Elizabeth May
Executive Director
Sierra Club Canada

Summary of Experience:
Ms. May is an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer. Ms. May is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and is admitted to the Bar in both Nova Scotia and Ontario. She has held the position of Associate General Council for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, representing consumer, poverty and environment groups in her work. In 1986, she became Senior Policy Advisor to the then federal Environment Minister, Tom McMillan.

Ms. May is also the author of four books, Budworm Battles (1982), Paradise Won: The Struggle to Save South Moresby (1990), At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada’s Forests (Key Porter Books, 1998) and her most recent, co-authored with Maude Barlow, Frederick Street: Life and Death on Canada’s Love Canal (Harper Collins, 2000). She sat on the boards of Earth Day 1990 and Friends of the Earth Canada, is an Honorary member of the board for the Canadian Environmental Network and was a founding member of the Canadian Environmental Defense Fund and Women for a Healthy Planet.

Currently Ms. May is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada and a member of the board of directors of the International Institute for Sustainable Development and a senior policy advisor to a Minister of Environment.

Presentation Areas:
Expertise regarding CEAA and Kyoto requirements, climate change models, Canada and Manitoba’s responsibilities regarding climate change, public policy standards regarding climate change, and alternatives to these Hydro projects. The testimony given may be in respect to the Wuskwatim Generation and Transmission Project EIS Guidelines.

Wuskwatim Generation EIS Guidelines: sections 2.3.1; 2.3.2; 3; 5.2; 5.3.3; 6.1; 6.2 (all); 6.3.2; 7.0; and 10.

Wuskwatim Transmission EIS Guidelines: sections 2.3.1; 2.3.2; 3; 6.0; 6.1; 7; 8; 10; and 11.