Energy Probe

EMPLOYMENT

1991-present - Senior Research Associate, Borealis Energy Research Association

1985-1991 - Director of Nuclear Research, Energy Probe

1978-1985 - Nuclear Power Researcher, Energy Probe

1976-1978 - Lecturer, University of Toronto

1974-1976 - Visiting Lecturer, University of Toronto

1971-1974 - Instructor, Princeton University

1970-1971 - Teaching Assistant (classroom instructor), Princeton University

HEARING AND COURT EXPERIENCE: FEDERAL BODIES

Atomic Energy Control Board (appearances before the board)

1997 - Renewal of the Operating Licence of Pickering Nuclear Generating Station

1990 - Radiation Standards and Health Studies

1980 - Proposed Amendments to the Operating Licence of Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station

Federal Environmental Assessment Review Process

1990-1997 - Nuclear Fuel Waste Management and Disposal Concept Environmental Assessment Review

Federal Standing Committee on Natural Resources

1996 - Bill C-23 to Amend the Atomic Energy Control Act

Federal Standing Committee on Energy, Mines and Resources

1992 - Environmental Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Nuclear Industry

1998 - Economics of Nuclear Power in Canada

Federal Standing Committee on Environment and Forestry

1987 - High-Level Nuclear Wastes

Federal Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development

1994 - Review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

1986-1987 - Working Group on Conservation and Renewable Energy (member)

Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources

2000 - Nuclear Energy Issues, Reactor Safety

1999 - Nuclear Energy Issues, General

Special and Ad Hoc Federal Bodies

1999-2000 - Environmental Choice Program, Electricity Guideline (low impact electricity generation, "Green Power"), Guideline Review Committee (member)

1990-1994 - Sitting Task Force on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal (invited speaker in many host and candidate communities)

1987-1988 - Energy Options: A Canadian Dialogue (invited speaker at several workshops and meetings)

1987 - Sitting Process Task Force on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal (invited participant at several

workshops and meetings)

HEARING AND COURT EXPERIENCE: PROVINCIAL BODIES

Ontario Energy Board: Hearings

1997 - EBRO 495: Consumers Gas Rate Hearing

1994 - HR 22: Ontario Hydro's Rates and Rate Structures

1994 - EBRO 487: Consumers Gas Rate Hearing

1992 - HR 21: Ontario Hydro's Rates and Rate Structures

1991-1993 - EBO 169: Integrated Resource Planning for Natural Gas Distribution Companies

1991 - HR 20: Ontario Hydro's Rates and Rate Structures

1990 - HR 19: Part 1: Ontario Hydro's Rates and Rate Structures

1982 - HR 11: Ontario Hydro's Rates and Rate Structures

1982 - Consumers Gas Rate Structure

1981 - HR 10: Ontario Hydro's Rates and Rate Structures

1980 - HR 9: Ontario Hydro's Rates and Rate Structures

Ontario Energy Board: Associated Committees

2001-2002 - Enbridge Consumers Gas Shared Savings Mechanism Audit Subcommittee (member)

1995-present - Union Gas Demand-Side Management Consultative Group (member)

1994-present - Enbridge Consumers Gas Demand-Side Management Consultative Group (member)

1994-1995 - Collaborative on Externalities for Natural Gas Integrated Resource Planning in Ontario

Environmental Assessment Board

1990-1993 - Environmental Assessment Hearing of Ontario Hydro's Demand/Supply Plan

Consolidated Hearing Board

1982-1986 - Environmental Assessment of Ontario Hydro's Southwest Transmission System Expansion, Plan Stage

1982-1984 - Environmental Assessment of Ontario Hydro's Eastern Transmission System Expansion, Plan Stage

Ontario Advisory Committee on Environmental Standards

1994 - Ontario Drinking Water Objective for Tritium

Ontario Select Committee on Hydro Affairs

1980 - Mining and Refining of Uranium Ore

1979 - The Safety of Ontario Hydro's Nuclear Reactors

Ontario Select Committee on Energy

1989 - Ontario Hydro

1988 - Ontario Hydro

1986 - Ontario Hydro

1985 - Ontario Hydro

Ontario Standing Committee on General Government

1989 - Countdown Acid Rain

Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General

1989-present - Technical Advisory Committee on Nuclear Emergency Plan (member)

Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economy

1991 - Sectoral Task Force on Energy and Minerals (member)

Ontario Ministry of Energy

1987 - Ontario Nuclear Safety Review

HEARINGS AND COMMITTEE EXPERIENCE: MUNICIPAL BODIES

City of Toronto Council

1984-1992 - Electrical Supply Committee (member)

1982-1984 - Joint Electrical Energy Planning Study

1981 - Municipal Council: Pickering A Generating Station

1980-1981 - Municipal Council: Darlington Nuclear Generating Station

1980 - Municipal Council: Citing of Nuclear Power Plants

In addition to the above intervnetions and submissions, I have participated on hundreds of occasions in consultations and meetings with members of Parliament and government bureaucrats at the provincial and federal levels, and made tens of written submissions to regulatory commissions and government committees

COURT EXPERIENCE

1987-1996 - Constitutional Challenge of Nuclear Liability Act

1987 - Challenge of Tritium Removal Facility under EAA

1986 - Allegation of Bias in AECB Decision

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• "Canada's nuclear nabobs try to turn green", The National Post, May 20, 2000
• Risk Methodology and Criteria for a Nuclear Waste Disposal Facility, Evidence submitted to the federal Environmental Assessment of AECL's Concept for Disposal of Canada's Nuclear Fuel Waste, March 1996
• Risks of a Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal Facility, Evidence submitted to the federal Environmental Assessment of AECL's Concept for Disposal of Canada's Nuclear Fuel Waste, August 1995
• How Many Cancers? Energy Probe's Written Submissions to the Advisory Committee on Environmental Standards on Proposed Limits for Tritium in Drinking Water, February-April 1994
• Environmental Unacceptability and Environmental Regulation of Nuclear Power, Evidence submitted to the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board Hearing into Ontario Hydro's Demand/Supply Plan, January 1993
• Investment Risks and Costs of Nuclear Plants and Other Megaprojects, Evidence submitted to the Ontario Environmental Assessment Board Hearing into Ontario Hydro's Demand/Supply Plan, December 1992
• Statistical Confidence of Observed Childhood Leukemia Excesses Around Ontario's Nuclear Facilities, Energy Probe 1991
• Electricity: Can It Ever Really Be Clean? Invited, published paper, Canadian Electrical Association's Demand-Side Management Conference, Winnipeg, May 1990
• "Probability Times Consequence: Rational and Scientific, or Just Imprudent?" in Energy Alternatives: Benefits and Risks, H.D. Sharma, ed., (University of Waterloo Press 1990)
• "Profit an ally in environmental power struggle", Globe & Mail, December 1, 1989
• Canada and Ontario's International Standing in Energy and Electricity Efficiency, and the Relationship Between Low Electricity Prices and the Generation of Wealth, Energy Probe 1989
• The Role of Ontario Hydro's Coal-Fired Exports in Acid-Gas Production, and Acid-Gas Control, Energy Probe 1989
• Too Cheap To Be True: Uncovering the Real Cost of Nuclear Electricity, Energy Probe 1989
• "Tritium: Canadian Content for the Bomb", in The Name of the Chamber Was Peace, Science for Peace, ed (University of Toronto Press, 1988)
• "Don'tmake it unlikely, take it away", in TRANSPO/88,vol. 11, no. 2, (Transport Canada 1988)
• Risks, Nuclear Safety, and the Ontario Nuclear Safety Review, Energy Proe 1987
• The Hazards of Old Reactors, co-author: Tom Slee, Energy Probe 1987
• "Tritium Exports: Building the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal", in Science and Technology Dimensions, vo. 2, no. 2, April 1987
• The Mismanagement of Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Program, Invited Brief to the Federal Standing Committee on Environment and Forestry, February 3, 1987
• "What Canadians Should Learn from Chernobyl", in CAIRS Radiation Safety Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 2, (Canadian Institute for Radiation Safety 1986)
• "Canadian, Soviet reactors share flaws, researcher says" Ottawa Citizen, May 10, 1986
• From Hydro to the H-bomb", The Hamilton Spectator, February 13, 1986
• Tritium, Bombs, and Ontario Hydro, Energy Probe 1985
• "Tories have pledged a full inquiry into nuclear industry", Toronto Star, September 16, 1984
• Canada's Domestic Nuclear Energy Industry: Is the Status Quo Morally Acceptable? Energy Probe 1984
• Canada's International Nuclear Trade: The Economics and the Weapons Connection, Energy Probe 1984
• "Public seeks control over atomic board", Winnipeg Free Press, December 22, 1983
• "CANDU design flaws in spotlight following Pickering leak", Toronto Star, August 13
• "Doubts about CANDU safety", Toronto Star, July 18, 1983
• "Hydrogen seen as a future energy source", Winnipeg Free Press, May 4, 1983
• "Costs cloud future of fusion energy", The Ottawa Citizen, February 5, 1983
• The Privilege of Participation: A brief to the Atomic Energy Control Board, co-author: David I. Poch, Energy Probe 1982
• "Atomic energy board's future darkened by record in the past", Toronto Star, May 24, 1982
• "Rational Anti-Nuke Puts Energy Problem in Perspective", Canadian Consulting Engineer, April 1981
• The Propaganda Papers: Energy Probe's Final Argument to the Ontario Energy Board, documenting the need to restrict Ontario Hydro's public relations activities, Energy Probe 1980
• What Keeps Us From Freezing in the Dark: A Breakdown of Canada's Secondary Energy Consumption by Fuel Type, 1977, Energy Probe 1980
• The Perils of Probabilities... A Brief to the Atomic Energy Control Board, Energy Probe 1979
• Feature articles on CANDU Reactor Exports, Diagnostic X-Rays, CO2, and CANDU Reactor Licensing Standards in The Probe Post (Pollution Probe Foundation, 1978-1979)
• News articles and reviews, ibid, 1978-1981

