distinction Award from the YMCA-YWCA of Guelph in the business and professions category.

Carl R. Jones, B. Eng. (Elec), MBA (Marketing and Finance)
Quality Management Systems, ISO 9001 Assistance

Carl’s career spans over 35 years in the field of Quality Management and Quality Assurance. While an employee of a nuclear utility, his main role was to audit the Quality Program of suppliers of products and services to the nuclear industry, whether in Canada, USA, or Europe. In addition, he represented his employer on CSA writing committees of various Quality standards.
His consulting services encompass the Quality Management of manufacturing organizations, nuclear service companies, and environmental service providers. He also worked with consulting organizations in helping them get ISO 9001 approved. A successful recent project involved preparing all documentation, provide training and implementation assistance for the first Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) project released by OPG within their nuclear plant.

David Besner, B.Sc. Chemical Eng., Ph.D. Civil (Environmental Health) Eng.
EIA, Air Quality, Facilitation/Consultation, Governance

Dave’s career has spanned some 45 years in academia, private industry, government and consulting. He has an extensive background in regulation and standard development both provincially and nationally, and was a member of the Ontario Minister’s ‘Advisory Committee on Transboundary Science’ as well as the International Joint Commission’s ‘International Air Quality Advisory Board’. Dave has participated in EIAs for numerous projects, including power generation plants and petrochemical facilities. He has also facilitated various environmental meetings across Canada, and been involved in numerous public consultation meetings.

Dave is currently active in the management of a major recycling facility, and is the CEO and Chair of the New Brunswick Energy Institute. He is the author of a book entitled “The Control of Sulfur Oxides”.

Bob Beecher, B.A. (Biology), B.Ed.
Sustainable Development, Governance, Natural Resources, Environmental & Organizational Management

Bob’s consulting since 2001 builds upon almost 3 decades of hands-on experience at the local (field), regional, main office, and international levels. His government-related experience includes operational program delivery, regional program coordination and implementation and provincial, federal-provincial-territorial, along with international policy development and delivery, and program development and transfer.

Direct experience includes work in fish and wildlife, water management, conservation authorities, natural heritage, Crown land management, forest management, wildfire and flood management, parks and recreation, main office policy development and coordination, mineral resources management, petroleum and brine resources management, and land use planning. Senior management experience in the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, international development, and the binational Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) includes serving as District Manager; Lake Ontario Manager; Deputy Regional Director; Director, Zimbabwe Natural Resources Management Programme; Director, Great Lakes; Director, Lands and Natural Heritage; Director, Fish and Wildlife; and Executive Secretary, GLFC.

Bob has provided leadership and participation in development and implementation of interjurisdictional strategies and accords, including: 1) serving as Canadian Co-Chair of a Canada-U.S. committee resulting in binational consensus on strengthening amendments to the Joint Strategic Plan for Management of Great Lakes Fisheries; and, 2) participating on the team that developed and negotiated (for ministerial approval) the Agreement on Interjurisdictional Cooperation with Respect to Fisheries and Aquaculture, 1999 (creating the Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers).

Thomas H. Shillington, M. Nat Res Mgmt
Environmental Policy, Technical Writing

Tom is a highly skilled independent policy consultant, with more than 25 years of experi¬ence in the development, analysis and communication of environmental and scientific information. Based in Ottawa, he has consulted with governments, international organizations and corporations in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean, specializing in leading team-based responses to emerging public policy challenges. Major assignments have included serving as a senior analyst and writer/editor for the Canada-U.S. International Joint Commission, the National Round Table of the Environment and the Economy, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Natural Resources Canada, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and the World Bank. . He holds a Federal Security Clearance to the Level II Secret level.

