DOUG RAMSEY

Mr. Ramsey is a Registered Professional Biologist in B.C. with four decades of comprehensive experience in environmental consulting with a focus on the mining and mineral sector involving well over 100 projects with a diverse range of environmental scenarios in Canada and around the globe. Most recently, he was Vice‐President, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs and then Chief Executive Officer (until a takeover in 2020) at Copper North Mining Corp. where he successfully concluded the project’s first consultation agreement with the indigenous community by overcoming a previous impasse in negotiation that had lasted 20 years. For over a decade, Mr. Ramsey played a senior consultant role at a number of international engineering firms including Tetra Tech WEI Inc. and Wardrop Engineering Inc., specializing in environmental assessment, permitting and natural resources. His prominent clients included Barrick Gold, Kinross Gold, Xstrata Copper, Inco, Falconbridge as well as Environment Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board. He has also consulted for several First Nations in Canada. Mr. Ramsey is regularly called upon to present and discuss scientific and engineering information with indigenous stakeholders and has made presentations on projects and mine environmental planning and reclamation issues at various Canadian and international conferences