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Projects: Expert Witness
Environmental Hearings and Review Panels
Mr. Dickins has participated
in numerous environmental hearings, workshops and community meetings
as an expert witness, providing testimony and opinions on major development
projects (valued individually at billions of dollars). Examples include:
Cross Cascades Pipeline Application, 1996-99
Mr. Dickins acted as the
engineering advisor to counsel representing a long established Pacific
Northwest barge line opposing an application to build a new pipeline
through a pristine
wilderness area. Work involved preparing briefs, and undergoing cross
examination on prepared testimony before the Federal Site Evaluation
Council (FSEC)
charged with granting permits on a project which would have affected
the entire distribution of oil supplies in the Pacific Northwest
(WA and Oregon).
Voisey's Bay Mineral Development, 1996-98
David Dickins prepared supporting
evidence, wrote key chapters of the Environmental Assessment and
presented expert witness testimony before the Environmental Review
Panel into the proposed development of the largest new nickel deposit
in the world (acting
for the proponents).
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Offshore Drilling in the Beaufort Sea, 1990-92
Mr. Dickins provided expert
testimony before the Native Environmental Review Board at hearings
held in two NWT native communities to examine the possible impacts
of a spill
associated with proposed new drilling programs (acting on behalf
of the proponents). |
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Hydrocarbon Development in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, 1979-80
David Dickins
evaluated arctic shipping routes, which would have been used by tankers
taking the oil to worldwide markets in Japan and Europe. He provided
expert testimony on the environmental impacts of tanker traffic in
ice at hearings
held in affected native communities (acting on behalf of the proponents).
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