Managing an Environmental Crisis – From Hot Calls to the Court House

Managing an Environmental Crisis – From Hot Calls to the Court House

Presenter:   Brad Gilmour (Bennett Jones LLP)

Date:              May 16, 2017

Time:              12 - 1pm

Location:     Conference Room ‘A’, Husky Conference Centre, Calgary, AB

                             Plus 30 level, 707-8th Avenue SW (take the escalator up two flights

Webinar:      https://albertabiology.adobeconnect.com/hotcalls/

  CCP:              This presentation entitles ASPB members to earn 1 Professional Development Hour

                            Registration is not required for this event

Description:

Discuss the four phases of managing a major spill:

1. Preventative measures (i.e. ensuring that policies and procedures are in place to prevent the spill);

2. The initial response (first 72 hours) of ensuring proper reporting, initiating clean-up, dealing with regulators, media, insurers etc;

3. Dealing with the investigation; and

4. Going to trial.

Biography:

Brad Gilmour is head of Bennett Jones' regulatory department and co-head of the environmental department. His practice focuses primarily on environmental, energy, regulatory and aboriginal law.

He has significant experience in facility approval applications associated with a broad range of energy, natural resource, chemical, petrochemical, hydro, oil sands, bio-fuel, wind and other industry types. Brad appears before the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board, the Alberta Energy Regulator (formerly, the Energy Resources Conservation Board), the Alberta Utilities Commission, the Natural Resources Conservation Board and the National Energy Board. Brad also regularly advises clients concerning regulatory compliance issues, spills, contaminated sites and environmental prosecutions.

Before entering the practice of law, he worked in Calgary as an environmental consultant conducting environmental liability assessments and site remediation programs.

Brad writes and speaks on topics concerning environmental and regulatory law. As well, he has taught courses on environmental law and occupational health and safety law for the University of Calgary, Athabasca University, and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

Brad is the past chair of the Canadian Prairie and Northern section of the Air and Waste Management Association and a past chair of the southern environmental section of the Canadian Bar Association.

The ASPB is not responsible for the content of this presentation; the information and views expressed by the presenter(s) are their own.