Douglas Black QC

Doug is a senior partner and a Vice Chairman of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. He also serves as the co-chair of the firm's national energy practice. His practice involves providing legal, policy and strategic advice to governments and corporations. His specific legal expertise is in the areas of corporate, commercial, and energy law. In addition, he is corporate secretary of a major Canadian corporation, and is chair of a Canadian income trust.
BACKGROUND
Year of call to the Bar: 1994 (Alberta)
Year of call to the Bar: 1977 (Newfoundland & Labrador)
Appointed Queen's Counsel, 2002
Dalhousie Law School (LL.B.), 1975
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Speaker at national and international organizations including, the Canadian Association of Corporate Counsel, the Canadian Bar Association and the Conference Board of Canada on issues related to leadership, change management and developments in the practice and business of law
Authored papers published in the Alberta Law Review on issues related to offshore oil and gas legal issues
Member of the Law Societies of Alberta, Newfoundland & Labrador
Governor Emeritus of The Banff Centre
Board Member, Calgary Opera
Member of the Editorial Board of Canadian Lawyer Magazine
Member by invitation of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles
Public Member for Calgary to the Alberta Press Council
Member of Canadian Institute of International Affairs

Dr. James A. Boutilier PhD

James A. Boutilier is the Special Advisor (Policy) at Canada's Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Dr. Boutilier served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve from 1956 to 1964 as a navigating officer and in the same capacity in the Royal Navy Reserve from 1964 to 1969. Dr. Boutilier taught at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, from 1969 to 1971 and at Royal Roads Military where he spent 24 years as department head and Dean of Arts. He was instrumental in establishing the military and strategic studies degree program at the College and taught courses on naval history, contemporary Asia, the history of the Pacific, and strategic issues. Dr. Boutilier is now the current President of MASC.

Peter Chance Commander CD, MNI (Retired)

Peter Chance completed a 32-year naval career in the Royal Canadian Navy specializing in navigation and as an aircraft controller. He served on 13 ships and commanded a frigate and destroyer as well as fulfilling a number of shore staff appointments. Commander Chance was also the first Executive Officer to the Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School and wrote A Sailor's Life, Before It's Too Late. Peter was the founding President of MASC.

Rod Dobell PhD

Rod Dobell completed his PhD in economics at MIT and taught economic theory at Harvard for five years before returning to Canada as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto. He has served as Special Advisor (Long Range Economic Planning) to the Deputy Minister of Finance and as Deputy Secretary to the Treasury Board in the Government of Canada, Director of the General Economics Branch at OECD, Director of Research for two Parliamentary Task Forces, and a President of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1984-1991. In 1991 he was named as the first holder of the Francis G. Winspear Chair for Research in Public Policy at the University of Victoria. He now calls himself a philosophically-inclined, ecological, socio-political economist and is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at the University of Victoria.

Dr. John F. Dower

Born and raised in St. John's Newfoundland, Dr. Dower received his BSc in Biology from Memorial University of Newfoundland and his PhD in Biology (Biological Oceanography) from the University of Victoria. He was a Research Associate at Queen's University (Kingston, ON) from 1996-1998, an Assistant Professor at UBC from 1998-2000 (Earth and Ocean Sciences) and currently holds a joint appointment in the Biology Department and the School of Earth & Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria.
Dr. Dower recently served as a member of the Royal Society of Canada's Expert Panel on the BC Offshore Oil and Gas Moratorium. He has published on various aspects of marine ecology and biological oceanography is a member of the DFO Advisory Team for the establishment of a Marine Protected Area at Bowie Seamount. Dr Dower has also served on an international panel that conducted an ecosystem review of the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) for the US National Marine Fisheries Service, and is a member of the City of Victoria's CRD Marine Monitoring Advisory Group. He participated in the GLOBEC Canada research program and is currently co-PI on an NSERC Strategic Project examining the coupling of physical and biological processes in the Strait of Georgia.

