Pure Water for the World

Professional Experience

1968 to 1975
Mining exploration geologist in Western Canada, southwest U.S. (New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada), northern Mexico and Peru.

1976 to 1990
Planted and operated a commercial apple orchard at Argenta, B.C.. I also built and operated a saw mill, worked as a log house builder and did reforestation work, running my own contracting company with a crew of up to 40 people. I also did local mining exploration work.

1991 to present
Consulting work for the forest industry, mining industry and government ministries doing terrain (geomorphological) mapping, watershed assessment and restoration and bioengineering of unstable slopes largely in south east British Columbia. I also worked for about a year on a major pipeline construction project (Camisea) in the Peruvian Amazon and altiplano as a consultant/auditor on environmental and engineering geology issues Latin American Experience I took most of Grade 9 and Grade 10 in Spanish in Chile. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I worked a year in Peru with shorter stints in Northern Mexico and in New Mexico, working primarily in Spanish. In the 1980s and 90s I traveled several times to Mexico and Guatemala including 2 weeks assisting on a rural development project in Guatemala in 1996.

In 2002 I traveled for 10 weeks in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. During that time I completed a summary of the geology of a small eco-reserve in southern Ecuador. In 2002 and 2003 I worked on a gas pipeline project in Peru for about a year in total and also reviewed a pipeline project in northern Ecuador most of my day to day work was in Spanish. I traveled a month in Bolivia in 2003 and did minor volunteer work in the altiplano on erosion control issues. In 2004 I traveled in Central America for 2 months with minor volunteer work on erosion control in Nicaragua.

Education

Prof. Association BSc.(Hons. Geology) and MSc.(Geochemistry) from Univ. of Manitoba, Canada
P. Geo. (Member Association of Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C.) and P. Ag. (Member of British Columbia Institute of Agrologists)

Community Participation
Among other involvements I have been president/director of Kootenay Lake Farmers Institute, Argenta Water Power Coop, the Kootenay Boundary branch of BC Institute of Agrologists and was a school trustee for 3 years. I have been active in a number of watershed protection groups and in land use planning with community, industry and government participation. I was active in a Kootenay area Central American Support group for 8 years, working mostly with Guatemalan refugees. I helped sponsor a Guatemalan refugee family who immigrated to Canada and also sponsored an Argentinian journalist who was a political refugee.

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