Katie McKinnon is a specialist in senior stakeholder engagement and regulatory affairs with TERA Environmental

“I joined four years ago more for my own personal interest and involvement. I became a member of the Calgary Chamber’s environmental committee. We meet once a month to stay on top of environment and natural resource-based issues, and have a strategic planning session once a year to see how some of these issues can be addressed by policy makers. The neat things about the committee is that it’s an opportunity to sometimes role up your sleeves and be part of some of the position papers that are being put forward by the Chamber. For instance, last year the Chamber was asked to provide input into the government’s review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, so there was the opportunity to have a few meetings offline to help put together the chamber’s position. The ideas germinated within the Chamber have heavily influenced the government. In fact, they’ve adopted all of the recommendations in that paper and they’ve signaled that they will be moving in the direction we suggested. It was neat to have been a part of that process.”

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