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Author: Best, John R., Author: Dao, Elizabeth, Author: Churchill, Ryan, Author: Cosco, Theodore D
Date created: 2020-11-17
Panelists:Riki Ott is a very well known oil spill expert and author. She has a Ph.D (1985) from the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington, WA, on the effects of heavy metals on benthic invertebrates. She is Co-director of Ultimate Civics, a project of Earth Island Institute. She was an Expert witness in the State of Alaska on certain issues relating to effects, fate and transportation of marine oil spills, and environmentally sensitive areas in the Copper River Delta. She co-founded and was Vice-chair of Oiled Regions of Alaska Foundation (2001–2009) to help Exxon Valdez oil spill claimants with financial management and charitable giving to rebuild oiled communities. She was on site of the Exxon Valdez spill 26 years ago. She is particularly well versed on the use of dispersants such as Corexit.Anita M. Burke holds a Bachelors of Science in Environmental Science and Physics from Northland College, where she was recently awarded their Alumni Environmental Achievement Award. At the University of Minnesota, Ms. Burke completed graduate course work in Physics. Anita has extensive experience responding to and restoring ecosystems ravaged by large scale industrial and natural disasters. Her emergency response experience includes: EXXON Valdez; Shell Refinery – Fidalgo Bay, Washington; Texaco Refinery – Bakersfield California; Ms. Burke served as General Manager and Senior Project Manager for the waste management and on-land site assessment activities associated with the clean up of the EXXON Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. She also served as the Chairperson of the Anchorage, Alaska Hazardous Materials Commission and Chair of the Anchorage Local Emergency Planning Committee under SARA Title III. Ms. Burke also managed ENSR Consulting and Engineering’s Anchorage, Alaska Hazardous Waste Services Division for three years, where she developed an expertise in arctic exploration and production spill response and environmental issue management. In 2001, Ms. Burke left her career in the oil and gas industry due to complications and health. She has been on the frontlines of some of the world’s most devastating oil spills. She will share her insight into the health effects, ecosystem impacts, and how we can survive and thrive amidst the trauma of the English Bay Oil Spill. She is a trained Incident Commander and holds numerous health and safety certifications.Professor Doug McArthur, Director, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University. Prior to joining SFU’s Public Policy Program as a founding member in 2003, Doug McArthur was Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the University of British Columbia. His areas of research and teaching include public policy theory and process, government management, forest and resources policy, First Nations policy and self-government, as well as negotiations and strategic planning.Karen G.Wristen is Executive Director of Living Oceans Society, a non-profit ocean conservation organization based in Sointula, B.C. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a law degree from Osgoode Hall. She has worked in the environmental movement in British Columbia since 1994. Karen joined the staff of Living Oceans in 2012 after serving as its Treasurer since 1998. Living Oceans is Canada’s largest organization working exclusively on marine conservation. She took on the Energy & Climate Change portfolio and has been actively involved in the assessments of the Northern Gateway and TransMountain pipeline and tanker proposals, working directly with expert witnesses, reviewing and preparing evidence for those hearings. Living Oceans provided expert evidence on, inter alia, oil tankers, oil spill response, the fate and behaviour of diluted bitumen in the marine environment and the international oil spill compensation regime. She has also provided input to the Province of British Columbia on its proposed land-based oil spill response regime. She is dedicated to protecting the Salish Sea!
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Gandesha, Samir, Author: Samples, Shirley, Author: Siegel, Audrey, Author: George-Hollis, Taylor, Author: McArthur, Doug, Author: Ott, Riki, Author: Burke, Anita, Author: Wristen, Karen G.
Date created: 2015-04-29
Author: Shergill, Sandy, Author: Forsman-Phillips, Lindsay, Author: Nicol, Anne-Marie
Date created: 2021-05-20
Author and educator David Chang of SFU's Faculty of Education joins Am Johal for a conversation about what it means to live an ethical life during the Anthropocene — an epoch marked by the monumental environmental impact of human activity. David is co-editor of a recently published collection of scholarly and creative essays, A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene.He and Am discuss themes in Ecological Virtues, including Aristotle's notions of virtue ethics, and the grounding of virtue ethics in other thought traditions. They also speak about David's colleagues' contributions to the book that deal with death literacy and the process of forging soulful connection with places through poetry.Resources:— A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene (University of Regina Press, 2020): https://uofrpress.ca/Books/A/A-Book-of-Ecological-Virtues—"What Are Your 'Ecological Virtues'?" - review from The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/09/22/What-Are-Your-Ecological-Virtues/
Author: David Chang, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Fiorella Pinillos, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alex Abahmed
Date created: 2021-03-02
Anjali is a climate justice activist, communicator and organizer. She works to strengthen climate change messaging and discourse in Canada by centring the stories of those on the front lines of the climate crisis. She brings a strong justice lens to climate change messaging and keeps her work connected to social movements that have been demanding climate justice in the Global South for decades. Anjali is Climate Justice Lead at Sierra Club BC and Sectoral Organizer with the newly formed Climate Emergency Unit.Resources: - Sierra Club BC: sierraclub.bc.ca/- Climate Emergency Unit: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/- Padma Centre for Climate Justice: medium.com/@padmaclimate- West Coast Environmental Law: www.wcel.org/
Author: Anjali Appadurai, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-09-07