Environmental and social professionals, helping clients increase clarity and confidence to make informed decisions that support sustainable development.
Our nimble and accomplished team has decades of experience working with and for developers, First Nations, governments, and non-profits.
We help our clients focus their priorities, translate words into plans, and turn plans into action to get our partners where they want to go.
We are practitioners who have worked to push the leading edge of environmental assessment, and we are excited to work with you.
Marc is the Director of Qortado and brings over 25 years of experience working with the mining industry across the mining life cycle in Canada and abroad. Marc combines his technical background with his understanding of clients’ business objectives to deliver concrete outcomes to advance projects. He has led complex ESIAs and EA processes including for the Jansen Potash Project (Saskatchewan), Hope Bay Gold Project (Nunavut), Ekati Diamond Mine expansions (Northwest Territories), Goro Nickel Project (New Caledonia), Eskay Creek Revitalization Project (British Columbia). He has also worked extensively to support environmental compliance with operating mines, environmental due diligence, and on mine closure planning and post closure, including mine closure planning at the Island Copper site in BC and the Ekati Diamond Mine. He was previously VP at Rescan Environmental, Senior Partner and Managing Partner with ERM Canada, and board director of the Tahltan ERM Environmental Management (TEEM) joint venture, and was recently a member of Skeena Resources owner’s team advancing the Eskay Creek Revitalization Project in British Columbia which is the first project to proceed through the EA process with a decision-making agreement under Section 7 of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
Jackie has well over 25 years’ experience in the execution of assessments and other regulatory applications for several of Canada’s largest development projects: primarily mining and energy projects in British Columbia. She is well-versed in current and evolving best practices and standards for impact assessment, including the policy and regulatory contexts in which such assessments are conducted across Canada and internationally. She has contributed to key guidance and approach documents at the municipal, provincial, and federal level, including serving as part of the practitioner’s focus group for the British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Office guidance on the 2018 Environmental Assessment Act, and leading research on regional assessment best practices on behalf of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. She has extensive experience as a senior reviewer of major regulatory applications, as well as with due diligence reviews of mining and oil and gas projects for confidential clients. She has presented evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment in their review of Canada’s Impact Assessment Act. She has led multiple independent third-party reviews for Indigenous Nations. Her research focuses are methodologies for cumulative effects assessment and practicable approaches for incorporating Gender-based Analysis into impact assessment.
Jordan has 15 years of experience leading social science and impact assessment research. He has direct experience across many sectors including mining, oil and gas, transmission, ports and marine shipping, rail, and road infrastructure. He has extensive experience supporting clients to identify and achieve their objectives by leading innovative social science research and has collaborated on projects with over 100 Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada, focusing on baseline study design and implementation and the assessment of project impacts on Indigenous rights and interests. His research and publications cover a diversity of topics including the implications of socio-demographic shifts in natural resource governance; traditional and ecological knowledge in environmental assessment contexts; conservation planning; small-scale fisheries management and protected areas; developing and measuring socio-economic indicators of wellbeing; conservation under climate change; and more. Jordan is also highly proficient in stakeholder engagement and facilitation, and has managed numerous data collection efforts using interviews, surveys, site visits, focus groups, and workshops.
Ever curious, his current interests include Indigenous-led assessment; psycho-social impact assessment; and marine and terrestrial Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas.
Jason has 20 years of experience as a water resources geoscientist. He has has built and led both technical and project based delivery teams. He has been accountable for the planning, preparation and delivery of environmental assessments, complex permit applications, reclamation and closure plans, environmental construction monitoring, modelling studies, and baseline data collection programs. This has included significant project work in British Columbia, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan. A few key highlights have included:
Jason loves inter-disciplinary work and engagement related to synthesizing technical information to increase understanding for all audiences.
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