Our People
TERA is an employee-owned environmental consulting firm. We are successful because of the unsurpassed expertise and experience of our team of over 275 talented employees. Our staff bring a broad range of experience to every project and provide an expert, balanced perspective sharply focused on our clients' needs.
Principal Personnel
Piers Fothergill, M.E.Des.
Director & President
Piers Fothergill has been the President of TERA since January 2007. During his tenure in this position, TERA has more than tripled in size and become more diverse in terms of capabilities, services and client base. He is primarily responsible for the administrative side of the business. In his past role as a senior environmental planner, Mr. Fothergill's expertise was in project management and implementation of environmental assessments and protection plans for the oil and gas industry. His project management experience includes assembling and coordinating large multidisciplinary teams through numerous federal and provincial jurisdictions. Mr. Fothergill's technical strengths lie in route selection of linear developments; terrain analysis; selection and assessment of watercourse crossings; government liaison and regulatory process; and overall project management. Prior to becoming the president of TERA, Mr. Fothergill was very active in the management of the environmental assessments of the Mackenzie Gas Project and Alliance Pipeline. He has provided expert testimony for Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB), Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) and National Energy Board (NEB) hearings.
Karl Gilmore, B.Sc.
Director & Senior Vice President
Karl Gilmore's fields of expertise are in environmental impact assessment, project management, environmental protection planning and biological surveys related to all aspects of pipeline project applications and construction. Mr. Gilmore draws on the above experience in the management of large, complex pipeline projects and direction of multidisciplinary study teams. Some of the larger pipeline projects he has managed include the Enbridge Alberta Clipper, Southern Lights, Terrace Phases I and II and Capacity Expansion Program, NOVA Gas Canada Liquids Gathering System and four large Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessments (ESAs) for TransCanada PipeLines Limited (TransCanada) looping projects. He has provided expert testimony before the NEB eight times, and before the EUB/ERCB three times.
Dean Mutrie, MA, MCIP
Director & Vice President
Dean Mutrie is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental impacts of linear facilities and has recently been solicited by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Encyclopedia of Life Support System (EOLSS) committee to author a piece entitled "Environmental Conservation" in the "Pipeline Engineering" theme. Mr. Mutrie has been an environmental consultant since 1973. He joined TERA as a Principal in 1986 and has carried out over 300 pipeline and powerline projects totaling more than 30,000 km. Mr. Mutrie has served as Project Director for a number of high-profile projects in Canada including the Alaska Pipeline Project, the TMX - Anchor Loop through Jasper National Park, the Mackenzie Gas Project, Georgia Strait Crossing and the Alliance Pipeline Project, as well as the Altamont Pipeline, Express Pipeline and Tuscarora Gas Transmission projects in the United States (US). He has also carried out numerous powerline routing studies for ATCO Electric, AltaLink and TransCanada Power. Mr. Mutrie is a pioneer in Environmental Inspection, co-founded the EnForm Pipeline Environmental Inspection course in 1988 and has led numerous training courses on the subject across Canada and the US for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and others. He co-chaired the Seventh International Symposium on Environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management, continues to sit on the Steering Committee planning the next Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona in 2012, and is the chairman of the Environmental Issues track of the upcoming International Pipeline Conference (IPC 2012) in September 2012. Mr. Mutrie is a member of the Alberta Professional Planners Institute, the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Canadian Land Reclamation Association. He has testified as an expert environmental witness in Canada and the US on nine occasions.
Leona Gibb, M.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Leona Gibb has been project manager and primary author of Conservation and Reclamation (C&R) Reports for over 90 pipelines throughout Alberta on behalf of numerous junior and senior oil and gas companies including the ACCESS Pipeline Project and the Pembina Pipeline Alberta Oil Sands Pipeline Expansion and Northern Extension. She specializes in route and site geotechnical and constructability issues, government and stakeholder issue resolution and First Nation liaison.
