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SciWrite's founder, Lee Harding, began consulting in wildlife biology in 1972,
studying the impact of hydrocarbon exploration and development on wildlife
in northern terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Projects included offshore
drilling in the Beaufort Sea, associated natural gas plant and pipeline
development proposals and seismic exploration. (see his resume
for more details.)
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1976 Harding joined Environment Canada as an environmental design biologist,
representing the Department in oil and gas-related projects in the Northwest
Territories
and Alaska. The latter included an assessment of environmental
impacts of drilling fluids in Cook Inlet (see photo at left). In
1978, he moved to a position as a science manager in Yellowknife, NWT,
Territories, where he served on licensing boards for offshore drilling and
ocean disposal and managed pollution assessment studies. One hundred
thirty-five offshore
wells were drilled in the Beaufort Sea during his tenure there. He
represented the Department at public hearings regarding offshore drilling licenses throughout the Arctic
and participated in the design of the Baffin Island experimental oil spill
program (AMOP, Arctic Marine Oilspill Program). |
 From
1980 to 1992, Harding managed marine pollution assessment and ocean disposal
programs for Environment Canada in North Vancouver, British Columbia. In
this capacity he led oceanographic research cruises into every part of the
B.C. coast, including offshore drilling areas in Hecate Strait
and Dixon Entrance. In 1989 Harding led a
multi-agency environmental response to, and subsequent impact assessment
of, a major oil spill on the west coast of Canada. In this capacity he
directed teams of terrestrial and marine biologists and personally
undertook studies of long term persistence of oil in intertidal and
subtidal environments and effects on fish and wildlife. He was an expert
witness in a successful, precedent-setting federal suit to recover
environmental damages. |
| SciWrite Environmental
Sciences Ltd. works with a broad network of
professionals and will field a multidisciplinary team to tackle any aspect
of environmental assessments for offshore drilling. |
| Dr. Harding has numerous
publications on oil spills and effects of hydrocarbon
exploration and offshore drilling in the scientific and technical
literature. |
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