Manfred Klein, B.Eng. (Mechanical)
Gas Turbine Applications, Cogeneration, Natural Gas, Air Emissions

Manfred worked 33 years in the Canadian federal government, most recently as Coordinator, Energy and Environment at the Gas Turbine Laboratory of the National Research Council in Ottawa. He spent 16 years with Environment Canada, involved with CCME industrial air emissions guidelines for Gas Turbines and for Cement Kilns, using output-based environmental standards. He also helped to develop new taxation incentives to encourage cogeneration and district energy, provided inputs to environmental assessments, coal plant repowering studies, and organized various industrial training functions on clean energy and gas turbine CHP systems. Prior to that he was with the National Energy Board for 11 years, dealing with natural gas pipeline and compressor station inspection and certification.

Manfred now works as an independent consultant on a wide range of industrial energy and environmental issues. He specializes in technical training for gas turbine applications, cogeneration, natural gas pipelines, and balanced analysis of integrated system solutions to GHGs, air pollution and system reliability. Memberships have included; IAGT Industrial Gas Turbine Applications Committee, ASME/IGTI Gas Turbine Environment & Regulatory Affairs Committee, CogenCanada, and the CEPEI Environmental R&D group of the Canadian Gas Association.

Lori K. Magyar B.A. (Organizational Design)
Environmental, Social and Health

Lori is a Strategic Business Consultant with over 30 years of experience in project management, strategic regulatory and environmental planning, regulatory analysis and compliance, EA/EIA/EIS/ESHIA, and stakeholder engagement, particularly in the oil and gas industry. Her expertise around the world in determining applicability of regulations to projects, development of road maps, forward plans and schedules, management of regulatory and environmental documentation; coordination with federal, state and local agencies; coordination with engineering, procurement and construction contractors, best management practices for industries and management of public involvement activities contribute to the on time startup of facilities operations. She has worked on World Bank projects applying IFC performance standards, environmental, health, and safety guidelines, and equator principles.

Highlights of Lori’s career include participating in oil spill response development activities beginning in 1989 in Alaska; providing environmental services on the Alaskan North Slope, unexploded bomb investigations from WWII and community outreach in the Aleutian Islands; developing environmental management programs for Siberian oil companies through the World Bank; permitting LNG trains in Qatar; preparation of ESHIA documents and routing a pipeline through Chad and Cameroon; receiving a positive conclusion for the Port of Houston Bayport terminal EIS after public meetings with 5,000 attendees; preparation of FERC resource reports for an LNG terminal and pipeline in East Texas; and permitting oil and gas facilities and pipelines around the globe. Other countries she has worked in include Angola, Benin, Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo, England, Gabon, Nigeria, Togo and Venezuela.

Grant Feasby, M.Sc.
Mining and Metallurgy

Grant has over 40 years experience in the mining, minerals and metallurgy sectors specializing in providing expertise in metallurgical processes, operations and environmental management for uranium, industrial minerals, gold and silver, rare earths, tin, base metals and bauxite. He has practical experience as an operations manager and process developer. Grant provides expert assistance to the mining industry, to financial and regulatory institutions as well as to local people in managing environmental issues in a wide range of mineral processing and metallurgical facilities. This has included the assessment and management of radiological risks to people and the natural environment presented by thorium and uranium bearing materials.

Randall A. Knapp, B.A.Sc. (Chem. Eng.), P.Eng.
Mining and Geochemistry

Randy has over 40 years of experience in environmental projects related to the mining industry. He is recognized within the industry for his leadership in assessment of challenging environmental issues and development of cost effective and practical technical solutions. He has authored more than fifty closure plans and has carried out numerous closure due diligence projects across all sectors of the mining industry in Canada and internationally. Randy provides professional advice on strategic planning, management, co-ordination and conceptual design on projects related to mining and industrial wastes. He specializes in mine liability assessment, tailings management, decommissioning and closure, site selection, geochemistry, development of monitoring and response plans, acid generation modelling, risk assessment and effluent treatment. He has helped develop several mine waste sampling manuals for the Mine Environment Neutral Drainage program and a mine water treatment manual for DIAND.

Randy serves on the Faro Independent Review Panel on behalf of the DIAND and the government of Yukon and the Independent Review Panel for the Giant Mine Closure. He also serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for Closure of Northern mines on behalf of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development and the Red Dog Mine Tailings Engineering Review Panel for Teck Cominco Alaska. Randy has participated as an independent peer reviewer on numerous mining projects for both mining companies, intervenor groups and a range of engineering consultants.

