Sarah is the Manager, Health & Safety at Trans-Northern Pipeline Inc. (TNPI) who has been seconded from Suncor Energy, where she was the Manager, Environment, Health & Safety supporting the Operations & Logistics business area. Her responsibilities included developing, implementing, and sustaining environment, health and safety programs for the pipeline, distribution terminal & truck logistics, ethanol manufacturing, sulphur recovery, and rail & marine operations throughout Canada and in the United States.

At TNPI, Sarah leads a team of health & safety professionals to enable full compliance with health & safety legislation and regulatory requirements. She is accountable for providing health & safety leadership to the entire organization through coordinated efforts with leaders and working collaboratively to support day-to-day field activities and deliver health and safety initiatives.

With over 20 years of experience, Sarah has extensive knowledge of provincial and federal environmental legislation, as well as programs and policies related to compliance and reporting. Sarah is experienced in collaborating with government, industry, and stakeholders on environmental matters. Sarah is a Qualified Environmental Professional, and Applied Science Technologist.

Sarah represents the Industrial-Commercial Sector on Halton-Hamilton's Source Protection Committee and is a past-member of the Sun-Canadian Pipe Line’s Board of Directors. Sarah is your 2022 A&WMA Ontario Section Chair and is also the Past-President (2015 to 2020).

Derek Flake is an Associate at Aercoustics Engineering and has over a decade of experience as an acoustical engineer specializing in acoustics, noise and vibration. He is a Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario with a Master's degree and has acted as an expert witness in environmental noise for civil proceedings, the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT) and the former Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). Derek is a member of multiple industry association committees including the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) Ontario Section, the associated core practitioner’s group, and the Ontario Stone Sand and Gravel Association (OSSGA). He has completed hundreds of noise assessments and peer reviews for land-use approval and for provincial permitting in a wide range of industries such as mining and renewable energy. Derek is also an instructor at the environmental noise training course for by-law officers of the Municipal Law Enforcement Officers Association of Ontario (MLEOA).

John Georgakopoulos, B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., LL.B., is a Partner at Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP and is a Certified Specialist in Environmental Law by the Law Society of Ontario. John resolves complex environmental legal issues for clients, uniquely drawing on his technical knowledge as a former senior environmental scientist with Ontario’s environmental regulator. John has particular expertise advising property developers, REITs, industrial manufacturers, and municipalities about managing environmental risks and liabilities associated with brownfields and contaminated sites. John provides strategic advice to help protect clients against corporate and personal environmental liabilities including civil claims, regulatory orders, prosecutions and fines. John is called to the Bar in Ontario and Alberta.

Scott has worked as an air pollution control and combustion engineer for over 35 years including periods with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks, Foster Wheeler Limited and SENES Consultants.  His experience ranges from air pollution control program development; best available air pollution control assessments; air permitting; and combustion engineering.

Scott is currently a partner in C&S Grant Environmental Consulting Inc. with clients that include industry, First Nations and community groups.

Scott is honoured to be a member of the Air & Waste Management Association - Ontario section.

Robert is a Principal of HGC Engineering, a consulting engineering firm specializing exclusively in noise, vibration and acoustics.  Over the past thirty years he has conducted acoustical assessments and noise/vibration studies for hundreds of industries across North America, and abroad, including developing noise control recommendations to meet local regulatory requirements. 

Rob has conducted research into methods of low frequency noise attenuation in ducts, effects of high temperatures on absorptive silencers, resonant dissipative silencers, measurements of acoustical properties of materials, and the use of sound intensity measurement methods in novel applications.

HGC Engineering provides acoustical assistance to a wide variety of industries, manufacturers and the construction sector, and strives to bring the benefit of this broad experience to the noise control challenges faced by pipeline and compressor companies.

Brian is a Technical Director and Principal with RWDI whose air quality emissions and dispersion modelling work has benefited clients in almost every industrial and institutional sector served by RWDI.  Brian’s experience includes heavy industry such as mining, aggregate extraction, hot mix asphalt production, cement plants, pulp and paper mills, petrochemical facilities, and automotive production, through to institutional facilities such as hospitals and universities.  In addition to working directly with clients to meet air quality objectives and comply with regulations, Brian acts as a technical lead for RWDI’s Air Quality modelling group, coaching and mentoring scientists and engineers across Canada at work on a range of emissions inventory, monitoring and modelling projects. 

Brian is also an instructor at Conestoga College, teaching introductory courses on air quality and noise issues in both the Environmental Engineering Application and Environmental Building Science programs, and previously taught a similar course at Sheridan College in Brampton.  In this role, Brian has been helping encourage students to consider working in the air quality and noise engineering fields for almost two decades. 

Brian sits on the Board of the Ontario Section of the Air & Waste Management Association, and is an active member with the Ontario Environmental Industry Association.  Brian also sits on the Environment Committee of the Ontario Stone Sand and Gravel Association, providing guidance and training to members on fugitive dust management and control and regulatory compliance requirements.  These professional associations also provide additional opportunities for Brian to educate a wide audience about technical and regulatory matters pertaining to the field of air quality. 

Brian is also an active volunteer in the rowing community, coaching athletes and teaching learn-to-row programs for over 20 years.  Brian was the founding Head Coach for the University of Guelph Rowing program in 2000, and spent 10 seasons as Head Coach before retiring to the role of assistant coach, a role in which he continues to serve today. 

In his spare time, Brian spends his time renovating a century home, woodworking, cooking, hiking, fishing, and taking epic road trips with his family.

Julie is the Manager - Environmental Affairs at Stelco Hamilton Works.  Stelco is an independently owned and operated Canadian integrated iron and steel producer, operating in two southern Ontario locations.   Julie has over 20 years of experience, with extensive knowledge of provincial and federal legislation, programs and policies related to air quality and environmental reporting.  Julie is experienced in collaborating with government, industry, and stakeholders on environmental matters, currently serving as Industry co-chair of the O. Reg 419 External Working Group.  Julie is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Hamilton Industrial Environmental Association.

As a Professional Engineer, Julie has volunteered for the PEO for the better part of her career, including having served as Chair of the Professional Engineers of Ontario Hamilton-Burlington Chapter.  She is currently coordinating the A&WMA Breakfast/Virtual Series – if you have any content suggestions, please throw them her way!

Tony established Vooren Air Quality Management Services (VAQMS) in early 2017 after 35 years as a senior environmental consultant with two large engineering and environmental companies (Amec Foster Wheeler and SNC-Lavalin).

He is involved in environmental issues in all industrial sectors and works with all levels of government on policy and implementation issues. His expertise includes air quality issues, industrial air pollution control, permitting, regulatory review, environmental assessment and impact modelling. 

Through VAQMS, he is actively involved on various environmental committees with industry (CME, OFIA, OMA), with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) (ESDM Professional Practices Committee) and he continues to be the co-chair of the “practitioners group”, providing advice and guidance to the government on environmental air programs.

He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario and is also a QEP (Qualified Environmental Professional). He is a Fellow Member of the Air & Waste Management Association in recognition of his work in the environmental profession. Tony was the President of the international association in their centennial year (2007) and remains very active both locally and internationally with the Association.