Key Management
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Clem Pelletier | George Poling | Pierre Pelletier | Deborah Muggli | Linda Woo
Mr. Pelletier is a process chemist/metallurgist by training with fourteen years in industry and twenty-five years in resource-related environmental consulting. He has dedicated his entire professional career to the practice and dissemination of sound environmental principles in the resource industry. Since 1981, Mr. Pelletier served as a consultant to a number of international mining companies, to assist with feasibility studies, conceptual design, project development, environmental licensing and project management. Mr. Pierre Pelletier graduated from the University of Montana School of Mines with a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering. Before joining Rescan, Pierre spent five years as a Senior Environmental Engineer for BHP Copper at Minera Escondida in Chile. Mr. Pelletier's experience includes the development, implementation and management of Escondida's environmental program at its Coloso port (10 km south of Antofagasta), concentrate dewatering and ammonia leach facility. He was also responsible for several Environmental Impact Statements and Declarations as well as the development and implementation of an environmental management system (based on ISO 14000). Mr. Pelletier has also developed a waste oil recovery and utilization system, dust control and air surveillance systems, as well as environmental solutions for well field pumping and water recovery from tailings storage facilities. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Mr. Pelletier is able to seamlessly coordinate efforts between North American environmental expertise and South American mining operations. Dr. Muggli has a broad background in marine and freshwater science. She has been involved in Environmental Assessments, including cumulative effects assessments. In addition to designing and implementing major monitoring programs, Dr. Muggli has also designed and implemented specialized environmental programs in Canada and abroad. She has a diverse technical background, which allows her to design and manage multidisciplinary environmental programs, including such disciplines as hydrology, water quality, aquatic biology, fisheries, meteorology, and wildlife. Her background includes analytical chemistry as well as aquatic ecology, giving her a valuable understanding of contaminant transport and potential ecological effects. One of her research specialties is algae physiology, which is particularly useful in monitoring, as algae can often be used as early warning indicators before other organisms and habitats are affected. Dr. Muggli has participated and managed environmental programs in British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, the East Greenland Sea, the NE Pacific Ocean, Alaska, British Columbia, Ontario, Labrador, Chile, New Caledonia, and Indonesia. She has written and organized technical reports on large multidisciplinary projects, oceanographic surveys, arctic limnology and toxicity bioassays.
Ms. Woo has over ten years of experience working in project accounting. She has provided project accounting, budgeting and contract forecasting management services for numerous Rescan projects. Linda is in charge of the accounting, finance and administration of the Rescan offices in North America.
Dr. Poling is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Mining and Mineral Process Engineering at the University of British Columbia, where he taught from 1968 to 1997 and for two years was also Research Coordinator for the B.C. Mining Association. He is one of Canada's leading experts in mineral processing and environmental management of mining operations with special emphasis on effluent treatment, tailings disposal, waste solids handling, land reclamation and acid drainage control. Dr. Poling has been an associate consultant with Rescan Environmental Services Ltd. since its inception and serves (with Clem Pelletier) as a member of the environmental monitoring advisory team which oversees the monitoring program for BHP-Utah's Island Copper Mine on Vancouver Island. Dr. Poling has also been involved in research programs addressing acid drainage concerns at the Island Copper Mine and several other mines in British Columbia, and has published numerous papers on mineral processing and acid drainage control. Dr. Poling retired in June 2007 and remains an Associate of Rescan for special projects. |