Brenda Squire, M.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Brenda Squire has been a Project Manager, Senior Author or Senior Reviewer on numerous environmental impact assessments and environmental mitigation plans for Conservation and Reclamation Applications, ERCB Applications, Alberta Utility Commission Applications, Environmental Field Reports (EFRs) and Area Operating Agreements in Alberta; Saskatchewan and Manitoba Project Proposals; British Columbia (BC) Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) Applications; as well as various levels of applications to the NEB. Ms. Squire has extensive experience developing regulatory strategies for projects and maintains current on the regulatory requirements for provincially and federally-regulated linear projects throughout western Canada.
Tamara Petter, M.E.S.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Tamara Petter has been Project Leader and Senior Author for numerous NEB Section 52 and 58 applications in Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. She employs her expertise in effects assessment and mitigation planning in the preparation of Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessments. Ms. Petter has provided expert testimony before the NEB on two occasions.
Marcia Monteith, B.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Since 1997, Marcia Monteith has acquired experience in project management for pipelines and associated facilities throughout Alberta and BC. Recent projects, which Ms. Monteith has been involved in, include NEB Section 58 applications in northwest Alberta and BC. Other notable projects include the Corridor Pipeline Expansion project which transports oil from north of Fort McMurray to Edmonton, and the Enbridge Pipelines Inc. Line 4 Extension NEB Section 52 project. She has also been involved in a variety of large and small projects for Spectra Energy Transmission in BC and Encana Corporation in southern Alberta. Ms. Monteith has acted as an expert environmental witness before the NEB on two occasions.
Greg Bryant, M.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Greg Bryant's responsibilities include routing electrical transmission lines and siting associated facilities, routing pipelines and siting associated facilities, as well as managing multidisciplinary study teams for federally and provincially regulated transmission line and pipeline projects. Some of the projects that Mr. Bryant has worked on include the Alliance Pipeline, the Corridor Pipeline and its expansion, the Anchor Loop and other expansion projects for Kinder Morgan Canada, SemCAMS' Borealis Pipeline Project and, most recently, several projects for ATCO Electric Ltd. Mr. Bryant was also the lead author of the 3rd Edition of Pipeline Associated Watercourse Crossings. He has provided expert testimony before the NEB on one occasion.
Todd Moss, B.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Todd Moss is a Senior Environmental Planner and Principal with over 18 years of professional consulting experience and has prepared all aspects of environmental impact assessment and environmental mitigation planning for various levels of provincial and federal applications. Mr. Moss has extensive experience preparing ESAs for Section 58 and 52 NEB projects in western Canada. In addition, he has been Project Advisor and Manager for NEB-regulated pipeline projects throughout Alberta and BC as well as a variety of facility applications and operations and maintenance programs across Canada. His areas of expertise include project management (multi-disciplinary team co ordination), ESAs for NEB applications, routing and environmental protection planning, Canadian Environmental Assessment (CEA) Act-screened Environmental Assessments, Alberta Environment (AENV) C&R applications and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (ASRD) EFRs.
Mr. Moss has provided expert testimony before the NEB on one occasion. Recently, Mr. Moss has been primarily involved in projects in northeastern BC and northwestern Alberta. He has worked on several 300+ km projects and has a thorough understanding of the variety of environmental issues that have a direct impact on cost and schedule.
Lois Pittaway, M.E.Des., P.Biol., RPBio
Director & Senior Wildlife Biologist
Lois Pittaway has expertise in environmental planning and assessment for various development applications (well sites, pipelines, powerlines, Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage, wind turbines, etc.), as well as wildlife research and restoration. She has worked on numerous projects throughout western Canada, particularly in Alberta's Eastern Slopes, the northern mountains of BC, and woodland caribou ranges in Alberta and BC. Areas of special interest include the design and implementation of biophysical baseline studies, habitat mapping, conservation planning, habitat connectivity and wildlife habitat restoration. Recent research includes studying the effectiveness of the recommended setback distance for Sprague's pipit related to pipeline construction. Examples of other projects include: Wildlife Corridor and Habitat Patch Guidelines for the Bow Valley; the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area Heliportable Drilling Feasibility Study; Worker Orientation Guide for the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area; the Little Smoky Caribou Calf Project; and Caribou Habitat Restoration Planning. Ms. Pittaway manages wildlife studies, planning and mitigation for federal and provincial regulatory applications.