PUBLIC AND BROADCAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Public speaking engagements, perhaps 500 of them, before energy and environmental symposia, scholarly meetings, Ontario Science Centre, business associations, church groups, libraries, university and school

groups, etc.

Broadcast appearances on virtually all national and local (Toronto) television news, current-affairs, and science programmes, including:

• CBC and CTV National News
• Canada AM
• Mid-Day
• The Fifth Estate
• Venture
• The Nature of Things
• The Great Debate
• Science Cafe
• Hosted ten episodes of TVOntario's Fragile Nature, 1990-1991

 

Radio engagements too numberous to list individually, including:

• As It Happens
• Sunday Morning
• The House
• Commentary
• Morningside
• Ideas
• Quirks and Quarks

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

In 1986-1987 I served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Ontario Environment Network, and in 1988-1991 on the Board of Directors of the Independent Power Producers Society of Ontario, and in 1991 on the Energy and Minerals Task Force of the Ontario Round Table. I also represented Energy Probe on the eleven-member task force of national organizations that drafted Greenprint for Canad: A Federal Agenda for the Environment, and have served for three years on the National Board of Directors of Science for Peace. I am currently a member of the Canadian-Environment Caucus, the Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout, the Technical Advisory Committee on Ontario's Nuclear Emergency Plan and the Boards of Advisors of the Waterloo Institute for Risk Research and the McMaster Institute for Energy Studies

EDUCATION

1970 - Master of Fine Arts in Music History, Princeton University

1968 - Master of Fine Arts in Musicology, Boston University

1966 - Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Major: Humanities and Science; minor: Physics)

ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS

1970-1971 - Harold W. Dodds Fellow, Princeton University

1969-1970 - Charles Grosvenor Osgood Fellow, Princeton University

1968-1969 - Princeton University Fellow

OTHER DISTINCTIONS

1992-present - Who's Who in Canada

1990 - Described by Toronto Life magazine as Canada's leading environmental activist on the energy issue