Al Hudec, CFA

Al Hudec, a senior partner with Davis & Company in Vancouver. He was lead counsel to the project banker financing the Hibernia offshore platform and recently published an article entitled "Developing BC's Offshore Oil & Gas Resources" in the 2003 Petroleum Law Supplement of the Alberta Law Review. He is a legal advisor to the BC Offshore Oil & Gas Team. Al speaks frequently on legal aspects of BC offshore oil and gas including presentations to the Royal Society of Canada, Expert Tribunal; the Energy Subsection of the International Bar Association (Washington, DC); the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation (Jasper, Alberta); the Newfoundland Ocean Industries Association (St. John's, Newfoundland); the Canadian Institute's 3rd Annual BC Natural Gas Symposium (Vancouver, BC); Insight Information's Third Annual Atlantic Canada Oil And Gas Summit (St. John's, Newfoundland); and the Northern Mining and Energy Conference (Prince Rupert, BC).

Hon. Constance Hunt

Madam Justice Hunt is a member of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Previously Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, she was also Executive Director of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law for several years and counsel for Mobil Oil Canada from 1981-83. She is the author of many articles and books about oil and gas law, including several that compare the systems for offshore petroleum development in Australia with those in Canada. Comparison

Tom Isaac

Tom Isaac, B.A., M.A., LL.B., LL.M. practises law with McCarthy T‚trault in Vancouver. Mr. Isaac is a nationally recognized authority in the area of aboriginal law and advises clients across Canada on aboriginal legal and negotiation-related matters. He is a former Chief Treaty Negotiator for the Province of B.C. and prior to that was Assistant Deputy Minister for the Government of the NWT responsible for establishing Nunavut. Mr. Isaac has published extensively in aboriginal and constitutional law, including the recently published 3rd ed. to his textbook: Aboriginal Law. He is a practising member of the Bars of B.C., N.B., N.W.T. and Nunavut.

Douglas Johnston JSD

Professor Johnston, Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, was the founding Director of Dalhousie's Marine Environment Law Programme (MELP), co-founder of Dalhousie's Oceans Studies Programme (DOSP) and a co-founder of the Southeast Asian Programme in Ocean Law, Policy and Management (SEAPOL). Professor Johnston was formerly North American governor of the International Council on Environmental Law and a member of the Board of the Law of the Sea Institute (LSI). He is author or editor of numerous works in the field of international law and policy, with special emphasis on fisheries, marine pollution, ocean boundary-making and treaty-making including the recent MASC publication "Revisiting the Law of the Sea." He has held the Chair in Asia-Pacific Legal Relations at the University of Victoria and was the Director of the Policy Research Programme at the National University of Singapore. He continues as Programme Director of SEAPOL. Professor Johnston also provides a $ 5,000 annual scholarship to Dalhousie University to assist graduate students pursuing marine-related research.

Hon. Roger Kerans, FCIArb.

A lawyer since 1957 and a trial or appeal judge for 27 years (1970-1997, Roger Kerans is an arbitrator and mediator. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, he is on the rosters of ADR Chambers, ADR Chambers International, and the ICC's International Court of Arbitration, Paris. Until his retirement from active practice in 2002, he was counsel at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP at Calgary, and he teaches oil and gas law at the University of Victoria. He is the author of Standards of Review, a book about appellate review, and of many published articles and papers about the law. See more on website, http://www.kerans.ca

Derek Muggeridge PhD

Derek Muggeridge received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1970. He was full professor, university reseach professor and Director of the Ocean Engineering Research Centre at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Dean of Science and Associate Vice-President (Research)at Okanagan University College. Dr. Muggeridge has been President of Offshore Design Associates Limited since 1980. The company provides internationally recognized specialist services in the area of ice structure interaction and offshore evacuation.

Patrick O'Rourke

Patrick O'Rourke was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister of the BC Offshore Oil and Gas Team when the Team was established in January 2003. He served as Acting Deputy Minister from February to August. Prior to the appointment to the Team, Patrick spent two years with the Ministry of Energy and Mines as Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for all ministry policy and legislation, as well as the offshore file. Patrick had earlier served as an Assistant Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs from 1997 to 2001, with responsibility for treaty policy and mandates. Patrick was a member of the provincial Nisga'a Treaty negotiating team from 1993 until his appointment in 1997. Patrick rejoined the team in the spring of 1998 as assistant chief negotiator during the final phase of negotiations. Patrick obtained a law degree from the University of Victoria in 1988 and was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1989. He articled and practiced with the Ministry of Attorney General, primarily in constitutional and administrative law. In 1991, Patrick was appointed a Constitutional Advisor in the Intergovernmental Relations Branch, Office of the Premier. Although he is counsel to Her Majesty's Government, he is not, as claimed in promotional material, Queen's Counsel.