Andrew Povey, B.Sc., B.Tech.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Andrew Povey has worked with TERA since 1999 and has gained experience on provincially and federally-regulated projects in Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories. He has experience in many aspects of oil and gas projects including: feasibility studies; route and facility site selection; environmental studies; impact assessment; protection planning and permitting. Recently, Mr. Povey has been primarily involved in projects in northeastern BC. Mr. Povey was the Project Manager for the preparation of the ESA for the Westcoast Energy Inc. South Peace Pipeline Project, an NEB Section 52 application, which included a requirement for expert witness testimony before the NEB.
Mr. Povey has also managed the preparation of numerous ESAs for NEB Section 58 applications for projects including small meter stations, new and looped pipelines and several large gas plants. He is currently actively involved with a number of NEB-regulated projects being undertaken by Westcoast Energy Inc. and Alliance Pipelines Limited. Previously, Mr. Povey has worked on EFRs, Caribou Protection Plans, Area Operating Agreements, Conservation and Reclamation Reports and Environmental Protection Plans. He was also involved in the Mackenzie Gas Project, for which he was the designated lead for nontraditional land and resource use and research licensing. He has provided expert testimony before the NEB on two occasions.
Jason Smith M.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Jason K. Smith has worked in the environmental consulting industry for over 10 years. He specializes in NEB-regulated pipeline projects and has completed numerous environmental assessments for work in parks and protected areas. He has served as project manager and provided strategic regulatory advice and program co-ordination on several provincially and federally-regulated pipelines, including high profile projects such as the Alaska Pipeline Project, Kinder Morgan Canada's TMX - Anchor Loop Project and the Georgia Strait Crossing Pipeline Project.
Wanda Lewis
Director & Heritage Resource Management Specialist
Wanda Lewis has over 11 years of experience in heritage resource and traditional land use management. She specializes in the management of historical resource studies for pipelines and oil and gas projects in western Canada and has assisted numerous clients in the areas of Aboriginal Engagement, Traditional Land Use and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Ms. Lewis has established effective working relationships with many of the Aboriginal groups in Alberta and northeastern BC.
Orrin Dell, B.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Orrin Dell is a Senior Environmental Planner and has acted as Project Manager on numerous environmental applications for seismic activities, drilling operations, pipeline installations as well as powerline projects throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Mr. Dell effectively manages his projects by relying on his experience with site and route selection, being a liaison between government and industry as well as his previous oil and gas operations experience and agricultural background. Mr. Dell has significant experience consulting with key stakeholders, regulators and landowners. His farm and agricultural background provides Mr. Dell with a good understanding of the issues related to industrial development on agricultural land as well as landowner and stakeholder concerns.
Mark Van Wyk, M.E.Des.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Mark Van Wyk has managed predevelopment assessment work for more than 3,500 oil and gas lease sites and associated pipelines for infill drilling projects largely located in the sensitive prairie region of southeastern Alberta. More recently, Mr. Van Wyk has directed multidisciplinary teams for numerous provincially regulated 240 kV and 138 kV electrical transmission projects, primarily related to wind power facility developments. With an appreciation for the complexities involved in managing large energy-sector projects and the potential ecosystem impacts, Mr. Van Wyk has become an effective problem-solver and has applied his knowledge to successfully manage routing/siting assessments, mitigation design, stakeholder engagement programs and supporting biophysical field assessments.