Roger Payne; B.Sc. (Civil Eng), P.Eng.
Mining

Roger has almost 50 years local and international experience, (Europe, Africa, North and South America,) much of it in or related to the mining industry, particularly tailings management, mine closure and other related issues. He has worked for consultants, regulators, the United Nations (UN) and for industry from design engineer to site representative, operations manager, project manager to General Manager for uranium, copper, lead, zinc and rare earth elements projects.

Roger was a leading member of the mine closure team (industry, regulators stakeholders including First Nations and NGO’s) ) undertaking the challenging closure and decommissioning of Elliot Lake Uranium Mines (some 13 mines in total) for over 12 years which was concluded successfully. More recently he joined a small team of mining experts assessing the existing mining industry and its legacy in Kosovo, providing guidance to the UN and Europe on issues and priorities. He continues to assist a mine exploration and mining company on the possibility of developing a rare earth minerals project in Ontario.

Steven H. Brown, CHP
Health Physics and Radioactivity

Steve is a certified by the American Board of Health Physics with over 40 years of nuclear industry experience and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of American Academy of Health Physics. He has worked extensively in the commercial nuclear fuel cycle and at large nuclear decommissioning / decontamination projects. Steve is recognized as an expert in environmental, safety and health aspects of uranium facilities and sites and naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM). and has been a member of US and international advisory committees in this regard.. He is currently a member of IAEA’s working group on occupational radiation protection in uranium mines and processing facilities.

Martyn Wash, B. Mech Eng , B.A. Economics and Bus Admin
Nuclear Technology, Nuclear Fuel Cycles & Engineering

Martyn has spent 34 years in most aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle. He started at Nova Scotia Power working in power generation followed by a year at Canadian International Paper doing engineering and project management. After a two year assignment at the Chalk River Laboratories doing post-irradiation fuel characterization he joined Canadian Westinghouse in Port Hope as resident fuel specialist for the production of CANDU, PWR and BWR fuel assemblies. He continued in this role with Zircatec (now Cameco) rising to Vice President doing sales and marketing while project managing numerous overseas assignments in Argentina, Romania, China and Korea. During this time he began the business to supply reactor components and dry storage containers. He was involved in the ITER and the Weapons-to-Ploughshares program.. He took over the Organization of CANDU Industries from 2001-2008 growing it from 38 companies to a respected industry voice of 115 companies. Martyn joined AECL to be the Project Lead for advanced fuel cycles using recycled Uranium and Thorium. He led a team to upgrade the documentation for all 135 technical changes at Bruce Power and continues to consult for Westinghouse, Cameco, Fluor, Fallon Ultrasonics, Laker Energy, Nukem, EnerMotion, Amidyne, and NRCan.

Vladimir Agranat, M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics and Mechanics), Ph.D. (Fluid Dynamics)
Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Vladimir has more than 35 years of CFD experience in academia and industry including 15 years of teaching and research experience and more than 20 years of applied CFD training and consulting in Canada, USA and worldwide. CFD is the use of applied mathematics, physics and computational software to visualize how a gas or liquid flows around the objects (obstacles) and the influence of the gas or liquid to those objects. Vladimir has been using CFD can for environmental applications (plume dispersion and flows around the buildings, stack designs, etc.), or in industrial applications (HVAC design, flows inside the buildings, flows around automobiles, effectiveness of heat exchangers, etc.).

Over the last 20 years, he has been managing and delivering CFD consulting projects in a wide area of applications (environmental, nuclear, energy, fire prevention, risk and safety, HVAC, chemical, etc.). Since 1998, he has been a President and Senior CFD Consultant of a small engineering consulting company providing advanced applied CFD services for clients in Canada, USA and other countries. Also, he has undertaken research on CFD applications at the University of Toronto and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Vladimir is the author of more than 90 technical papers on Fluid Dynamics, Heat/Mass Transfer and Combustion.