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SciWrite's
founder, Lee
Harding, began consulting in wildlife ecology in 1972 studying habitats
and behavior of fur-bearers, ungulates and large carnivores in relation to
hydrocarbon developments in forest, coastal and tundra ecosystems.
Field projects included the Mackenzie Valley Gas Pipeline, a natural gas
production and gas pipeline system in the Mackenzie Delta and seismic
exploration in the High Arctic. Harding also prepared a report
for Environment Canada which reviewed, indexed and cross-referenced all environmental issues
discussed by the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. His consulting reports were presented with environmental
impact statements to both the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (Berger) Inquiry
and the Alaska Highway gas pipeline environmental assessment panel, in
which he participated as an expert witness (Mackenzie Valley) and
departmental representative (Alaska Highway).
In 1976 Harding joined Environment Canada as a senior environmental design
biologist in Edmonton, Alberta, where he compiled and published environmental Codes
of Practice for the Mackenzie Valley and Alaska Highway gas pipeline
proposals (published by Environment Canada in the Prairie and Northern and
Pacific and Yukon Regions, respectively). He participated as an
Environment Canada expert in both the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline
Inquiry in Yellowknife, NWT, and the Environmental Assessment and Review Panel public hearings about the Alaska
Highway gas pipeline in Whitehorse, Yukon.
Harding then moved to increasingly responsible positions as a science
manager in Yellowknife, North Vancouver, and Delta, B.C. During 1980-91 he
managed Environment Canada's marine biological programs on the west coast
of Canada. In this position, from 1989 to 1991 he coordinated an on-site,
interdepartmental/intergovernmental impact assessment of a major coastal
oil spill, coordinating teams of biologists responsible for wildlife and
fisheries assessments. During this emergency response he coordinated daily
input from field teams to the on-scene commander to set response
priorities, and afterwards prepared an assessment of the impact. He also
participated in Canada' first successful court case to recover costs of
environmental damages.