J. Jay Park

Jay is a partner of Macleod Dixon's Energy Practice Group, and chair of the firm's International Energy Practice Group, which is comprised of over 40 energy lawyers in Macleod Dixon's offices in Calgary, Toronto, Caracas, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Almaty and Atyrau. Jay has practised oil and gas law in Canada and internationally since joining Macleod Dixon LLP in 1980. Jay has represented oil and gas producers, governments, consumers, marketers, pipeline companies and local distribution companies, banks and investors. In over twenty years of practice, Jay has negotiated, drafted and provided advice in respect of numerous oil and gas agreements and laws, principally in Canada, but also in 21 other countries. He has acted for governments and state oil companies in eleven states in connection with the preparation of laws pertaining to the upstream, midstream and downstream energy sector and the regulation of energy activities, and with respect to production sharing agreements, operating service agreements, gas sales contracts and pipeline agreements. Jay is currently serving as a director or officer or both of over two dozen oil and gas producing companies, gas marketing companies and pipeline companies. He has developed the one-week seminar, "World Legal Systems and Contracts for Oil & Gas", which will next be presented in London in June 2004.

Phillip M. Saunders BA (Hon), MA, LLB. (Dal)

Acting Dean (July 1 2001 - June 30 2002) Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Law School and School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie; Research Fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies. Teaching subjects - Law of the Sea, Environmental Law, International fisheries Law, Judicial Remedies, International Advocacy and Torts. Publications - "Development Cooperation and Compliance with International Environmental Law: Past Experience and Future Prospects" in American Society of International Law, Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues - 1996 (in press, 1996). The Management of South Pacific Marine Resources: Regional Institutions and Canadian Development Assistance", with Richard Herr, in Ocean Law and Policy in the Post-UNCED Era: Australian and Canadian Perspectives (in press, 1996). Development Assistance Issues Related to a Convention on Forests"; in CCIL, Global Forests and International Law. "Moving on From Rio: Recent Initiatives on Global Forest Issues"; 32 Canadian Yearbook of International Law (1995).

Dr Torge Schuemann PhD

Dr Schuemann holds a Diploma (Masters) in Geology from the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, a doctorate (PhD) in Geology from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, worked with the Geological Survey of Germany (1998-2002) and was a. Guest scientist at the Institut Francais du Petrole (1999-2001). His current area of interest: Queen Charlotte Basin HC assessment using new basin-modelling technologies. He renounces the claim in the promotional material that he is a full professor. Not yet, he says.

Gordon Slade

Gordon Slade has been the Executive Director for ONE OCEAN since its inception in 2002. Mr. Slade's diverse experience in public service in marine affairs has afforded him the opportunity to deal with a broad spectrum of ocean related activities. Mr. Slade served as Deputy Minister of Fisheries for Newfoundland and Labrador from 1974-1982, and then began his tenure in economic development with the Ministry of State for Economic and Regional Development as well as the Offshore Development Fund until 1987, culminating with his appointment as Vice President for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency until 1996. From 1997-2000, Mr. Slade held the position of Executive Director for the International Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Before taking his position as Executive Director of ONE OCEAN, Mr. Slade was the Chief Executive Officer of the Cruise Ship Authority of Newfoundland and Labrador. Mr. Slade is currently a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society; Vice Chair, Newfoundland and Labrador Legacy Trust; Managing Director, Battle Harbour Historic Trust; Board Member, Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador and Director of The Institute of Governance.

David Smith PEng LL.D.

David Smith was Chancellor of the University of Calgary from 1990 to1994 and was named Chancellor Emeritus in 1994. Previously he was senator and governor of the University of Calgary from 1980 to 1989. Mr. Smith chaired the University's Olympic building committee and played a key role in the creation of the Olympic Oval and Athlete's Village. Mr Smith has served as a senior officer for Pan Alta Gas Ltd., Canadian Western Natural Gas Co. Ltd, Northwestern Utilities Ltd., Western Co-operative Fertilizers Ltd., Canadian Fertilizers Ltd. and Associated Engineering Services Ltd. He was also a chairman of the Alberta's Electrical Energy Marketing Agency and was a board member of the National Energy Board of Canada. Mr. Smith has recently contributed a large amount of time to the Capital Region Prostate Foundation and wrote the book Surely Not Me? A Year in the Life of a Victim of Prostate Cancer.

Laurie Smith