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CSP2 STAFF ----------------------- Dr. Chambers is the president of the CENTER for SCIENCE in PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, a non-profit corporation formed to provide technical assistance on mining and water quality to public interest groups and tribal governments. David Chambers has 15 years of management and technical experience in the mineral exploration industry, and for the past 17 years has served as an advisor on the environmental effects of mining projects both nationally and internationally. He is a registered professional geophysicist (California # GP 972) with a Masters Degree in Geophysics from Berkeley, and Professional Engineering Degree in Physics from the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Chambers received his Ph.D. in Environmental Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the U.S. Forest Service's efforts to plan for and manage minerals on the National Forests. He has provided technical assistance to public interest groups and tribal governments on proposed, operating, and abandoned mines in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Canada (British Columbia, Ontario, Labrador, Yukon), Kyrgyzstan, and Northern Ireland. This assistance has included review of underground and open pit mine design, seismic stability for tailings dams, waste rock facilities design, water quality monitoring, water treatment facility design, reclamation planning, and financial assurance for mine closure. This has included the review of dozens of environmental impact studies and included analyzing the potential adverse affects on surface and groundwater quality of acid mine drainage and metals leaching from mine point discharges and seepage from mine waste storage facilities, and on proposing alternative methodologies to avoid these impacts. Dr. Chambers has also provided technical assistance to tribal governments and public interest groups in negotiating with mine owners, mine developers, and federal and state regulators, to assist these parties in understanding the major technical implications of specific mining projects, and in providing alternatives that would lead to more environmentally responsible development. He has played a key role in negotiating complex agreements, including alternative development plans for several mine proposals in Alaska, technical studies related to EPA placer mining regulation, efforts by the mining industry and NGOs to research and regulate marine mine waste disposal, and a joint industry-NGO international effort to develop a process to define and measure performance for responsible mining practices. Dr. Chambers has worked with the State of Alaska Departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation on mining, reclamation, cyanide and solid waste regulations. He has been a member of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks School of Mineral Engineering Advisory Board; a member of the Western Governors' Association Abandoned Mine Waste Working Group; and, a member of the EPA's RCRA Policy Dialogue Committee, a group of industry, environmental and government representatives who worked to develop regulations for mining wastes under the authority of RCRA Subtitle D. Education:
University of California, Berkeley
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Amy Crook is the British Columbia Program Coordinator for the Centre for Science in Public Participation. Ms. Crook has 25 years of experience working on environmental impact assessment of resource development projects. For the past six years she has provided technical assistance to public interest and Aboriginal groups throughout Western Canada. Ms. Crook has a Masters Degree in Fisheries Management and Statistics from Oregon State University and a Bachelors Degree in Natural Resource Management for University of Michigan. Her thesis work studied the impacts of hydroelectric dams on fish habitat on several streams in Oregon. Ms. Crook has conducted technical reviews of mining developments for 15 years specializing in environmental assessment and permit reviews, water quality and toxicology issues, public involvement and consent building processes, and assisting local affected communities through public workshops and trainings. She has extensive experience with both US and Canadian mining regulations and environmental assessment review and permitting processes. Ms. Crook represented Aboriginal interests on the Canadian Environmental Assessment project review team for the Tulsequah Chief Mine. She is the Western Canadian representative for both Natural Resources Canada’s Mine Effluent Neutralization Discharge working group, and the Western Mining Action Network steering committee. Previous to joining the Centre for Science in Public Participation Ms. Crook worked as the Southeast Alaska Team leader in the Industrial Operation section of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. She was responsible for permitting and compliance oversight of industrial facilities and conducted field inspections, environmental sampling, voluntary compliance programs, and enforcement actions. Education:
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan ----------------------- Stu worked for the Montana Department of State Lands, Abandoned Mine Reclamation Bureau as a Land Reclamation Specialist, where he designed mine reclamation project plans, focusing on water quality and watershed improvement, hard rock mines, acid mine drainage prevention and treatment, artificial wetlands, and NEPA and Superfund (state and federal) compliance. After completing law school at the University of Montana, he was a clerk for the Montana Supreme Court. He then worked as the water quality program Project Coordinator for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe in Idaho, where he represented the Tribe in a three-government program to reclaim the Coeur d'Alene Basin from past mining injuries and protect its resources from future environmental degradation. In this capacity, he facilitated effective tribal and public awareness and involvement in the Coeur d’Alene River cleanup process. He reviewed ongoing EPA cleanup activities associated with the Bunker Hill Superfund Site (Kellogg, Idaho), and provided support and project-specific tasks for joint tribal and federal Natural Resource Damage claim. He also drafted tribal water quality standards and classifications for Tribal Clean Water Act program application, and represented the Tribe in the regional and Tribal TMDL development processes. Stu then was a Senior Staff Attorney for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Pablo, Montana, where he focused on environmental issues. He was the lead for injury determination/calculation in Tribal natural resources damage claim under CERCLA, which settled for over $18 million. He managed legal affairs for programs relating to Tribal Sovereignty and Treaty rights through environmental management, and developed and maintained Tribal Water Quality Program and Clean Water Act compliance. He represented Tribal Water Quality, Forestry, Fish and Wildlife, and Air Quality Departments; toxics and natural resources programs, and Mission Valley Power, the region’s power utility (tribally operated). Stu represented CSP2 as a technical analyst to the Clark Fork Technical Assistance Committee for the Clark Fork River superfund sites (Anaconda Co./ARCO Butte-Milltown Dam). This Committee, funded with an EPA (Superfund) Technical Assistance Grant informed and assisted the public to understand and participate in the government’s and ARCO’s planning, permitting, and cleanup processes. Stu was also Watershed Program Coordinator and Staff Attorney for American Wildlands, a conservation group in Bozeman, Montana, where he developed and implemented a framework and strategy for campaigns to protect high quality watersheds. This program required blending science and law to insure government agencies enforced environmental protection and land management laws. This project included working with the State of Montana on degraded water cleanup and protection (TMDL listing and development); endangered species protection (west slope cutthroat trout and Kootenai River burbot); and work on federal projects such as timber sales, Forest Plans, Travel Management Plans, and BLM Regional Management Plans. Education: University of Montana School of Law, Missoula, Montana Doctor of Jurisprudence, May 1994 Montana and Federal Bar Admission, October 1994 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Master of Science in Land Reclamation, May 1989 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey Bachelor of Arts in English, May 1985
----------------------- Carrie Slanina is the British Columbia Regional Coordinator for the Centre for Science in Public Participation. She is based in Vancouver, and focuses on northern BC mining and First Nations issues. Carrie plays a critical role in reaching out to the numerous mining affected First Nations communities in northern BC. She works to help them on their path towards appropriately paced, placed and scaled mining projects and practices. She works directly with individuals, community groups and leadership to help increase their capacity to understand and deal with hard rock mining projects in their traditional territory. She works on creating networks of First Nations who can benefit and learn from each other’s diverse and similar experiences with mining. Carrie also assists the Center team with specific mining project analyses. Carrie came to the Centre after 3 years at the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society of BC, where she was the northern program manager. Her work at CPAWS focused on conservation and natural resource issues in the Stikine watershed, home of the Tahltan First Nation, and throughout Kaska Dena First Nation traditional territory. Her work was also diversified with other resource issues across northwest BC, including participation in the Kalum Land and Resource Management Plan Implementation Committee. Carrie is also the current co-chair for the Western Mining Action Network, a North American Network for communities and people dealing with mining projects across the United States and Canada. Carrie graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, with a focus on Physical Geography. Recent mining training and participation includes:
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