Mr. Adams represents the environmental and consumer advocacy organization, Energy Probe, as Executive Director. Energy Probe is a charitable organization that promotes resource conservation, environmental sustainability, democratic decision-making processes, and economic efficiency for Canada's energy sectors. He also works for the consulting firm Borealis Energy Research Association. He was appointed by the Ontario Government to the Ontario Market Design Committee, charged with developing the initial rules for Ontario’s new competition-oriented electricity market. He is now an independent director of Ontario’s Independent Electricity Market Operator, responsible for coordinating the operation of Ontario’s power system. Mr. Adams is an advisor and investigator with the Environmental Bureau of Investigation, a citizens-based organization dedicated to investigating and prosecuting pollution crimes. Mr. Adams specializes in environmental and economic analysis of the electricity and natural gas sectors. His research interests include competition and privatization options for electric power utilities, nuclear safety, incentive regulation for natural monopolies, efficient conservation and renewable energy policies, and expansion of natural gas deregulation. He has a bachelor of science degree and a master's degree in environmental studies. Mr. Dillenbeck worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy for nearly 21 years and continues to work as a professional biologist. He appeared as an expert witness in many prosecutions involving violations of environmental legislation. His expertise includes the impact of discharges of materials to aquatic environments, surface water quality, the zebra mussel introduction in the Great Lakes, and several types of aquatic nuisances (fish kills, algae blooms, etc.). As a river systems biologist for nine years, he was in charge of all phases of point source discharge surveys. The point sources surveyed included industrial discharges and process effluents, water and waste water treatment facilities and waste disposal sites. Mr. Dillenbeck holds a Honours bachelor degree in biology and is a member of the North American Benthological Society and of the Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists. Mr. David Kerr spent 27 years in operations with Ontario's Environment Ministry. From 1985 to 1997, as a senior officer in the Investigation and Enforcement Branch, Mr. Kerr conducted and directed hundreds of investigations. Over the past several years, he has also assisted Environment Canada and the governments of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in staff training and enforcement program development. In 1993, Mr. Kerr accompanied a federal delegation to Mexico City to discuss tactics and strategies of environmental compliance. Currently a self-employed environmental consultant, Mr. Kerr is a frequent lecturer and panelist on regulatory controls in environmental protection, including the responsibilities of corporate officers and directors. Hari Sharma, Ph.D. Nuclear Chemistry Dr. Sharma has been a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo since 1968. Previous to his academic career, Dr. Sharma worked for the Atomic Energy Establishment Trombay (AEET) in Bombay, India. His experience includes the design and management of radiochemical research laboratory and the standardization of analysis methods for uranium, plutonium and other alpha emitters. Dr. Sharma has published over fifty papers and books and more than thirty declassified reports. His current research interests include the fission of heavy elements, the migration and diffusion of toxic radionuclides, and the biological effects of exposure to low frequency electric and magnetic fields. |
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