Kerry Brewin, M.Sc., P.Biol
Director & Senior Fish Biologist
Kerry Brewin is a Senior Fish Biologist with over 24 years of aquatic resource management experience in western Canada and the Territories and leads the Aquatics team at TERA. Mr. Brewin specializes in providing aquatic environmental and regulatory support on pipeline and other linear development projects. Recent pipeline projects in western Canada that Mr. Brewin has provided senior technical and regulatory support for include the North Central Corridor, Horn River Mainline, Groundbirch Mainline, Alberta Oil Sands, Mitsue Condensate, and Nipisi Heavy Oil, pipeline projects. Before re-entering the consulting industry in 2003, Mr. Brewin spent several years as the senior staff person responsible for leading Trout Unlimited Canada's conservation activities across Alberta. While there, he designed and implemented several provincial and national award winning conservation programs (e.g., Alberta Emerald Award and Special Minister's Order of the Bighorn Award). In 2005 he received the Alberta Centennial Award for his efforts in conserving Alberta's coldwater fishery resources.
Tammy MacMillan, B.Sc., P.Biol.
Director & Senior Wildlife Biologist
Tammy MacMillan is a Senior Wildlife Biologist for southern Alberta and is responsible for the operations and management of TERA's Hanna office. Ms. MacMillan has conducted biophysical studies throughout Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories, and has been the lead Wildlife Biologist on numerous general and species-specific wildlife surveys in the Grasslands regions of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ms. MacMillan has extensive experience assessing and mitigating sensitive wildlife habitat, and has prepared all aspects of environmental impact assessment and environmental mitigation planning for Canadian Environmental Assessment (CEA) Act Screenings, C&R Applications, Alberta ERCB Applications, Alberta Utilities Commission Applications, EFRs, Environmental Protection Plans and Overviews.
Joanne Berezan, B.Sc.
Director & Senior Environmental Planner
Joanne Berezan has extensive experience preparing environmental and socio-economic assessments for NEB projects in western Canada. She has been a project manager for several NEB regulated pipeline projects throughout Alberta, as well as for a variety of facility applications and operations and maintenance programs across Canada. Ms. Berezan is familiar with both environmental impact assessment planning and the regulatory process for various levels of provincial and federal applications. Recent project involvement includes the NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. Horn River Mainline Project, Enbridge Southern Lights and Alberta Clipper Projects as well as several NEB Section 58 Applications.
Amy Griffiths, B.Sc., P.Biol
Director & Vegetation Specialist
Ms. Griffiths leads TERA’s team of highly qualified, sought-after vegetation specialists and is responsible for vegetation study design and quality assurance. She is a botanist and QWAES who has conducted numerous rare plant, vegetation and wetland surveys throughout Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ms. Griffiths employs her extensive experience in assessing and mitigating rare plant populations, rare ecological communities and sensitive vegetation by contributing to environmental impact assessment and environmental mitigation planning for NEB Applications, C&R Applications, Alberta ERCB Applications, AUC Applications, EFRs, EPPs and Environmental Overviews. She also served as Project Manager and conducted mapping on the Grassland Vegetation Inventory (GVI) project conducted for Alberta SRD. Ms. Griffiths was an expert witness at an AUC hearing in support of AltaLink for the Hansman Lake Transmission Development project.
Joanne Mauthner, M.Sc.
Director & Senior Wetland Scientist
Joanne Mauthner is a Hydrologist and Senior Wetland Scientist at TERA. Ms. Mauthner expertise is with water resource issues and specializes in wetlands and wetland related issues specifically in the Oil and Gas Industry. She has been the primary author of wetland technical reports and wetland function assessments for numerous provincial and federally-regulated projects. Ms. Mauthner leads a team of qualified wetland specialists comprised of vegetation, wildlife, hydrology and soils experts. She works closely with regulators and wetland restoration agencies and has experience conducting wetland classifications, delineations, health and function assessments and post-construction monitoring programs throughout western Canada.
