Mike Mckernan Email & Phone Number

Winnipeg, Manitoba

Niche firm specializing in strategic management of multidisciplinary environmental planning, assessment licensing/permitting, and monitoring and decommissioning processes for industrial and municipal projects. Expertise covering market sectors from Water (supply, treatment and wastewater management), Mining (siting, environmental baselining, EEM and related compliance monitoring, Aboriginal engagement support and elevated "consultation" support, design and execution-management of Closure Plans, Decommissioning Plans, and Tailings-re-processing Plans; support to Mb. First Nations Mining Economic Development corp [FNMED Inc.]; base metal and gold mines, ), Power Generation (wind, hydro, flare-gas recovery), and Forestry (10- and 20-Yr FMPs, OSB plants, Voluntary Non-Regulatory Initiatives) to Agrochemical (fertilizer plants; potato-, bean- pork- and poultry-processing plants). Substantial work with legal counsel (M&A, divestures, trans-boundary water-project disputes [e.g. US Devils Lake, NAWS, RRWSP projects], Aboriginal People engagement processes, and Board of Directors environmental due diligence). Substantial work in design, facilitation and documentation of public and regulatory-liaison processes, especially as "Dialogue Mediator". Specialized experience in design and execution of multidisciplinary 3rd-Party Peer Review processes.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Part-time contributions to Arctic, sub-Arctic and northern Boreal studies of climate-change effects, especially using remote sensing techniques and especially using engagement with Northern Peoples.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Principal and Practice Leader of the Winnipeg Environmental Sciences team of ~30 staff from May 2010 until June 2013, then Principal/Integrated Regional Business Development Coordinator until ~ June 2014. Then full-time (3days/week) Principal/ sectoral Business Development and Services QA Mentor.

Winnipeg, Canada Area

Co-founder of Manitoba's first full-service multidisciplinary environmental consultancy, which joined Stantec Consulting Inc. in May 2010, after 2 decades of successful service to the public- and private sector markets.

Master'S Degree, Botany/Plant Biology, A

Plant Ecology, Grassland Plant Taxonomy, Biometrics; Effects of Military Training on Floristic and Soil Attributes

Master'S Degree, Environmental Studies

Environmental Policy; Environmental Law; Experimental Wastewater Treatment (eg. engineered wetlands, effluent irrigation), Environmental.

Bachelor'S Degree, Liberal Arts And Sciences

English Literature, Philosophy, Biology, Architecture